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Is it a disorder, or just shyness? | Highly Sensitive: May 10, 6:10pm 1 review health
http://highlysensitive.org/is-it-a-disorder-or-just-shyness/; From the page: "Many of us were shy as children, and continue to be. In more extreme versions, it may be labeled social phobia or social anxiety disorder, but maybe it is usually a personality trait, related to introversion and high sensitivity. A number of psychologists and others argue that shyness can be viewed as an ordinary variation in personality, and should not be pathologized or treated as a medical condition to be overcome."

Women and Talent: Mar 31, 6:28pm 1 review self-improvement
http://womenandtalent.com/jenny-mccarthy-on-motherhood-and-guilt/; Jenny McCarthy was a guest on the Oprah and Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth Online Class. She spoke about her complex emotional reactions in raising her autistic son Evan.

Women and Talent: Mar 30, 3:57pm 1 review psychology
http://womenandtalent.com/ambition-and-power-its-complicated/; "She was a woman of charm, style and wit, and will and savagery." That is a description of Anne Boleyn by author Susan Brigden. Natalie Portman portrays Anne in The Other Boleyn Girl, and says she saw the film as "a cautionary tale about capitalism. All of the characters who subscribe to these values of rising up and gaining power and who will step on anyone to get there are punished... I think it's very different to be ambitious and to be ruthlessly ambitious.." Asked about her own independence and ambition, she says, "It's definitely complicated. I bury it a lot."

Nerds endure and create even without support | High Ability: Feb 15, 10:43pm 1 review psychology
http://highability.org/nerds-endure-and-create-even-without-support/; Being different, an outsider, and called by others a nerd or other names, can be upsetting to downright painful when we were kids, but how does that kind of label impact our adult identity, and what does it indicate about social attitudes toward creatively and intellectually exceptional people?