Life Less Ordinary

After I Lost My Husband To Dementia At 51, I Retrained To Research And End The Disease

Every day I'm determined to ensure other families don’t have to go through the years of anguish I went through with Clive
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After Surviving Addiction And Homelessness, Giving Back To Others Helped Me Achieve A Normality I Never Thought Possible

I moved from Northern Ireland to London to leave my chemical demons behind but found purpose in helping others
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1MDB: What Happened When I Exposed The World's Biggest Financial Scandal

Stalking, death threats and numerous criminal charges: My investigation into environmental corruption quickly became the unravelling of the Malaysian government — at great personal cost
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What I Learned From Serving Eighteen Years On Death Row For Three Murders I Didn't Commit

Since I’ve been out of prison, I live in terror every single day. I’m scared of everything, all the time. But I’m trying to fight my way through it
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I Became A Boxing Champion After Serving Four Prison Sentences

I’m often asked what I’ve learned doing my time in jail. The answer? It's not worth it
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As A Teen Runaway, My Friends Helped Me Find Home

As kids living in dysfunction, we had no choice but to stick together, to witness each other’s abnormalities without judgement, to accept each other without demanding any change
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Life After My Amputation Has Shown Me That No Matter How Bad It Gets, Amazing Things Can Always Happen

I am disabled and that won’t change. But I can change society’s stereotype of an amputee.
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I Jumped Into Freezing Cold Water Daily To Help Me Deal With My Husband's Diagnosis

Each time I got into the cold water, I felt there was a mental process I was overcoming and that’s the addictive part of it
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Fishing Has Taken Me To The Ends Of The Earth, Immersing Me Into A Fishes' Realm

I quietly, weightlessly, drift in the aquatic space, watching fish and the aquatic environment interact with each other
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I've Had Selective Mutism For 20 Years And Can Go Days Without Saying A Word

It is not my whole identity, it does not define me, it is just an element of me
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About Life Less Ordinary
Life Less Ordinary is a weekly blog series from HuffPost UK that showcases weird and wonderful life experiences. If you’ve got something extraordinary to share please email ukblogteam@huffpost.com with LLO in the subject line