Word: normalization
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...then agreed that it would be useful for one of us to sit down and informally talk with the editors about why we felt the cartoon pushed the boundaries of normal discourse, and to urge them to employ greater care with satire,” he said...
...ceiling is so high that when I sleep on the top bunk, it feels like I am on a normal bed,” says Stephen W. Stromberg ’05, who is also a Crimson editor...
Moreover, there is precedent for normal behaviors such as sleep being transmogrified into disease. A good example is Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), which according to some psychiatrists, may affect 15 million Americans. This disease, which was originally called ADD, entered the American Psychiatric Association’s list of disorders only in 1980. Within in a decade, Ritalin became the favored drug to treat this disorder, and both the disease and the drug became wildly popular. But the enormous numbers of children taking the drug suggest that the normal exuberance of childhood has been declared treatable. Studies...
...have co-evolved and now exist in a harmonious, mutually beneficial relationship. Without the disease, the drug would be just another form of getting high. (Ritalin and cocaine are similarly preferable to laboratory animals when given a choice.) And without the drug, the disease could be written off as normal childhood boisterousness...
...drugs to treat a disease is constantly shifting. The mothers who demand Ritalin for their sons do so not only so their children can sit still through hours of boring class time; it’s just plain easier to deal with a pliable, narcotized child than a normal, energetic, rambunctious one. Doctors, who have been put in an increasingly difficult position in the last decade as pharmaceutical companies try to sell their drugs directly to patients, have a difficult time saying no if their colleagues are all saying yes when patients demand drugs...