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Topic: DSM-5

Hoarders and Marie Kondo split (A&E/Netflix)

Tidying up the decade

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Sam Alexander, Ben Alexander's father, assists Ben during a math language class at Tulane University in New Orleans. Ben Alexander, 22, has nonverbal autism, a condition that became apparent when he was 2 years old. (AP/Jonathan Bachman)

When autism is physically impairing

Matthew Rozsa
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Mental illness, redefined

Esmé Weijun Wang
(Zach Trenholm/Salon)

Does my dad have Asperger's?

Cary Tennis
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America is driving us crazy

Bruce E. Levine - Alternet
Temple Grandin

Grandin: Focus on the symptoms

Temple Grandin, Richard Panek
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Natasha Lennard

Prachi Gupta
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Psychiatry's last stand

Laura Miller
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Natasha Lennard
Your mental illness defined here

Rob Waters
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