Michel Foucault

The question that matters most is: Can someone use these fictional realities based in pathology and stigma to make a better self? I think yes. I did.

A writer I admire named Eve Sedgwick wrote, “One is something in experiencing shame.” But, as Tobin Siebers wrote, being something is very different from being someone.

“holistic perception,” which encompasses a tendency to see the big picture in situations, stronger peripheral vision, higher than average visual-spatial skills, strengths in deciphering patterns, and the ability to “interact with their auditory environment while drawing upon their wider spatial attention,” enabling them to recognize patterns others

“normalizing society.”

When you hide, not only do you live in fear, but also in shame.

“The living world,” Kinsey wrote, “is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects.”

“hereditary genius.” He studied how traits such as intelligence and creativity were passed on within particular families.

A team of field workers spread out across the country to find what they called the “submerged 10th” of the normal curve.