Families of people with severe autism say the repeated expansion of the diagnosis pushed them to the sidelines. A new focus ...

We’re told to just be ourselves, as if identity was something we turn on and off. Yet, we are often challenged to reinvent ...

Calling yourself an independent says something — you don’t like party labels — but it isn’t a one-size-fits all signifier.

“Independent” is what students of semiotics call an “ empty signifier ,” a term that has very little, if any, substantive content. If you describe yourself as an independent, I still have to ask you ...