Have you also noticed how the moment you learn a new word or stumble upon a fresh idea, it suddenly starts popping up everywhere? Or how once you settle on a car, letโs say a red Datsun or a silver VW, it feels like the roads are flooded with them? Like someone’s set a goblin to spy on you?
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๐ซ๐๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ง๐๐ฒ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง. To be fancy and sound learned, call it the Baader Meinhof Phenomenon. And trust me, it is not just curious. It is powerful.
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Digital companies and their algorithms do not just learn from you. They anticipate you, and even influence you. Type something like โsensory toys for autismโ or โoutdoor activities near Hastings on a budget,โ and your entire digital world tilts toward that interest. Suddenly, even King Ginger videos on YouTube are interrupted by soft-play ads.
Instagram shows you reels of sensory play ideas. Facebook drops ads like confetti. Even that harmless recipe blog suddenly has a sidebar offering โmust-have sensory kits.โ It feels like the whole world has joined your wavelength.
But that is not a coincidence. It is calculated. The goal is to make the products feel relevant, the trend feel urgent, the solution feel universal. Like you’re suddenly slow in adapting to this very important thing you never cared about. So, you are nudged, quietly but consistently, toward buying in.
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Here is where it gets interesting. The illusion is not just digital. It is deeply psychological. Your brain filters reality based on what it believes matters. What you think becomes what you see, more and more.
When you are buried in the intensity of special needs parenting, work and future demands, emotional fatigue, and a to-do list that sneers back at you, hope can feel distant. Solutions can feel invisible.
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When I stopped obsessing over being stuck and started preparing for what might be next, things began to move. Not in leaps. In nudges. I became more attuned to quiet opportunities. Conversations that lead to something. Articles that open minds and doors. People who could help, even just by understanding.
This is not law-of-attraction fluff. It is neurobiology. When you decide to notice something, your mind will amplify it.
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๐จ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ on healing and you will see signs of recovery.
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๐จ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ on injustice and you will see cracks in every system.
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๐จ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ on hope and you will notice the light again, even in unlikely places.
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I have watched this play out again and again. In building Readapeutic.blog. In working on my soon-to-launch book The ‘Unseen Battles; A raw walk through special needs parenting and everything that comes with it’. In finding ways to turn exhaustion into insight and chaos into direction.
The breakthrough was not always outside me. Most times, it came from choosing what to see, at least, what to see first.
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Digital marketers use the Frequency Illusion to sell you things. You can use it to steer your mind. Reframe your attention. Rediscover direction.
What you focus on will show up more.
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Your mind is not just a mirror. It is a magnifier.
