In our recent readings and discussions of the many cases of Neurodiverse people, we have not yet seen a case such as this one. When we read about the different cases in Sack’s book, none of those patients were aware they…

If you’re curious about what I’ll be doing in Amsterdam, you can check out the program for the Worlding the Brain conference. You can also read abstracts for the various presentations and performances that will take place at the conference–by…

One of the most interesting moments about Siri Hustvedt’s The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves, I found early on on when she is describing the second time she experiences one of her shaking episodes. She writes; “A friend,…

Siri Hustvedt’s “The Shaking Woman” is a memoir that recounts the author’s personal journey through self-diagnosis and enlightenment about a mysterious disease that manifests on and off during her public speaking appearances. It’s a wonderfully complicated issue in which Hustvedt…

Anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann and her colleagues are doing really fascinating work on cross-cultural differences among people who hear voices in the U.S., Ghana, and India–and suggesting implications for ways that culture shapes phenomenological experience more generally: However, in India and…

“Paying lip service to the idea of tolerance at a time when gay liberationists had started marching in the streets, Lovaas and Rekers proposed that ‘society probably could afford to become more tolerant with individuals with sex-role deviations’ but insisted…

This specific chapter caught my attention the most because it made me feel happy while I was reading. It made me feel happy because many non- profit organization are doing amazing things to help children with autism. “In 2011, a…

Every parent wants their child to act normal so they can fit in the society norm. But parents need to understand their child is smart in their own way to fit in the community. “he told a reporter from a…

I have chosen to focus on Chapter 3 for my post because to me it starts out the most interesting. It is describing a person, but in a way that most people would not normally describe another individual. For example,”Cavendish’s…

In Neurotribes there are multiple references to how the outside world treated Austism in its early stages of notability and now. In the introduction on page 15 Silberman notes that the daily challenges of autism are not the symptoms of those…