Mad in America

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Editor’s Note: This blog is also being published on our affiliate site, Mad in the UK. T he one-size-fits-all autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis, as configured in the Revised Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM- 5-TR), is a clinical catastrophe. Well-meaning child practitioners who take the current DSM autism criteria at face value likely assume that the widely-used ASD diagnosis provides them with understanding of and insight into children’s dev

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

I keep seeing a black dog next to me. Will this chase me all my life? The dog, the needles, the pills, the razors, the knives? The weight like leaden boots of the pain I carry the empty bottles of alcohol my mother has consumed tied together with strips of brown paper bags trailing behind me like dead noisy prayer flags The cape of shame I wish I could use to make myself smaller will my life always be divided into before and after she turned from a helicopter into a monster?

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