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Following Fight Club, the terms "special snowflake" and "special snowflake syndrome" were applied to individuals with a negative connotation. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Such terminology refers to people who believe their status as a unique individuals means they are destined for great success, or deserve a special career, with abundant praise and admiration.
Visual snow syndrome (VSS) is an uncommon neurological condition in which the primary symptom is that affected individuals see persistent flickering white, black, transparent, or colored dots across the whole visual field. [7] [4] Other common symptoms are palinopsia, enhanced entoptic phenomena, photophobia, and tension headaches.
Chūnibyō (中二病, lit. ' middle-school second-year syndrome ') is a Japanese colloquial term typically used to describe early teens who have grandiose delusions, who desperately want to stand out, and who have convinced themselves that they have hidden knowledge or secret powers.
Although ephebophilia is not a psychiatric diagnosis, [2] the term pedophilia is commonly used by the general public and the media, at least in the English-speaking world, to refer to any sexual interest by significantly older adults in minors below the local age of consent, regardless of their level of physical or mental development. [11]
In contemporary societies, the appropriateness of childhood nudity in various social situations is controversial, with many differences in behavior worldwide. Depending upon conceptions of childhood innocence and sexuality in general, societies may regard social nudity before puberty as normal, as acceptable in particular situations such as same-sex groups, or unacceptable.
A 3,500-year-old clay jar at the Haifa Museum was broken to pieces by a five-year-old boy, sparking outrage. The post “A Disaster Waiting To Happen”: 5-Year-Old Breaks 3,500-Year-Old Bronze ...
An employee of a rural Kansas school district repeatedly shoved a teenager with Down syndrome into a utility closet, hit the boy and once photographed him locked in a cage used to store athletic ...
Malan syndrome is defined by initial overgrowth and mild-to-severe intellectual disability.Almost all individuals with Malan syndrome display above-average height, weight, and head circumference in early life, but only one-third of adults with Malan syndrome are >2 standard deviations above the mean.