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✨ ADN Hits 200: Because Apparently I Can’t Stop Talking About The 00s ✨
A fun-and-cheeky milestone from your resident nostalgia queen 💅💖 Remember when I said, “I’ll just start a cute little nostalgia blog — y’know, for fun”?Fast-forward 200 posts later and here we are — still overanalysing S Club lyrics, still emotionally invested in CBBC competitions from 2004, and still drinking Pepsi Max like it’s a creative Read more
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💌 Parasocial Crushes: My First Love Wasn’t Real (and That’s Okay)
Asten Does Nostalgia • 27 August 2025 When I look back at my teenage years, one of the things that makes me cringe the most is the intensity of my parasocial crushes. You know the type — the popstar on your bedroom wall, the TV character who felt like they “got” you, the safe obsession Read more
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🎃 ADN’s Fear Files: The Dread of Saying My Own Name
There are many things I feared as a child: balloons, certain adverts, and people in giant costumes. But one fear that never quite left me? Saying my own name. Sounds ridiculous, right? But hear me out. For as long as I can remember, I’ve felt a weird, cringey discomfort around having to introduce myself out Read more
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Goosebumps, Guitars, and Girlhood: My Body Remembers the Disney Channel Era
You know that moment when you’re just vibing, minding your business, and then an old Disney Channel bop hits different — and suddenly you’ve got goosebumps on your arms and tears threatening to form because WHY does this slap so hard? Yeah. That. I got goosebumps the other day from a song that used to Read more
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Apparently My Whole Personality Was Autism?
I was told I was autistic at age nine (diagnosed at four, but I wouldn’t have understood then). And yet… AND YET… there are still things I’m only now looking back on and thinking, “Wait… that was autism?” Because I did a lot of quirky things as a kid. Here’s my list of things that Read more
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So What Is This Anyway?
Hi, I’m Asten!If you don’t know me, I’m currently 32 (although I level up on 3rd September 🎂), I live in the UK, and I’m autistic and disabled (part-time wheelchair user, full-time chaos gremlin). As a girl who grew up in the 00s (or the Noughties, as people insist on calling them), I’m a little Read more
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