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by Solomon, Andrew


  Kitahara, Kiyo, 272

  Kitchens, Lee, 128

  Klagsbrun, Sam, 344, 345, 346

  Klebold, Dylan, 587–97

  Klebold, Sue, 587–97, 688

  Klebold, Tom, 587–97

  Klin, Ami, 266

  Kniest dysplasia, 164–67

  Knife, The (album), 350

  knives, 543, 577

  Knoll, Carrie, 364

  knowledge, 4, 30, 42, 366, 583, 584, 697

  gender and, 607

  Koch, Kathleen Leahy, 490

  Kohl, Rev. Kristina, 647, 648

  Konstantinova, Nadezhda, 43

  Koos, Alexis, 626

  Koos, Bill (formerly Sari), 626–27

  Koos, Hendrik, 626–27

  Kopits, Steven, 141–42, 151

  Koplewicz, Harold, 277

  Korea, 455, 469

  Korpai, Jimmy, 140

  Kosovo war, 529

  Koss, Mary P., 496

  Kraus, Lili, 437–38, 439

  Kriens, Christiaan, 427

  Kroeber, Alfred, 413, 471

  Krueger, Hailey, 646–50

  Krueger, Hannah (formerly Jayden), 646–50

  Krystal, John, 306–7, 319, 335

  Kunc, Norman, 392, 393

  Kuwait, Iraqi occupation of, 531

  Kyuhyun, Huaj, 569–70

  LaBianca, Rosemary, 559

  Ladd, Paddy, 103

  Laing, R. D., 314, 336

  Lambert, Leona, 647, 649

  Lamott, Anne, 146

  Lancaster, PA, 285–90

  Lancet, 261, 262

  landlords, discrimination by, against schizophrenics, 339

  Lane, Harlan, 69–70, 103, 111

  Lang Guoren, 445–49, 453

  Lang Lang, 419, 445–49, 453, 455, 465

  Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital, 298

  language, 5, 35

  acquisition period for, 53, 91, 92

  autism and, 223, 225, 228, 232, 235, 239, 241–42, 244, 247, 248, 249, 251, 262, 265, 266, 267, 270–72, 278, 281, 282, 283, 286, 289

  of doctors, 366

  Down syndrome and, 194, 202

  infant-directed speech, 407

  Kata Kolok (sign language of Bengkala), 84–86

  loss of, 113

  multiple severe disabilities and, 358, 359, 373, 390–91

  music as, 407, 411, 412, 419, 423, 436, 455, 465, 475

  music described with, 470

  oral speech, see oral speech

  prodigies and, 407, 410–11, 412, 417, 419, 425, 436

  schizophrenia and, 302, 315, 317, 341, 347

  sign, diversity of, 83

  Sign (ASL), see American Sign Language

  as vertical identity, 2

  Whorf-Sapir hypothesis of, 62

  Lanier, Ilene, 243, 244

  Lankford, Grace Ward, 436, 438

  Laos, 569

  Lappé, Marc, 684

  Larry King Live (TV show), 559–60

  Latinos, 8, 116

  Laurent, SD, proposed town of, 110

  law enforcement:

  abuse and, 211–12

  rape and, 480

  lawsuits, 596, 636, 667

  multiple severe disabilities and, 382, 383, 390–91, 394–95

  Leaming, Colgan, 204

  learning, Down syndrome and, 214

  Learning Center for the Deaf, 95

  learning disabilities, 136, 175, 253, 498, 549

  transgender and, 601, 626, 645

  Leclerc, Annie, 403

  Leete, Esso, 331

  Legal Aid Corporation, UK, 262

  legs, prosthetic, 37–38

  Lehr, Ben, 246–49

  Lehr, Bob, 246–49

  Lehr, Sue, 246–49

  Leigh, Irene, 107

  Lejeune, Jérôme, 180

  Leonardo da Vinci, 471

  lesbians, lesbianism, 68, 609, 616, 617, 618, 648, 664

  Anne O’Hara as, 657–58

  dexamethasone and, 17

  feminist split with, 601

  as parents of transgender child, 18

  rights of, 601

  as teachers, 12–13

  Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, 236

  Leubner, Daniel, 291

  Lev, Zvia, 292

  Levin, Robert, 417, 420

  Levine, James, 434

  Leviticus, 144

  Levitin, Daniel, 423

  Levitz, Mitchell, 213

  Levy, Deborah, 305–6, 324

  Lewis, Jerry, 32

  Lexington Center for the Deaf, 49–50, 52, 54, 56–57, 58, 67, 109

  LGBT people, see homosexuality, homosexuals

  Li, Minduo, 452

  liberation movements (1960s), 313

  Lichy, Tomato, 100

  Lieber, Connie, 304–5

  Lieber, Janice, 304–5

  Lieber, Steve, 304–5

  Lieber Clinic, 305

  Lieberman, Jeffrey, 318, 319–20, 328–29, 330

  Liechtenstein, 9

  life:

  meaningful, 371

  practice vs., 451

  wrongful, 39–40, 394

  yearning for, 435

  life expectancy:

  disability and, 376, 400

  Down syndrome and, 198, 199, 211

  schizophrenia and, 313

  Life Goes On (TV show), 214, 215

  life support, 378, 394, 438

  limb-lengthening (ELL), 3, 36, 123, 160–63, 388, 455

  Lincoln, Abraham, 51

  Lindsey, Benjamin, 545

  lipreading, 3, 52, 53, 55, 58, 70, 71, 98, 99, 101

  listening, 256, 462, 471

  Little People (Kennedy), 128

  Little People, Big World (TV show), 120

  Little People of America (LPA), 115–20, 122, 125–28, 135–44, 159, 334, 353

  conventions of, 41, 115–19, 133, 137–38, 140, 143, 162

  dwarf as designated by, 128

  first meeting of, 126

  genetic testing and, 156, 157

  Medical Advisory Board of, 128

  website of, 148–49

  little professors, use of term, 232

  Littleton, CO, Columbine in, 587–97

  liver function, 313

  Lives of Dwarfs, The (Adelson), 116, 144

  Living with Difference (Ablon), 134

  Ljungqvist, Arne, 666

  lobotomy, 309, 310

  Locke, John, 412, 611

  log rolling by dwarf infants, 130

  Lombroso, Cesare, 425

  London, 457, 683

  loneliness, 20, 46, 520, 700

  crime and, 554

  of deaf, 50, 58

  Down syndrome and, 176, 187, 212

  of dwarfs, 115, 118, 136

  of prodigies, 426, 462

  schizophrenia and, 296, 301

  Longinus, 412

  Long Island, 139

  Long Island Jewish Hospital, 308

  Look Me in the Eye (Robison), 233

  Lopez, Emma, 564–66

  Lopez, Karina, 564–68, 576, 583

  Los Angeles, CA, 233

  gangs in, 571, 573–74

  public school in, 76

  Los Angeles County Jail, 342

  Los Angeles Philharmonic, 474

  Los Angeles Times, 453, 681

  loss, grief and, 100

  Lotto, Miyoko, 418, 419

  Loughner, Jared L., 340, 341, 342

  Louisiana Senate Committee on Health and Welfare, 491

  Lovaas, O. Ivar, 235, 615

  love, 42, 59, 148, 506, 572, 692, 700

  alteration and, 390

  author’s mother’s view of, 15

  autism and, 223–24, 226, 227, 229, 230, 240–41, 247, 274, 275, 278, 281, 288, 292, 294

  crime and, 544, 550, 554, 557, 561, 562, 565, 567, 577, 581, 582, 587, 588, 589, 592

  modern, 20

  multiple severe disabilities and, 360, 361, 364, 371, 373, 375, 376, 380, 384, 387, 389, 390, 392, 398, 399

  prodigies and, 429, 431, 435
, 438

  rape and, 478, 486, 490, 501, 504, 514, 517, 525, 527, 528, 530, 535–36

  romantic, 15

  schizophrenia and, 307, 324–25, 331, 344–47, 351, 352, 353

  suffering and, 42, 43

  transgender and, 615, 618–19, 624, 625, 626, 650

  willful blindness vs., 557

  love, parental, 1, 6, 15, 21, 23, 25, 36, 45, 46, 47, 58, 120, 331, 352, 403, 404, 431, 438, 445, 548, 676, 677, 686, 696, 698

  autism and, 223–24, 227, 229, 230, 240, 241, 281, 294

  criminals and, 554, 557, 561, 562, 565, 574, 587, 588, 589, 592

  multiple severe disabilities and, 360, 361, 364, 371, 376, 380, 384, 387, 389, 390, 398, 399

  rape and, 478, 486, 490, 501, 504, 514, 528, 530, 535–36

  transgender and, 618, 626, 671

  Lowell, Edgar L., 62

  LPA, see Little People of America

  LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), 298, 325, 559–60

  Lucretius, 472

  Luginbuhl, Lynn, 637–39

  lumbar surgery, 130

  Lundeen, Erika, 382, 383

  lung cancer, 263, 317, 333–34

  Lupron, 270, 621, 622, 662

  Luther, Martin, 237

  lying, 550, 572, 575, 633

  Ma, Yo-Yo, 432

  MacKay, Anne, 12–13

  MacKinnon, Catharine, 496

  Madden, Catherine, 191–94

  Madden, Wilson, 191, 192, 193

  Madonna (entertainer), 422

  Mad Pride movement, 335–38, 353

  MAGIC Foundation, 120

  magnetic resonance imaging, 90

  Mahkorn, Sandra K., 492

  Mahler, Gustav, 432

  Mahler, Margaret, 231

  Mahler, Thérèse, 432

  mainstreaming, 186, 239, 687

  Makya, Luke, 539–42

  Makya, Pete, 539–43

  Malcolm, Audrey, 555–59

  Malcolm, Dashonte (Cool), 555–59

  Malden, MA, 332, 333

  Mallon, Gerald, 609

  Malloy, Carol, 571–81

  Maloof, George E., 492

  managers, of musical prodigies, 443

  Manhattan Parents Support Group, 215

  Manhattan School of Music, 419, 444, 467

  Mannes College for Music, 421, 422

  manslaughter, reckless, 361

  Manson, Charles, 559–60

  manualism, see American Sign Language

  Marcolo, Bridget, 326, 327

  Marcolo, George, 325–27

  Marcolo, Giuseppe, 325–27

  Marengo, Angela, 564–66, 568

  Marengo, Cesar, 564–65, 568

  marijuana, 316, 317, 325, 326, 546, 559–60, 567, 574

  Marino, Lou, 81

  Markcrow, Patrick, 291

  marriage, 20, 25, 207, 568

  of blind people, 61

  of deaf people, 61

  dwarfs and, 119, 120, 124, 149

  interracial, 668

  multiple severe disabilities and, 371

  prodigies and, 428, 429, 439, 440, 453

  rape in, 481, 511–14

  rape’s effects on, 530

  “revolutionary,” 572

  same-sex, 45, 557–58, 667, 690, 692

  schizophrenia and, 307, 309, 312

  sex in, 450–51

  transgender, 633, 667

  Marsaja, I Gede, 84–86

  Marsh, Diane, 291

  Marsh, Noel, 561–63

  Marsh, Tyrone, 561–63

  marshmallow test, 450

  Martha’s Vineyard, 51

  Martinez, Dolores (formerly Diego), 633–35

  Marx, Caleb, 629–31

  Marx, Jonah, 629–31

  Marx, Lily, 629–31

  Maryland Board of Physicians, 270

  Maryland School for the Deaf, 105

  Massachusetts, 312–13, 331, 342

  Puritan, 479

  Massachusetts, University of, 239

  Massachusetts General Hospital, 332

  Mass Health, 240

  MassResistance, 17

  mastectomy, 620

  Masten, Ann S., 23

  masturbation, 12, 268

  Matamura, Marie Rose, 528–29

  maternity houses, 490

  mathematics, 406, 455–56, 457

  Matricardi, Lisa, 461–62

  maturity, parenthood and, 563

  Matusky, Barbara, 104–7

  Mayberg, Helen, 309–10

  Mayerson, Arlene, 32

  Mayo, Frank, 671

  May We Have a Choice, 213

  Mbuti (central African tribe), 140

  McCarron, Karen, 292–93

  McCarron, Katie, 292–93

  McCarron, Louise, 440

  McCarthy, Jenny, 263

  McCourt, Bridget, 660–61

  McCourt, Matt, 660–61

  McCullough, Candace, 682–83

  McDonald, Anne, 390–91, 402

  McDonald, Jess M., 570

  McDonald, Roy J., 45

  McFeely, Chuck, 547–49

  McFeely, Josiah, 547–48

  McFeely, Kayla, 547–49

  McFeely, Lauren, 547

  McFeely, Mackenzie, 547–49

  McFeely, Madison, 547–49

  McFeely, Sophia, 547–49

  McGlashan, Thomas, 318, 319

  McGovern, Cammie, 292

  McKerrow, Carol, 668–74

  McKerrow, Kim (formerly Paul), 668–74

  McKerrow, Loren, 668, 670–71

  McKerrow, Marc, 668–74

  McKerrow, Todd, 668, 669, 670, 672

  McKusick, Victor, 128

  McLaughlin, Janice, 190

  McLean, 299–301, 325

  Mclean, Lashai, 654

  McOrmond-Plummer, Louise, 512

  Mead, Margaret, 180, 472

  Meadowmount, 460

  measles, 91, 261

  measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, 261

  Medicaid, 287, 490

  medical school, 135

  medication, 5, 446

  antiseizure, 267

  autism and, 229, 244, 250, 253, 254, 264, 267, 269, 270, 274

  for depression, see antidepressants

  for Down syndrome, 200–201

  multiple severe disabilities and, 375, 377, 397, 400

  preventing homosexuality with, 17–18

  prodigies and, 461

  schizophrenia and, 299, 300, 304, 309–13, 315, 317–24, 326–29, 331, 335, 336–37, 340, 341, 343, 345, 346–47, 349, 352

  medicine, 15–16

  disability and, 27–28, 30

  disability avoidance and, 29

  pediatric, 20

  see also doctors; hospitals

  Mehta, Zarin, 426

  Mellaril (thioridazine), 267, 304, 349

  memantine, 200

  memory, 200, 233, 253, 310, 621

  schizophrenia and, 295, 302, 303, 328

  Mendelssohn, Felix, 437, 448–49

  meningitis, 91, 97–98, 109

  menstruation, 386, 387

  mental age, 205, 209

  mental disability, parental sorrow and, 23

  mental health:

  abortion and, 490, 492

  criminals and, 549

  delusions of, 42

  positive thinking and, 308

  prodigies and, 427, 434, 460

  transgender and, 609, 610

  mental hospitals, 311–12, 314–15, 330, 333

  mental illness, 310, 318

  anorexia as, 34

  biological model of, 336

  deinstitutionalization and, 314–15

  Foucault’s views on, 313–14

  homosexuality as, 17

  spectrum of, 306

  see also bipolar disorder; schizophrenia

  mental retardation, see intellectual disability

  Mental Retardation Institute, 172

  Menuhin, Yehudi, 451

  Menvielle, Edgardo, 610, 636

  mercury, 261, 26
5, 270

  meritocracy, classical music world as, 413, 454

  Merkin, Lewis, 60

  methamphetamine, 316–17

  Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), 647

  Metropolitan Opera, 434–35, 470

  Meyer, Edgar, 461

  Meyer-Bahlburg, Heino, 607, 608, 635–36, 660

  Meyerding, Jane, 283–84

  mGluR5 receptor, 253–54

  Michaels, Bobby, 497–99

  Michaels, Clarabel, 497, 498

  Michaels, Lori, 496–99

  Michalko, Rod, 32

  Michigan, 16, 139

  Michigan, University of, Hospital, 165, 166

  Middletown, 362

  midget, derivation and use of word, 126, 140–41, 153

  Midgets of America, 126

  Midgette, Anne, 411

  Mid-Hudson Gay Pride Parade (2009), 629

  Midori (violinist), 442

  migraine headaches, 70, 72, 73

  Miller, Arthur, 181

  Miller, Karla, 394

  Miller, Marvin T., 110

  Miller, Paul Steven, 125, 138

  mindblindness, 245–46

  MindFreedom International, 336

  Mingfang Ting, 463–64

  Minneapolis, MN, 555–59, 571, 574, 577, 579–80, 654, 693

  Minnesota, 572–74

  gangs in, 556, 557, 558, 565, 567, 574

  see also Hennepin County Home School

  minorities, self-definition of, 28

  Minter, Shannon, 622, 667

  Mirador, Ashoka, 573, 574, 580

  Mirador, Basho, 573

  Mirador, Krishna, 571–81, 583

  Mirador, Raul, 571–74, 576–79

  Miranda rights, 546

  mirror neurons, 245–46

  Mirveta (rape victim), 529–30

  miscarriage, 170, 171, 485, 486, 607, 693

  Mischel, Walter, 450

  Miskiewicz, Jadwiga, 291

  misogyny, 479, 512, 526–27

  Miss Deaf America pageant, 68

  Miss Deaf Missouri, 68

  Mississippi, juvenile detention in, 552

  MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), 456

  Mitchell, David, 27–28, 29

  Mitchell, Jonathan, 281

  Mitchell, Juliet, 237

  Mithen, Steven, 407

  mitochondrial deafness, 61

  MMR, see measles-mumps-rubella vaccine

  Mobley, William C., 200–201

  modeling, 37

  modernity, 20, 29

  Molsami (Bengkala resident), 87

  Mom, I Need to Be a Girl (Evelyn), 626

  Mommy and Me class, 234

  Mondini malformation, 70, 72

  money, 59, 67, 77, 139, 314, 332, 498, 658

  abortion and, 518

  Buddy Walk and, 188

  happiness and, 32

  loans of, 507, 508

  prodigies and, 427–28, 442, 446, 447, 452, 468–69

  theft of, 547, 556, 557, 562

  Money, John, 614

  Mongolia, Mongols, 179, 180, 270

  Mongoloids, Mongoloid idiots, use of words, 179

  Monroe, Karen, 417, 426, 455

  Montan, Barb, 79–82

  Montan, Chris, 79–81

  Montan, Nils, 80

  Montan, Spencer, 79–82

  Montessori, Maria, 181

  Montessori schools, 81, 418

 

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