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Our Favorite Stories About Adjusting to New Norms

This week’s digest of stories from Medium universe is all about the (sometimes awkward) difficulties of coping with change

Each week on Medium Rare, I’ll be sharing stories you might have missed that are definitely worth a second look. Got a suggestion for a piece we should feature? Pop it in the responses below!

• There are 10 types of people on Zoom calls, and Maria-Lucilia Gorre has an illustrated GIF for every awkward remote meeting archetype. As always, I’m That Person with too many tabs open, but hell, by the end of this social distancing era, maybe we’ll all come together as people who don’t bother to wear pants.
• “A pandemic is a life-altering event,” Jessica Wildfire writes, and sometimes the only way to process our new horrible reality is through GIFs of Kristen Ritter. Take, for example, TFW you didn’t stock up on toilet paper when you still had the chance:

• Read the story of how Chrissy Teigen’s headbands played an unexpected role in Sara Benincasa’s journey to sobriety. The…