Monday, February 26, 2007

Jamison exudes...

This woman and her book are rocking my world right now. Positive aspects of non-traditional personalities.

My peeps and I were all poked and prodded in childhood in the fashionable Ritalin infested problem-solving school of 1980s psychology.

It's not even the stigma attached to named psychological "disorders" that sucks most. It's the widespread loss of appreciation for the slipperiness of normalcy.

What makes Dostoyevsky and Goethe and Jeanette Winterson so much fun to read is that even though you could put a label on the characters, you identify with them and take the amiguity of their sanity on yourself as the reader... and it's fun.