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Very helpful in categorizing certain conditions. Giving people some sense, based on which categories. When it failed that is the underlying. Having most people understand that i mean, theres value in it, but really asking why, whats going on. I think the more we learn, the more we will come to understand that its not specific neurotransmitters. As they can play a role in this disorder or that disorder, but to really understand how neural circuits really become sensitized, how those narrow circui...

When Sarah Hernandez joined the Enfield, Connecticut, Board of Education in 2017, she had a goal: making sure schools met the needs of students with disabilities. Among the first openly autistic candidates to be elected to public office in the country, she saw her win as a sign that her small town was open to her perspective. But if voters were, her colleagues on the school board were not: They consistently denied her the accommodations she needed to do her job, according to a discrimination law

--- This episode is available on your local radio station, on PRX, and below via The Moth Player. It will be published on  iTunes | Spotify | RadioPublic | RSS on 1/16/2023.In this hour, stories of outsiders, being at odds, and discomfort. A man feels more at home with machines than people, a young girl encounters a teacher who doesn't understand her, and a man becomes an unwilling participant...

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