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Hi! My name is Kenneth Udut. I am a 4th year student in my final semester. My degree will be in Religion and Cultural Studies with a minor in Cognitive Science. Cognitive Science is my first love – the one thing that brings together so many things that interest me – and so I’m glad to be able to get some recognition of that fact with this minor.  I live in the woods with 9-15 people in Collier County, FL (in a regular house – all family and inlaws) and it’s my 3rd time in college. 35 years ago at Hampshire College (theoretical physics or development psychology), 25 years ago at a community college in NJ (middle-school-teacher, special ed was the goal), then I got an AA at FSCJ in 2024 and at UCF since towards a BA.  The ways I’ve made money never matched my life interests but that’s ok as long as there’s something about it you don’t mind. As I was born with hearing and vision difficulties as well as executive dysfunction, anxiety and difficulty processing inferred meaning, learning the mechanisms of communication is useful to me at many levels, for that which doesn’t come naturally to me (such as social cues), I can learn to instead understand on a slower reasoning basis, learning how the parts come together both physically and socially.

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As someone who had a stutter and was helped by a speech language pathologist when I was 8 years old, I’d always had it that in the back of my mind as a career. She taught me to create a little space in my mind where I could let the words settle for a moment and sort themselves out before talking. It was like learning magic and I never forgot.

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My name is Ken. I am virtually looking around and surprised to be here. I never know where I’m going to be, and suddenly I find myself where I am. I’m currently a Religion and Cultural Studies major, minoring in Cognitive Science. I’m interested in how people make meaning and understand themselves within different religious and cultural systems. Much of my curiosity comes from introspection, which I try to connect to broader areas of knowledge. I expect this process here will be a fascinating challenge, especially as I shift from an introspective, self-questioning focus toward the specific needs of a research project. 

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I find things to distract myself. Mirror. Brush teeth. Brush hair. Mouthwash. Do maintenance stuff to keep mind off things. Trim nails. Do simple exercises. Walk around in a circle muttering new invented languages to yourself. Laugh at the absurdity of yourself. Imagine yourself floating off and coming back and that it’s all normal and ok to come back. Drink water with slow sips. Learn how to lucid dream (there’s lessons out there) so that you can control your own dreams which can help. Learn breathing techniques and use them. Tense and release the muscles in your body starting at your toes and working up to your head, or back to front. Remind yourself that it’s ok to have catostrophic thoughts and that you can watch them pass by in you head if you let them go. Acknowledge them and let them float off.

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