Montreal Autism Society, 292
Morath, Inge, 181
Mormons, gay, 45
Morquio syndrome, 157
Morris, Alix, 381–85
Morris, Dylan, 382, 383, 384
Morris, Eve, 381–85
Morris, Jan, 599, 600
Morris, John, 381–85
Morrison, Jim, 299
Moscow, Russia, 43, 408–9, 421
mothers, 109, 181, 403
attachment of, 181, 363–64, 372
autism and, 231, 250, 257, 264, 274
deaf children rejected by, 57–60
Imaginationism and, 119, 231
new Down syndrome, 180
of premature babies, 42–43
rape and, 477, 478, 482–89, 494–505
“refrigerator,” 231, 274
schizophrenogenic, 307, 308
single, 548, 564, 603
transgender and, 631, 635
welfare, 513
Moulton, Arden, 186, 187, 214
Moulton, Stephanie, 340
Mourning and Melancholia (Freud), 365
Moussaoui, Zacarias, 560
movies, 77, 81, 110, 112, 587
autism and, 244–45, 266
schizophrenia and, 339
Movius, Aidan, 284
Movius, Kate, 284
Mowl, Gary, 82–83
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 284, 429, 437, 449
MSDs, see multiple severe disabilities
MTF (male to female) transgender, 603
Mueller, Gillian, 162
Muhly, Frank, 467–71
Muhly, Nico, 465, 468–71
Mukamakuza, Alphonsine, 533–34
Mukamana, Espérance, 527
Mukamana, Marianne, 530
Mukhopadhyay, Soma, 267
Mulliken, John, 119
Mullins, Aimee, 37, 38
multiculturalism, 28, 44, 110, 472
multiple disability, defined, 356
multiple severe disabilities (MSDs), 5, 355–404
abandonment and, 399–401
advocacy and, 358, 387, 389, 393, 394–95, 401–2
Ashley treatment and, 385–93
CHARGE syndrome and, 367
defined, 356–57
institutionalization and, 360, 362, 366, 375, 376, 380–81, 390–91
killing and, 393–95
maternal attachment and, 363–64, 372
siblings and, 380–81, 389
vagueness of criteria for, 357
murder, 22, 540, 559–61, 567
of abortion provider, 18
of autistics, 272, 290–94, 393
of babies, see infanticide
of disabled, 27
juvenile crime and, 543, 544, 574–75, 576, 583
by men, 19
multiple severe disabilities and, 393–95
by schizophrenics, 333, 339–42
of schizophrenics, 331
transgender and, 652–54, 657
Murphy, Kirk, 615
Murphy, Rev. Lawrence C., 74
Musée de Préhistoire, 236
music, 97, 100, 101, 208, 210, 233, 350
absolute pitch and, 422–23
chamber, 439–40
classical vs. popular, 465
components of talent for, 419–20
crossovers in, 461
deciding not to develop a life in, 432–33
jazz, 466, 467
as language, 407, 411, 412, 419, 423, 455, 465, 475
multiple severe disabilities and, 374, 400
other careers vs., 432
practicing of, 426, 447, 449–51, 455
as preferable to silence, 470
prodigies and, 406–57, 459–75
start of sound recording and, 462
music education, elimination of, 462, 467
Muslims, Islam, 116, 560
myelination, 303
myoclonic seizures, 205, 206
myopia, 2
myth:
Greek, 233–34, 478
Irish, 237–38
rape in, 478–79
NAD, see National Association of the Deaf
Naiman, Alec, 68–69
Nanking, Rape of, 529
nannies, disabled children’s bonds with, 372–73, 375
narcissism:
of parents, 440–41, 554, 680
prodigies and, 416, 428
Narrow, William, 609
NARSAD, see National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
Nash, Anna Livia, 233–36, 282–83
Nash, Garrett, 234–35
Nassau County Mental Health Association, 272
Nate Nate, Miss (née Eugene Davis), 654
Nathan, David, 326, 327
National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD), now called Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, 304–5
National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), 631
National Association of the Deaf (NAD), 52, 61, 67–69, 91, 93, 112
National Center for Transgender Equality, 602, 650
National Conference on Autism, 288
National Council on Disability, 278
National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS), 186–89, 195
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, 601, 650
National Health Service, British (NHS), 396–99, 621–22
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 200
National Institute of Mental Health, 222
National Institutes of Health (NIH), 187, 538, 563
nationality:
identity and, 2, 668
rape and, 530–31
National Society for Autistic Children, 231
National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 329
National Technical Institute for the Deaf, 78, 82–83
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, 262–63
Natural History of Rape, A (Thornhill and Palmer), 496
nature, 30, 396, 400
nurture vs., 21–22, 182, 183, 563–64, 635, 698
Nature (magazine), 683
Naylor, Jan, 291
Naylor, Sarah, 291
Nazeer, Kamran, 246, 256, 267
Nazis, 412, 413, 526
NBC, 140
Ndayambaje, Jean Damascene, 527
NDSS, see National Down Syndrome Society
Nebraska, 544
sex offenders in, 525
necrophiliac, 14–15
Ne’eman, Ari, 233, 276–79, 425
neglect, 128, 403, 517
crime and, 554, 563, 569–70
Nelson, Cora, 539–43
Nelson, Gareth, 279
nervous breakdowns, 137, 138, 457, 504
“Nessun dorma” (Puccini), 467
Neugeboren, Jay, 347, 402
Neugeboren, Robert, 347
neurodiversity, 224, 238, 263, 275–84, 334, 462, 503, 688
coinage of term, 278
Neurodiversity.com, 258
neurofibromatosis, 253
neuroimaging, 52–53
neuroleptics, 221, 310
neurological syndrome, 352–53
neurologists, multiple severe disabilities and, 358, 372, 375, 377, 397, 398
neurology, 278
neurons, mirror, 245–46
neuropathy, hereditary, 679–80
neuroprotectants, 319
neuroscience, 424, 425
NeuroToxicology, 264
neurotransmitters, 249, 254, 306, 317, 347
Nevada, juvenile detention in, 552
New, Maria, 17, 18
New Deal, 181
New England Conservatory of Music, 474
Newsday, 135
Newsweek, 204
Newton, Sir Isaac, 284, 471
New York, NY, 72, 73, 188, 434, 665
Carnegie Hall in, 409, 410, 414, 416, 418, 421–22, 429, 448, 461
deficit of soul in, 421
Grand Central Station in, 50
7
Gabriel Kahane in, 474
schools in, 7, 8, 9, 11–13, 49–50, 52, 78, 216, 235, 243, 419, 421, 422, 424, 433, 438–39, 442, 444, 463, 464, 469, 487
sexual opportunity in, 13–14
subway in, 154
transgender person murdered in, 654
Marc Yu debut in, 451
New York, 14, 16, 419
New York Center for Autism, 243
New York Center for Autism Charter School, 243
New York Deaf Theatre, 68
New Yorker, 16, 366
New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, 154
New York Post, 182
New York State, 45, 139, 183, 211, 215–16
multiple severe disabilities in, 378, 395
transgender person murdered in, 653
New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 177
New York Times, 2, 26, 49, 61, 74, 121, 335, 422, 450
Ashley treatment in, 389
autism and, 265, 277, 292
Down syndrome and, 201, 211
dwarfs and, 126, 145–46, 156, 158, 164
juvenile detention in, 552
midget and, 126
music criticism in, 448, 449, 475
New York Times Magazine, 11–12, 121
Ngabonziza, Jean-de-Dieu, 534
Ngarda (resident of Bengkala), 87
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 33
Nigeria, 330
NIH, see National Institutes of Health
Nimura, Janice, 443
9/11 attacks, 560
nirvana, 47
Nixon, Richard M., 28, 75, 182
Niyonsenga, Marcelline, 531–32
No Child Left Behind Act, 458
Noda, Ken, 433–35, 440, 461
Noda, Takayo, 433, 434, 435
Nolan, Christopher, 398, 402
Nordstrom, Ryan, 570
norepinephrine, 317
normal, normality, 30, 61, 135, 257, 281, 336, 352, 679, 686
avoiding of use of word, 28
family and, 418–19, 592–93
multiple severe disabilities and, 379, 380
prodigies and, 451, 454, 455
psychosis compared with, 347
Normal (Bloom), 635
Northern Virginia Resource Center, 63
Noy, Pinchas, 426
nuchal translucency (prenatal genetic test), 199
nucleotides, 129
nursery schools, 181
nurture, 172, 210, 248, 363, 403
nature vs., 21–22, 182, 183, 563–64, 635, 698
prodigies and, 406, 442, 445, 455
Nyirahabimana, Alphonsine, 528
Nyiregyházi, Ervin, 428
NYU Child Study Center, 277
Oaks, David W., 336
Obama, Barack, 278
obesity, 586
object processing, 246
O’Brien, Dan, 522–25
Observer, 529
obsessions, 350–51, 561, 626, 636
obsessive-compulsive disorder, 251, 348
ocular nerve, 73
O’Hara, Anne, 654–58, 688
O’Hara, Bridget, 70–74
O’Hara, Clay, 654–58
O’Hara, Luke, 70–74
O’Hara, Mary, 70–73
O’Hara, Matilda, 71, 73, 74
olanzapine (Zyprexa), 318
O’Leary, Sue, 671
Oliver, Michael, 29
Olshansky, Simon, 23, 180, 365
omega-3 fatty acids, 319
“O mio babbino caro” (Puccini), 467
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (movie), 336
oophorectomy, 620
opera, 395, 467, 470
oppositional defiant disorder, 648
Oprah (TV show), 419, 623, 624
optimism, 24–25, 34, 45, 118, 577, 580
Option Therapy, 269
oral sex, 497
oral speech, 3, 51–54, 62–65, 66–69, 75, 77, 81, 82, 83, 88–93, 99, 100, 102, 104–7
cochlear implants and, 90–93, 98, 106–7
Oregon State Hospital, 339
Organization for Autism Research, 289
orgasm, 148, 479, 620
male, 619
orphanages, 255
Orr, Cynthia Hujar, 341
Orthopaedia (Andry), 163
Osbrink, Bob, 97–101
Osbrink, Mary, 97–98, 100
Osbrink, Rory, 97–100
Osman, Anneke, 661–62
Osman, Ben, 661, 662
Osman, Nicole, 661–62
Out of Bedlam (Johnson), 314
ovaries, 621
removal of, 620
ovulation, 484
Oxford:
emergency room in, 395
Special Care Baby Unit in (SCBU), 396
Padden, Carol, 56, 62, 114
Paganini, Niccolò, 425, 429
Page, Tim, 278
Pagliaro, Jamie, 243
pain, 32, 161, 700
autism and, 236–37, 292
happiness and, 40
Pakistan, 320
Palencia, Elaine Fowler, 356
Paley, Dror, 162
Palmer, Christina, 61–62, 93, 110
Palmer, Craig T., 496
Palmer, Greg, 214
Palmer, Ned, 214–15
panic attacks, 267, 274, 510
Papineni, Padmasayee, 486
paranoid thoughts, 301, 311, 321, 331, 345
Pardes, Herbert, 304
Paremski, Mikhail, 420, 421
Paremski, Misha, 420, 422
Paremski, Natalie, 420–22
Paremski, Natasha, 420–22, 474
Parens, Erik, 189
parens patraie, 545–46
parents, parenthood:
ambivalence of, 21
of autistic children, 37, 221–31, 233–49, 256, 258–65, 267–94
of blind, 31
children as strangers to, 1
of criminals, 537–38, 543–97
deaf, 55, 57–60, 63, 69
of deaf children, 2–3, 50, 51, 54, 55, 57–63, 69, 71–82, 87–89, 92–107, 111–12
of disabled, 19–31, 36, 38, 39, 42, 45
of Down syndrome children, 169–81, 183, 184–85, 187–212, 214–19
of dwarfs, 3, 21, 41, 115, 116, 119–29, 131–38, 140–47, 150–55
of gays, 3, 4, 9–12, 16, 34, 45–46
guilt of, 21, 22, 61–62, 98, 134, 181, 210, 227
immortality fantasy of, 1
maturity and, 563
multiple severe disabilities and, 357–90, 394–404
narcissism of, 440–41, 554, 680
nature vs. nurture and, 21–22
of prodigies, 405–49, 451–76
reproduction vs. production by, 1
rewards of, 365–66
of schizophrenics, 295, 297–302, 304–9, 311–13, 315, 320–28, 330–34, 338–39, 342–44, 348–51, 478
see also fathers; mothers; specific topics
Parents of Dwarf Children, 142
Parents of Little People and Dwarfism Yahoo! newsgroups, 144–45
Paris, France, 51, 179, 457
Park, Clara Claiborne, 24–25
Parker, Rozsika, 403
Parkinson’s disease, 250
Parks, Leslie, 131–34
Pasquiou, Pierre, 291
Patterson, Dan, 560
Patterson, David, 194
Paul, St., 51
Pauley, Jane, 173, 202
Paxil, 267
PDD-NOS (pervasive development disorder not otherwise specified), 234
Pearsall, Chet, 662–63
Pearsall, Hugh, 662–63
Pearsall, Vicky, 662–63
Pearson, John, 642, 643
Pearson, Kim, 604, 606, 637, 640–43, 646
Pearson, Shawn-Dedric, 641–43
Pease, Doug, 310–13
Pease, Malcolm, 310–13
Pease, Penny, 311–13
Pease, Peter,
311–13
Peasley, Ericka, 157, 158
Peck, Caleb, 165–67
Peck, Josh, 166
Peck, Kiki, 164–67
Pediatrics, 391
pedophilia, 12
penile inversion, 620
penis:
absence of, 615
burning off of, 614
reconstruction of, 614
surgically constructed, 620–21
transgender and, 604, 605–6, 614, 618, 620–21, 644, 664
Penn State, 285–86, 289
Penrose, Lionel, 180
Penrose, Roger, 698
Pentecostal Church of God in Christ, 555, 558
People First, 213
Pepper, Rachel, 601
perfect pitch, see absolute pitch
perfection, 403, 426, 590
perfectionism, 36, 37, 195, 199
Perlman, Itzhak, 429, 441
personality:
autism and, 252–53, 257
crime and, 544, 546, 549
Down syndrome and, 194–95, 205, 212, 218
dwarfism and, 123, 134
schizophrenia and, 310
transgender and, 607
personhood, 401–2
Peter Singer’s views of, 393–94, 401
pervasive developmental delay, 242
pessimism, 24, 34
Peterson, Drew, 417–20
Peterson, Eric, 419
Peterson, Joe, 417–19
Peterson, Oscar, 466
Peterson, Sue, 417–19
PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), 629
phalloplasty, 620–21
phenotype, 250, 305
phenylketonuria (PKU), 253
phone calls:
sexual, 545
threatening, transgender children and, 657
phonemes, 53, 91, 105
physical abuse, 4, 71–72, 73, 492, 503, 513
of children, see child abuse, physical
crime and, 564, 570
Down syndrome and, 195
dwarfism and, 119, 128
of prodigies, 428, 429, 446
see also domestic violence
physical disability, 6
as horizontal identity, 2
physical health, 25, 42
physical therapists, 215
physics, 456
Copenhagen interpretation in, 4–5
piano, prodigies and, 407–22, 428–41, 443–49, 451–57, 463–67, 472–73
Piano Concerto no. 2 (Rachmaninoff), 421–22
Piano Sonata no. 3 (Chopin), 449
picture-exchange method, 244
Pidgin Signed English, 82
pillow angel, use of term, 386, 388, 390
pilots, deaf, 68
Pima College, 341
Pistorius, Oscar, 38
pitch, absolute, 422–23
pituitary dwarfism, 119, 126, 163–64, 221
pituitary gland, 131
Plank, Alex, 276
Planned Parenthood, 487
plastics, 250, 264
plastic surgery, 34–36, 195
Plato, 412, 444
play, 441
Playboy, 10
pleasure, 403, 470, 472, 479
pleasure principle, 302
pleiotropic genes, 252
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