Dumb used to mean mute. Personally, I think that’s going a little overboard with the political correctness, though. (And this from someone who doesn’t use retarded as an insult, or even crazy.)
(Basically unrelated, but: Do you or does anyone reading this know of anywhere online to read lots of case studies of schizophrenics, ideally without selection effects for “interesting” cases?)
No, but my local library has two autobiographies. Both seemed interesting to me, though.
Maybe you could look for internet support groups or forums or something. Stuff people write about themselves is probably more useful than stuff doctors write about them if you’re looking to learn about their thought processes.
MixedNuts meant “retarded”.
… I need a slur to describe how dumb I feel now...
“Slow”? Edit: or no, that’s the same thing, isn’t it. Um. Probably a dumb question, but what’s wrong with “dumb”?
Dumb used to mean mute. Personally, I think that’s going a little overboard with the political correctness, though. (And this from someone who doesn’t use retarded as an insult, or even crazy.)
(Basically unrelated, but: Do you or does anyone reading this know of anywhere online to read lots of case studies of schizophrenics, ideally without selection effects for “interesting” cases?)
No, but my local library has two autobiographies. Both seemed interesting to me, though.
Maybe you could look for internet support groups or forums or something. Stuff people write about themselves is probably more useful than stuff doctors write about them if you’re looking to learn about their thought processes.
Good suggestions, thanks much.
Something oddly relevant that i came across recently, tendency to interpret things too literally:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17372545
It is sort of a stereotype though, so I do not know how real it is.