I first learned about autism in 1997 in my high school psychology course. It was relegated to a small paragraph in a chapter on childhood disorders. The film Rainman had come out a decade earlier, ...

"Normal" is one of those words that we don't really think about much when we use it (e.g., "normal reaction," "normal behavior," "normal person"). However, if you take the time to think about what ...

What if, in our conceptualization of emotional and mental health, we moved to a common sense definition of the word “normal” as “usual” or “understandable” or “a logical consequence of an array of ...

Think of the changes in the Indiana property tax system between 1998 and 2010. The Indiana Supreme Court threw out the assessment system in December 1998. We started using market values for the ...

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The definition of autism is getting increasingly broader. As a result, we are building a new reality of the disorder that doesn’t accurately represent the most affected population. I first learned ...