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A Bozo of a Baboon
A talk with Robert Sapolsky.
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Secret Life of an Autistic Stripper
I've always had trouble reading social cues, but in the strip club, where rules and roles are crystal clear, I finally learned to connect. By Reese Piper.
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The case for going to bed at 2:30 am
There’s nothing virtuous about “early to bed, early to rise.” By Kate Shellnutt. (Feb. 27, 2017)
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Sent to a Hospital, But Locked in Prison
They’re not charged with a crime, but these patients still end up in jumpsuits and solitary. By Taylor Elizabeth Eldridge, Ashley Nerbovig.
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The Sound of Madness
Can we treat psychosis by listening to the voices in our heads? By T. M. Luhrmann.
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The truth about Hans Asperger’s Nazi collusion
Simon Baron-Cohen absorbs the grave revelations in a study on a paediatrician enmeshed in autism’s history.
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When the Way You Love Things Is “Too Much”; or: Why I Went to Portmeirion
The author on her love for ‘The Prisoner,’ her pilgrimage to the town where it was filmed, and the pressure she felt as an autistic person to downplay the intensity of her interests. By Sarah Kurchak.
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Infiltrating the Flat Earth International Conference
Red Ice TV
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When Silence is a Plea Bargain
On life as a stutterer. By Parker Carroll.
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My sudden synaesthesia: how I went blind and started hearing colours
Vanessa Potter unexpectedly lost her sight. As she recovered, her senses mingled and hearing and touch changed the way she saw the world.
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If you were an elephant …
… the world would be a brighter, smellier, noisier place – and you would be a better, wiser, kinder person. Charles Foster, the author of Being a Beast explains all.
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What It’s Like to Hear Voices in Your Head Every Day
Rai hears roughly 13 different voices, but she doesn’t let them get in the way of her life. By Louise Donovan.
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Not all there: My mother's lobotomy
I learned about my mother's lobotomy when I was 25, maybe 26. I'm still trying to make sense of it. By Mona Gable.
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Contrast Study
When Leslie Kendall Dye's mother woke up after a massive brain bleed, she wasn't the same mother.
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Why Blind People Are Better at Math
Bernard Morin developed glaucoma at an early age and was blind by the time he was six years old. Despite his inability to see, Morin went on to become a master topologist... By Diana Kwon.
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What Does it Mean to ‘Look Autistic?’
A writer’s reflections on the pain of “passing” for neurotypical. By M.Nicole.R.Wildhood.
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Autism–It’s Different in Girls
New research suggests the disorder often looks different in females, many of whom are being misdiagnosed and missing out on the support they need
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My Autistic Brother’s Quest for Love
He’s still searching. By Danielle Bacher.
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Toward a Pathology of the Possessed
Schizophrenia’s effects are often discussed in metaphors. What is it like to live with those metaphors? By Esmé Weijun Wang.
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Were geniuses like Andy Warhol and Albert Einstein mentally ill?
There’s a fine line, it is said, between genius and insanity. But do the two always go hand in hand? In her new book, “Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder,” Claudia Kalb examines 12 historic figures through the lens of today’s knowledge of mental illnesses... By Larry Getlen.
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