The first thing I have to say about my work in special education concerns the stress that accompanies any new experience. During just the first week on the job, I had a nightmare in which the students were playing on the playground during break, and a bear came along and carried one of them off. That anecdote might sound funny now, but at the time, my concern about providing the best possible care for students with autism caused me tremendous anxiety; despite my years of expe

Movies are prolific in showing us serial killers, like Art the Clown. When I was a child entering puberty, I confess that I was an avid consumer of horror movies due to the lack of control at home over my TV habits. From the classic Dracula (1931), starring the eternal Bela Lugosi, to The Mummy (1932), featuring the incomparable Boris Karloff, to the most ridiculous one I had ever seen, like The House By the Cemetery (1981), with unbearable gaps in the script but effective

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