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Sy Andrews 🇬🇧🇨🇦

@syandrews.bsky.social

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Writer, Esoteric, a Brit in Canada, Autistic. Avid reader, Blerd, Coffee lover, Dice Elf, Essayist, Published poet, and Vlogger. 🌻♾️✨ 📍 Toronto 💍 Married to my bestie! 🚫 DMs

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Sy Andrews 🇬🇧🇨🇦 @syandrews.bsky.social · 5d

8 pages written. Powered through for the last hour and a half. I’m good.

Bedtime now.

Sy Andrews 🇬🇧🇨🇦 @syandrews.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve been on such a health kick of late, just updating and upgrading my routines - still not absolutely perfect but definitely way better. I haven’t touched a bag of Lays in months.

I had one just now. It didn’t hit like I’d hoped. I think I’m low on riboflavin. 😔

Sy Andrews 🇬🇧🇨🇦 @syandrews.bsky.social · 6d

Very much so 😭😭😭

Sy Andrews 🇬🇧🇨🇦 @syandrews.bsky.social · 6d

😭😭😭

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Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social · 6d

About that strange little man from Santa Monica.

www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-weird-stephen-miller

Brief: “Weird Stephen” Miller — Conspirituality

Stephen Miller is once again making headlines for saying the quiet part out loud. Derek and Julian look into this strange little man from Santa Monica.

www.conspirituality.net

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Here Lies The Late and Bitey Boo @ndrichter.bsky.social · 6d

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Sy Andrews 🇬🇧🇨🇦 @syandrews.bsky.social · 6d

NO 😭😭😭🤍🕊️

RIP Baek Se-hee. Your words were so powerful. You will be sorely missed. #booksky

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Sy Andrews 🇬🇧🇨🇦 @syandrews.bsky.social · 6d

6:18am. Morning pages, topic: audiobooks

Modern storytelling based on actual (oral) storytelling from before the stories were written down. [must edit or rewrite when updating commonplace book].

Sy Andrews 🇬🇧🇨🇦 @syandrews.bsky.social · 11d

A really brilliant episode on RSD (Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria).

I have RSD and I’m learning how to cope. It’s strange as I’d only learned about it after dx and in therapy. Thought I’d share as I’m still figuring things out.
#audhd #podcasts

youtu.be/n8r9YuvTg2k?...

ADHD and RSD: why rejection feels like danger | E18 | WTF is AuDHD? Podcast

YouTube video by WTF is AuDHD?

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Sy Andrews 🇬🇧🇨🇦 @syandrews.bsky.social · 14d

Trying these two chocolates, finally, for the first time. I’ve recently learned about Laura Secord, too. She’s known for much more than chocolate 🍫 #canadalife

Sy Andrews 🇬🇧🇨🇦 @syandrews.bsky.social · 15d

I have to beg my husband to say one swear word properly. He won’t 🤣🥰

Sy Andrews 🇬🇧🇨🇦 @syandrews.bsky.social · 15d

One thing I absolutely love as a Brit living in Canada is hearing Canadians swear. It’s lovely. They hold back so hard all day that it’s like sweet morning dew misting on my ears when they finally let it out.

(Sorry about that terrible imagery…)

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MLB (Bot) @mlbbot.bsky.social · 15d

ALDS ✅
ALCS 🔜

The @BlueJays take care of business in New York! #CLINCHED

A quad photo of the Blue Jays celebration:
(Top left) Vladimir Guerrero Jr. throws up peace signs while partying in a black ALCS shirt
(Top right) George Springer gets doused in Champagne while shirtless
(Bottom left) Max Scherzer holds beers while partying in a black ALCS shirt
(bottom right) Addison Barger and Davis Schneider spray Champagne while partying in black ALCS shirts

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MLB (Bot) @mlbbot.bsky.social · 15d

The French call of the @BlueJays clinching their trip to the ALCS 💙

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MLB (Bot) @mlbbot.bsky.social · 15d

It's party time for Toronto 😤 #ALCS

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MLB Scores @mlbscores.bsky.social · 15d

Final:
BlueJays 5
Yankees 2

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Sy Andrews 🇬🇧🇨🇦 @syandrews.bsky.social · 15d

Also, the Blue Jays won!!!

🩵💙

Sy Andrews 🇬🇧🇨🇦 @syandrews.bsky.social · 15d

1Q84 + Infinite Jest #tattoos 🙌🏾 they were years in planning.

I love these books an awful lot.
#InfiniteJest #1Q84 #HarukiMurakami #DavidFosterWallace

Sy Andrews 🇬🇧🇨🇦 @syandrews.bsky.social · 15d

Hmm 🤔 what other literary tattoos should I get…

I know I want an Emily Dickinson tattoo (or 2), another Shakespeare… possibly a reference to Süskind’s ‘Perfume’… I need to look at my list.

(I’ll share what I got the day before, next!) #books #tattoos

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 18d

Isabelle Baafi’s Chaotic Good (Faber), Paul Farley’s When It Rained for a Million Years (Picador Poetry) and Vona Groarke’s Infinity Pool (The Gallery Press) have been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize 👇 #BookSky

Isabelle Baafi, Paul Farley and Vona Groarke shortlisted for TS Eliot Prize 2025

ebx.sh

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Sy Andrews 🇬🇧🇨🇦 @syandrews.bsky.social · 19d

Here’s a handy video: youtu.be/3S0UqpEuE8Q?...

Why So Many AuDHD Adults Feel Broken (What Shame Does to Autistic + ADHD Adults)

YouTube video by AuDHD Hub

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Sy Andrews 🇬🇧🇨🇦 @syandrews.bsky.social · 19d

It’s one of the contradictions for being autistic. So much is expected of you and yet you’re punished.

Sy Andrews 🇬🇧🇨🇦 @syandrews.bsky.social · 19d

All sorts, especially when you’re masking heavily. From “being great with customers”, having creative ideas, setting up great plans, knowing/being passionate about subject ABC, to “thinking logically” and so on. All praised when needed, and then later admonished and punished if not done correctly.

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Sy Andrews 🇬🇧🇨🇦 @syandrews.bsky.social · 19d

The positive traits that are praised are the same traits that get punished.

Do you find that? It’s a form of shame, especially if you’re autistic in the world.

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Sy Andrews 🇬🇧🇨🇦 @syandrews.bsky.social · 19d

If I’m not speaking with customers I spend the majority of my days totally alone. I’m embracing this quietude day by day and it’s surprisingly nice. I’m unable to learn new things or apply myself in the way I would like but I’m able to think of ways to fix potholes in my creative work 🌻