Weird People Started The art of self-aweirdness

By Canute B White

This book was written to introduce a concept called self-aweirdness and how it can contribute to social acceptance and happinesss in your life. It is about owning your weirdness by being comfortable and accepting that you are weird - even a little weird. The book should be used as a self-therapeutic tool to take you to a higher level of self-cons

• Language: English
• Publisher: Canute's Enterprise
• Release date: Oct 4, 2020
• ISBN: 9781087917351

Canute B White

The author may be a little weird to have coined the term self-aweirdness. Well, he is a psychologist and an educator with a MSc in Counseling Psychology. He was born in one of Jamaica's poorest communities and had served in his country's military before becoming dean of student discipline at a high school and director of behaviorial management at a community college.

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Born Without Weirdness?

John Locke’s Tabula Rasa – The unblemished You. So, how did you become so…?

One of the most fascinating concepts I have learned as a student of psychology was that I was born as a clean slate. It didn’t take long to understand what the concept had meant as I remembered using my first slate in kindergarten.  A slate was like a mini blackboard, also called chalkboard, that teachers used in the classrooms. Many of these blackboards have become whiteboards for health reasons. Teachers would use white markers on the whiteboards and dusty chalks on the blackboards. If you were living with respiratory disease, then you would understand the challenge. However, the slate was a personal, portable blackboard that could have been kept in the book bag. It was usually the size of the composition book.  The student would use slate pencils to write on the slate and water to erase its