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Frieda grosgean

@bernaharbor.bsky.social

Psychiatrist and accordionist. Retired from UCLA. Autistic & ND advocate. Books addict and book writing.

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I Didn’t Want to Have Kids. My Husband Did. Could Our Marriage Survive?

Follow up on #HelenadeGroot 's podcast with her great interview with the NYT (gift article- audio) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/p...

25.02.2026 15:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Personally: Creation Myth Listen to Personally: Creation Myth

I know there are many Podcasts to choose from, this one is from my very dear friend Helena de Groot Iit is about life, in particular about having kids or not. It is moving, funny, loving, brilliant...unique....so check it on this link "Creation Myth" 1: Nothing Complicated link.mgln.ai/7GHhUX

10.02.2026 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sound designer Helena de Groot on the unglamorous parts of creative practice – The Creative Independent Audio creator and sound designer Helena de Groot discusses asking difficult questions, paying attention to the banal, and finally doing The Thing

Sound designer Helena de Groot on the unglamorous parts of creative practice

thecreativeindependent.com/people/sound...

07.08.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œ how to get better at taking in the horrors of the world”, this is a personal and frank question posed by Helena de Groot, in the opening seconds of this podcast. I’ve revisited this episode a few times since October, and I’m sure I will a few times more in the future.

31.01.2025 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Poets We Lost in 2024 Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

I got to talk about Helenβ€”as a teacher, colleague, and friendβ€”on the podcast Poetry Off the Shelf; many thanks to Helena de Groot for this marvelous episode on HV and Marjorie Perloff: www.poetryfoundation.org/audio/164604...

29.01.2025 05:15 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE

Aliya Rahman is a Minneapolis resident who is autistic and physically disabled. She describes admirably the ongoing traumatizing indiscriminate abuse of power existing currently in the US. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrcW... #autism #disability #trauma

05.02.2026 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

Be aware....via Palantir and Cie...(free article- read it, it is about freedom...literally www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...

02.02.2026 04:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

reading some of your blogs..(right now about momtropism and time perception etc ) Wow....I am so thankful I found your writing so brilliant Thank you!

01.02.2026 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations! I just bought it Thank you. Loved your talk :)

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My cultural awakening: A Queen song helped me break free from communist Cuba Listening to Brian May’s multi-tracked epic on a battered cassette player when I lived in repressive Havana inspired lit a spark of rebellion inside me

My cultural awakening: A Queen song helped me break free from communist Cuba

24.01.2026 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4
Biosecurity

Biosecurity

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Europe’s generals are warning people to prepare for war But western European societies are in denial

European governments are beginning to respond to warnings about the possibility of a war with Russia. But few of the continent’s western countries have anything comparable to the war readiness of the Nordics, Baltics and Poland

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β€˜We want people to sit, pause, relax’: National Trust to open its libraries for public use Charity plans to make stately homes more welcoming by inviting visitors to use furniture and reading rooms

β€˜We want people to sit, pause, relax’: National Trust to open its libraries for public use

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Trump officials celebrated with cake after slashing aid. Then people died of cholera. ProPublica uncovered that after USAID funding cuts, cases of cholera in South Sudan spiked.

A cast of Trump’s lesser-known political appointees and DOGE operatives cut programs in ways that guaranteed widespread harm and death in some of the world’s most desperate situations.

From our friends at @propublica.org:

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One predicaments Julia touches on here: IDEA remains an unfulfilled promise, the government has never fully funded it. And yet, it is constantly under assault. So advocates are always torn between defending the status quo and wanting to grow it.

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u r very welcome :)

30.11.2025 06:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One day I’ll write a book about how Systems are killing #doctors. Good, conscientious, caring doctors. Destroying their souls & bodies. In 2 decades they will be all gone, replaced by machines & a few humans w just enough training to do what machines & admin will ask them to do.Heartbreaking

21.11.2025 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you so much for all your work :)

07.11.2025 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I know right....:)

07.11.2025 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Medicaid Cut Me Off’: A Rural Health Center Faces New Pressures

We are driving straight to the wall of an incredible tragedy regarding access to medical care....what a shame, first abroad and now here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/h...

23.10.2025 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

what about women? :)

23.10.2025 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, fuck yeah.

18.10.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Me and My House . . ., by James Baldwin In this searching portrait of his father and himselfβ€”the author of Go Tell It on the Mountain and of the forthcoming Notes of a Native Sun, explores some depths of the human condition.

Reading the superb new Biography of #JamesBaldwin by #NicholasBoggs I just "side-read" Baldwin's powerful 1955 Essay. No words really but his... harpers.org/archive/1955...

18.10.2025 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sue Goldie Has Parkinson’s Disease (Gift Article) An acclaimed researcher is an expert at explaining complicated problems. Now she has to confront the most vexing question: What is happening to her?

What an extraordinary human being... learning, giving, sharing and fighting until no longer able to. #parkinson Thank you Dr Sue Goldie. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

14.10.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Acetaminophen Claims Obscure True Issues Facing Autistic Patients | Psychiatric News PsychiatryOnline.org is the platform for all American Psychiatric Association Publishing journals, DSM, and bestselling textbooks, as well as APA Practice Guidelines, and continuing medical education.

Thankful to Linda Richmond and my colleagues Dr Katie Unverferth and Dr Stacy Greeter to collaborate and help with these important clarifications #autism #chronicpain "Acetaminophen Claims Obscure True Issues Facing Autistic Patients" | Psychiatric News www.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...

08.10.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
"Working Together." Bernadette Grosjean MD. 14th Autism Europe Congress. Dublin September 2025.
YouTube video by bernadette grosjean "Working Together." Bernadette Grosjean MD. 14th Autism Europe Congress. Dublin September 2025.

Thankful I could share my insider perspectives πŸ™β€Working together. How what I learned as an autistic psychiatrist enables me to be an advocate inside a profession known for its resistance to change" #neurodiversity #AutismEuropeCongress #AsIAm #autism .
m.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Ti...

08.10.2025 12:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜I think you’re testing me’: Anthropic’s new AI model asks testers to come clean Safety evaluation of Claude Sonnet 4.5 raises questions about whether predecessors β€˜played along’, firm says If you are trying to catch out a chatbot take care, because one cutting-edge tool is showing signs it knows what you are up to. Anthropic, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company, has released a safety analysis of its latest model, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and revealed it had become suspicious it was being tested in some way. Continue reading...

β€˜I think you’re testing me’: Anthropic’s new AI model asks testers to come clean

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A Surprising Cause Of Endometriosis Could Lead To Cure Podcast Episode Β· Short Wave Β· 09/26/2025 Β· 13m

Important podcast about endometriosis (its auto immune potential link)- a problem that touches 10% of women (& autistic women being overrepresented) who experience lifelong pain and disability because of it, & yet it represented 0.03% of NIH 2024 research budget podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Harvard Dean Was Paid $150,000 as an Expert Witness in Tylenol Lawsuits

A.Wakefield falsified a Lancet paper about vaccine & autism & $$ expert in linked litigation is responsible for preventable death & pain from polio&measles A. Baccarelli sharing the spot of corrupted β€œ$$expert” increasing the general pain level in this world #autism www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/h...

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done

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