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POPSHow Homophobia Hurts Us All It hurts me that my own Mother wouldn't love me if she knew I was bisexual, but it also helps me to know that through it all some people can love me for who I am. My husband, my youngest daughter, my very best friends, and the support at CM.
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POPSBallroom Madness We need to bring back art into education and this is the perfect solution instilling creativity, respect, and self-awareness as well as health benefits and not to mention FUN in children! Please donate and help out!
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POPS there is a relationship (genetic or otherwise) between autism and genius "for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential. The essential ingredient may be an ability to turn away from the everyday world, from the simply practical and to rethink a subject with originality so as to create in new untrodden ways with all abilities canalised into the one specialty." According to psychologist and autism specialist Dr Tony Attwood, from Griffith University
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POPSWhy the pursuit of happiness naturally includes melancholy "Obviously that opening is a bit hyperbolic for rhetorical effect. I will admit that. But it is, at the same time, a kind of expression of real danger. I think that being melancholy is an essential part of being a human being. I think to be a fully expressed human being you must be willing to delve into melancholy as much as into joy. If we try too hard to get rid of that melancholy it's almost like we're settling for a half-life."