Normality

Allen Frances said it best when he said that normal is a variation of many things, not just one. Not only does he talk about normality but he takes different approaches to it. In chapter one he discusses how the world defines normal and what normal used to be. He also brings up the ideological difference between what philosophy says and what doctors say. This part to chapter one ties in a lot to chapter two’s part about shaman. Also, discussed in this book is what mental diseases are and how…

ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis) therapy is one of the most renowned methods of therapy for children with autism. It helps children with autism from the highest spectrum to the lowest spectrum. ABA therapy gives children with autism the ability to learn social skills, behavioral skills, and language. ABA therapy is important for children with autism because of its ability to help with social skills and behaviors, and ABA therapy should continue to have separate educational centers to help every…

I am 30 years old and I have spent almost half of my life NOT living with my family. You see, I was born in New Haven, Connecticut and subsequently “raised” in Wallingford and North Haven, Connecticut. I love my family and I loved my childhood. I loved so many parts of Connecticut that it is hard to recount them all. But I ran away from them and that place as fast as my legs could carry me and, for the most part, with hardly a backwards glance. Now don’t get me wrong. I grew up in a…

1) In the story “Wakefield” by Hawthorne is based on this character name Wakefield “The man under pretence of going a journey took lodgings in the next street to his own house, and there, unheard of by his wife or friends, and without the shadow of self-banishment, dwelt upwards of twenty years”(1). Wakefield does indeed sound like an oddly uninteresting character however Hawthorne makes it clear that Wakefield is a painfully normal guy. Because Hawthorne shows that Wakefield is a normal guy…

After slamming the GOP tax cuts and doubling down on calling bonuses to hard-working Americans "crumbs," a patriot stunned Nancy Pelosi with just six words. During a town hall event Tuesday in Phoenix, Arizona, a heckler asked the House Minority Leader, "How much are you worth, Nancy?" The remark was in response to Pelosi rambling about how the GOP tax cuts allowing Americans to keep more of their hard-earned money was pathetic and unpatriotic. “These are kitchen table issues for America’s…

Although there is no actual ‘ordinary’ figure to be viewed in relation with Lamia (unlike “Frankenstein”), her identity as the Other still effectively subverts the conception of normality by challenging what is typically internalised as natural or that which is readily taken for granted. In turn, through harnessing this figure of the Other, the poet criticises the fixed belief systems society blindly subscribes to, such as philosophical…

Depression has been said to be to be a “common cold of mental health” (Lucknow, n.d.) and this is because of the alarmingly huge number of diagnosed patients that suffer from this mental disorder. It is quoted that more than 350 million people of all ages suffer from depression worldwide. However despite this, many cannot tell the difference between feeling sad or depressed and having clinical depression. This makes the current use of ‘depression’ in some cases pop-psych, that is psychological…

generating many comments about how this behavior is abnormal to see. Although, if this behavior was observed in Islam or Afghan culture, it would be normal. As it was state in the paper titled, Defining “Normal” and “Abnormal”, “Definitions of normality vary by person, time, place, culture, and situation—they often involve value judgments and are heavily influenced by societal standards and norms” (Boundless, n.d.). Therefore, it seems that we need to have a basic understanding of other…

Think of tradition, convention, and normality. These are parts of society that allow people to bond over commonalities and provide a basis for the culture that each person exists in. Each factor of society allows people to interact on a normal, day-to-day basis, and serves as the general foundation for civility. In Edward Albee’s The Goat, each of these integral parts of society are stretched and strained by the protagonist through certain acts deemed vile by his family and peers. The…

Normality must be essentially driven by the things that we think, say and do to others that we would like to be thought, said and done to us by others. Following the crowd or the norms of society blindly can be bad for us and may lead to the destruction of…