I agree: as I've said
before, people such as Castro and Noriega
are dismissed as "crazy"
by establishmentarian figures.
As someone who deals
with the community of parents of kids on the autistic
spectrum,
I'm always fighting the
urge (not just by others) to diagnose various people as
Brian McKenna wrote:
Hi all,
I disagree strongly with this view. . .
The rest of this post is so incoherent that I am baffled by how to
respond to its actual arguments (since every argument the post advances
it also attacks as far as I can see: hence it refutes itself pretty
conclusively).
Hi all,
I disagree strongly with this view. . .
Mental health tags are continually used to discredit whistleblowers, Marxists, and others who challenge orthodoxy. This reproduces the dominant view that mental health questions only pertain to individuals, particularly those individuals who are
In a message dated 8/5/04 11:41:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I take any attack on anyone on the basis of mental illness as a personal attack. I.e., as far as I am concerned Brian's post boils down to the proposition that "Cox is a
shithead."
there is a slippery slope
Speaking of autism, read -- if you haven't already -- Mark
Haddon's The Serious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, an outstanding first
novel by a British writer with a background in working with autistic kids. Very
funny and empathetic, about one such terrifically engaging 15 year
old.
Sorry. The title is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-Time.
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