Most people encounter Apollo and Dionysus through Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy, where they serve as shorthand for the duality between order and chaos, logic and feeling, the Apollonian dream and the Dionysian frenzy. Nietzsche argued that great art, and by extension great living, holds both without letting either win.

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The following is a selective and personal collection of media recommendations that I have found worth revisiting in my lifetime. List items appear in no particular order other than that in which they were recalled from memory.

The trope goes, “how do you know if someone is neurodivergent? They’ll tell you.” Yet, if we ever met IRL, there’s only a 0.6% chance that I would have told you I’m autistic because for the remaining 99.4% of my life, I just didn’t know. As it turns out, I’ve been trying to make sense of the world around me with physiology not suited to the majority of it.