“The place was filled with older people. One of the security guards saw how young my girls were and said, ‘What are you two doing here?’ I told him that my daughter Roxanne is autistic and she has always loved the Beach Boys music,” she recalls. “He said, ‘Come with me’ an...
Very few people are pure introverts or pure extroverts, and—to be blunt—you don’t really want to be. A pure introvert or extrovert probably has a psychological disorder or phobia. For instance a pure introvert that doesn’t want to be around ANY people probably DOES have some severe ph...
It used to be that the smart kids went to graduate school. But today, the workplace is different, and it might be that only the desperate kids go to graduate school. Today there arenew rules, and new standardsfor success. And for most people, graduate school is the path to nowhere. H...
The result is a segregation of childless adults and parents, meaning that many people who don’t have kids can feasibly go about life without having to interact with children in any significant way, Carbone says. At the same time, parents oftenstop socializing with their childless friendsin fav...