Word: normalization
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...SAKS: In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot of quirks or problems when I was growing up. I had phobias and obsessions. I believed that there was a man standing outside of my window every night, waiting to break in and kill us all. A lot of kids have that fear, but mine lasted for years and years...
Motala may be better off than she was, but even an upgraded foot won't help her walk like a normal elephant. So cases like hers have inspired surgeons to begin experimenting with some radical new approaches that could potentially transform the field of prosthetics. One method is known as ingrowth, or osseointegration, a technique that skips the sleeves and cuffs altogether and attaches the prosthesis directly to the bone. "It is one of the hottest ideas in the field," says Dr. Denis Marcellin-Little, associate professor of orthopedics at North Carolina State University, who tried the surgery (unsuccessfully...
...after all, the business of farce to restore order to radically disordered situations. The fun arises as we helplessly witness the mad logic by which, step by tiny step, chaos asserts its dominion over normalcy. Take that naked fellow on the roof. Until today, he was a perfectly normal lawyer, a trifle nervous about meeting his fianc?e's family, but steadying himself by taking what he thought was a Valium. Not his fault that he grabbed the wrong pill bottle and ingested a hallucinogen instead. And so it goes - the obsessive, the insecure, the clinically demented, the madly narcissistic...
...shootings over the past decade, psychologist Bernardo Carducci and his team at Indiana University found that the young shooters in these incidents shared nearly all of 29 personality and behavior characteristics that Carducci categorizes as cynical shyness. This form, says Carducci, who directs the Shyness Research Institute, differs from normal shyness in that sufferers disconnect with others when their efforts at socialization are rebuffed. "These are people who want to be with others but who are rejected in a very harsh way," he says. While normally shy people would continue to try, and eventually succeed, in connecting with others, cynically...
...normal, he wants you to know, he is obviously not as ridiculously vanilla as the characters he's played. Like, he's totally not anti-kissing, even though he and Hudgens didn't do it in the first Disney movie. "I'm the last person to think a kiss is going to corrupt any child. Kissing is a great thing," he says. Also, he plays video games. Violent ones. "It's bull____ that guns in video games cause murders. The last thing I would ever do is hurt another person, and online I probably kill 200 guys a day." Moreover...