#and begins focusing his thoughts more on american psychoing than his normal life that hes not really Attached to

[racmune]

and not to forget: killing as a reflection of the suppressed desire to be with another man, breaking down from the stress of forcing yourself to be "the perfect man", harming others being an easier fall from grace than becoming true to oneself whatever,

what im trying to say is gay sex wouldve fixed them

ohhhh the suppression of the desire to kill as a metaphor for the suppression of the desire to be with another man.... the desperate attempts to stop the need to commit to something 'wrong'. the slow break down of control and the deep seated guilt etc etc

[phroyd]

Psycho-Boy Michael Caputo, a Trump Appointee, is having a major Psychotic Breakdown! - Phroyd.

A top communications official for the administration’s coronavirus response urged President Trump’s supporters to prepare for an armed insurrection after a contested election and accused government scientists of “sedition” in a Facebook Live chat that he described in detail to The Washington Post on Monday.

Michael Caputo, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services, which is overseeing the coronavirus response, leveled the accusations and promoted other conspiracy theories in a Facebook Live event first reported by the New York Times. Caputo confirmed the authenticity of the video in comments he made to The Post.

“Since joining the administration my family and I have been continually threatened and in and out of criminal court dealing with harassment prosecutions,” Caputo said in a statement. “This weighs heavily on us and we deeply appreciate the friendship and support of President Trump as we address these matters and keep our children safe.”

Caputo’s comments come as Trump administration officials say they are seeking to build public support for a coronavirus vaccine but have faced a series of disappointing setbacks, most recently the release of audio in which the president admitted that he deliberately downplayed the virus when he knew it was “deadly.”

Trump installed Caputo in April after weighing whether to fire Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar over a series of damaging stories about Trump’s handling of the pandemic, according to three current and former White House officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe behind-the-scenes discussions. Allies persuaded Trump to not make such a change amid a pandemic, but instead to bring in Caputo, the officials said. (Trump denied reports that he was considering firing Azar at the time.)

Almost immediately, Caputo began exerting control over officials’ public appearances and statements; by early summer, he had extended that scrutiny to scientists. He and an adviser have faced mounting criticism in recent days for interfering with the work of scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, seeking to change, delay or kill weekly scientific reports they thought undermined Trump’s message that the pandemic is under control. Caputo has also sought to wield influence over when government scientists appear on television, telling officials that he approves such bookings.

Caputo is viewed as a Trump loyalist, but several White House officials said his behavior has been erratic and some of his ideas have been regarded as extreme. For example, he proposed the federal government spend millions of dollars on a professionally directed and produced documentary about the administration’s race to develop vaccines that he wanted to air at film festivals, said a senior administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The idea was rejected by White House communications aides.

In the Facebook video, Caputo criticizes government career scientists, the media and Democrats, the Times reported and Caputo confirmed. He said he was under attack by the media and that his “mental health has definitely failed."

“I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Caputo said in the video, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.”

Caputo also said the CDC, which is part of HHS, had a “resistance unit” that aimed to undermine Trump. Without offering any evidence, he also accused scientists “deep in the bowels of the CDC” of giving up on science and becoming “political animals.”

They “haven’t gotten out of their sweatpants except for meetings at coffee shops” to plot “how they’re going to attack Donald Trump next,” he said in the video. “There are scientists who work for this government who do not want America to get well, not until after Joe Biden is president.”

He also predicted that Trump would win the election but that Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, would refuse to concede. “And when Donald Trump refuses to stand down at the inauguration, the shooting will begin,” he warned in the video. “The drills that you’ve seen are nothing. If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get.”

Several Democratic lawmakers, including Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (D-Conn.), called late Monday for Caputo’s firing.

“Secretary Azar has a basic responsibility to ensure our public health experts are able to do their jobs, our covid-19 response is not undermined by misinformation or conspiracy theories, and the data used to inform our efforts is free of political interference,” Murray said in a statement.

Noting that Caputo has said the president asked him to oversee a $250 million campaign “intended to help America to get back to normal,” DeLauro said, “We now know this is a propaganda campaign that must be defunded immediately. It is not the mission of the Department of Health and Human Services to get the President reelected.”

House Democrats on the select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis also announced that they had launched an investigation into political interference in the CDC’s science reports on the pandemic.

The White House declined to comment on the controversy Monday.

Speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss behind-the-scenes conversations, a White House official said the president was aware of Caputo’s comments but that his job appeared to be safe for now. Nonetheless, the official said, some advisers were arguing Caputo should be demoted or removed because of concern that he could damage the administration’s efforts to build public confidence in a prospective coronavirus vaccine.

The official said the White House has also recently expanded its coronavirus vaccine messaging team, detailing staffers from other agencies in an “end run” around Caputo.

Senior White House aides have previously warned Caputo that some of his public comments crossed a line. Caputo deactivated his personal Twitter and Facebook accounts on Monday.

HHS released a statement describing Caputo as “a critical, integral part of the President’s coronavirus response, leading on public messaging as Americans need public health information to defeat the covid-19 pandemic.”

Several current and former administration officials have expressed frustration that Caputo seems more focused on the president’s political fortunes than on combating the pandemic. Caputo denied that, saying that while he cares about the president’s electoral prospects, he is most worried about the deaths and suffering caused by the pandemic. He noted he has urged friends to wear masks. “If you don’t wear a mask, you’re part of the problem,” he said in the interview.

As a former radio talk show host, Caputo said he used to host such Facebook Live events every Sunday until he took the assistant secretary job in April. Since then, he has done two or three such events to talk about the pandemic response.

He said he spoke about being in personal danger on the Facebook Live video because a car had stopped in front of his Buffalo-area home, where he was shooting the video, and a man rolled the car window down and twice yelled profanities and threatened his life.

Since Caputo has been in the HHS job, he said, his two young daughters, now 6 and 8, have been harassed constantly. One man is being prosecuted for yelling profanities at them when they were playing outside, he said. The Post could not immediately confirm that case.

During the video, Caputo said questioners asked whether he would stay in the job because of mounting criticism of his team’s interference in the work of CDC’s weekly scientific missives aimed at the nation’s doctors, known as the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports. He said he expected to remain in his post.

Caputo was an unusual choice for the top health communications job in the government, especially in the middle of the worst public health crisis in a century. A New York public relations specialist and political consultant, Caputo served as campaign manager to controversial businessman Carl Paladino in his unsuccessful bid for governor of New York in 2010. Caputo began working with Trump in 2014, first to assist Trump’s unsuccessful bid to buy the Buffalo Bills that year and then, in 2016, to assist Trump’s efforts in the Republican primary for president in New York.

Caputo remained in the public eye, particularly after the appointment of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III in 2017. In frequent interviews, Caputo bemoaned the investigation and the effect it had on Trump allies who faced hefty legal bills as they received subpoenas and requests for interviews with investigators. When the investigation wrapped, Trump hosted Caputo for a meeting in the Oval Office and took pictures with his family.

Caputo himself drew the attention of Mueller’s investigators in part because he had had contact with a Russian who offered damaging information about Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign.

In May 2016, Caputo said, a Russian man approached his then-business partner, Sergey “George” Petrushin at an art gallery opening in Florida, claiming to have information that could be helpful to Trump’s campaign. Petrushin connected him with Caputo, who arranged for him to meet with political operative Roger Stone, a longtime friend.

According to the Mueller report, which described the episode, investigators found no link between the Russian man’s outreach and the broader effort by Russia to interfere in the 2016 election.

As a political adviser and public relations specialist, Caputo also had lived for a time in Moscow in the 1990s, where he worked on a campaign reminiscent of “Rock the Vote” on behalf of then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin.

Returning to the United States, Caputo took a contract in 2000 working for the Russian conglomerate Gazprom Media to improve Vladimir Putin’s image in the United States. He later told the Buffalo News that he was “not proud of the work,” adding, “at the time, Putin wasn’t such a bad guy.”

[nipponnomad]

Translation: ONE-Sensei Young Sunday Interview :D

I did my best to summarize this hour-long interview with ONE-sensei, uploaded to YouTube by Young Sunday in March and uploaded to Tumblr by the lovely and talented @one-blog last week. Please note, while my Japanese is decently high-level, I typically translate written Japanese rather than spoken Japanese (which, by its very nature, is harder to translate), so there might be mistakes here or there. That said, I believe I captured the general gist of things. If you're fluent in Japanese and want to do a more comprehensive translation in the future, please feel free!

EDIT: Here are some more detailed translations of selected parts of the interview, based on Japanese transcripts that @isasm found. :)

ONE-SENSEI: YOUNG SUNDAY INTERVIEW

Things to note:

-I mostly focused on what ONE said, as the hosts talked a lot and tended to get off on tangents.

-ONE comes across quite shy in this interview, especially in comparison to the super-chatty hosts. There are times when the hosts start to ask him a question and he doesn't seem to know what to say. There are also a few times where it looks like ONE is honest-to-god dissociating. That said, it's a good interview that includes some pretty insightful commentary.

-ONE is forced to sit in the creakiest wooden chair known to man.

-Maybe this is common knowledge, but is ONE married? You can see what looks like a wedding ring in a lot of shots.

-Instead of “ONE-sensei,” the hosts refer to ONE as “ONE-kun” throughout. I'm not sure why. It's kind of cute though.

The Interview: ONE's Life Story

The hosts begin with small talk, chatting about a new album they've listened to, and introducing ONE-sensei and his work in general terms. ONE doesn't actually show up until about nine and a half minutes in. The hosts ask if he's seen their show before and he says he has, that he watched it after he was invited to appear on it. The hosts seem quite pleased and amused about that.

ONE is asked what sorts of activities he did in middle school and high school. He responds that he did tennis in middle school, but he wasn't at a super high level. Because ONE comes across pretty shy and self-effacing, the hosts joke that they can now understand where Mob Psycho came from. They then announce that they're going to do an abbreviated life history for ONE, who says he's nervous.

ONE says he was born on October 29th, 1986, and is a Scorpio. His birthday is next week or the week after next (from when this interview was filmed). The hosts remark on how he's relatively young.

ONE says he was born in Niigata but raised in Saitama Prefecture, where he's lived for 22 or 23 years. His hometown is near Kounosu (wherever that is). He specifies that his town shares a DMV with Kounosu, which is such a charmingly mundane detail. :P

The hosts ask what kind of kid he was. He says he was a normal kid, but “low tension” (i.e. low energy, quiet, laid back). The hosts say that that explains why his characters tend to be low tension as well. ONE agrees that might be the case. He says there are times when he gets more energetic, and the hosts tease him, implying that now is certainly not one of those times. ONE says he did get really energetic when the One Punch Man anime was announced.

How ONE Started Drawing Manga

The hosts ask how he felt when the One Punch Man anime was announced, and ONE says it was really awesome. The hosts remark that One Punch Man reminds them of American comics and is like a “Japanese Marvel.” ONE agrees that he has a similar image of One Punch Man and has always found its advent a little mysterious—like he doesn't quite know where it came from. ONE states that it's now been about three or four years since One Punch Man debuted in Ura Sunday and Shonen Jump.

ONE says that he started drawing manga in elementary school and can't remember exactly how he got started. He says he remembers reading Crayon Shin-chan on the shinkansen and stuff and trying to draw it (he specifies that he was very slow at drawing at the time). He says that Crayon Shin-Chan was an early influence on him, which the hosts find unusual.

The hosts ask about his upbringing and whether or not his parents were strict. It seems his family was a bit strict and he didn't show them his manga growing up—because he was embarrassed, but also because he expected he would be scolded for drawing manga instead of studying. So basically, he hid his manga hobby until he got to college. The hosts compare him to Kamuro from Mob Psycho, presumably because of the strict family.

The hosts ask if ONE ever submitted one of his comics for publication. ONE says he did submit to Shonen Jump when he was a first-year college student, but that it didn't go well because “it wasn't an interesting story.” He says the guy who reviewed his manga at Shonen Jump went through it really fast with a totally blank face and that ONE was sent packing pretty quickly.

Because the submission didn't go well, ONE started putting his comics on his personal blog. At the time, it was really hard to read the comic on your phone because you could basically only see one panel at a time and you had to go through all fifteen pages that way. Eventually, he started drawing manga on his computer and uploading it from there. He got really into the “pasokon manga” culture and bought himself a drawing tablet and downloaded Comic Studio.

He began uploading his work to a pasokon manga site where all the users were beginners or semi-professional. As far as I can tell, the site was called NEETsha, short for “NEET Shakai” or “NEET Society.” (Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on that one.) This was when he started drawing One Punch Man.

About One Punch Man

The hosts ask where the name One Punch Man (“Wanpanman”) came from. One host points out that it obviously sounds like Anpanman. Obviously it also sounds like One Piece (“Wanpiisu”), which is a sales juggernaut in Japan. ONE points out that actually “Wanpanman” outsells “Wanpiisu” overseas.

They ask what kind of character ONE was aiming for when he created Saitama. ONE says he always loved shonen manga and read a lot of it, and he thought about the final episode/battle, when the character was at their greatest strength. Basically, he thought it would be funny to start with a character who was already at the peak of their power and go from there, watching each successive villain get taken out in one hit.

Within the world of One Punch Man, the hosts note, Saitama is basically a regular person, he's laid back and flexible and his main concern is everyday stuff like going to special sales. They also note that Mob is similar, being a quiet type of guy who keeps a low profile until his percentage starts going up.

The hosts ask if One Punch Man immediately became popular after ONE posted it to NEETsha. ONE says it was pretty soon afterward, and that he enjoyed reading everyone's thoughts and comments and encouragement.

At this point, the hosts realize the interview is half over and they've totally forgotten about the personal history thing.

About Mob Psycho 100

As the hosts see it, there are three major themes in ONE's work: 1) What is power? 2) What should be done with power? 3) What is our true power, and how are we supposed to live with that power? We don't typically see the characters longing for more power; instead, we're dropped into the middle of the story and watch what they do after they've already become powerful. This is evident in Mob Psycho 100.

The hosts ask if the Mob Psycho manga has changed from when ONE put it online to when it was released in print. ONE says it hasn't really changed but it was worse reading it online because it was so small and hard to read on a cell phone screen. The hosts also ask if ONE has had assistants helping him to edit and fix things up, but ONE says they weren't there in the beginning.

The hosts look at some of the pages from Mob Psycho and comment on the art. When they compliment ONE's use of lines for emphasis in one picture, ONE says, in a self-deprecating sort of way, that he just did it using a tool in Comic Studio. The hosts also remark on the way Reigen holds a phone in one panel (you probably know which one) and laugh a lot. However, following this seeming criticism, one of the hosts keeps calling the art in Mob Psycho “punk” or “hip hop.” I had a hard time figuring out what he meant by that, but I think he's calling it a sort of indie, outsider art. He goes on to say that it's not like how everyone else draws and isn't imitating the prevailing manga style.

The same host states that there are two kinds of mangaka: 1) the “cover band” type that imitates others without really thinking for themselves, and 2) the type that doesn't imitate others and thinks for themselves. For example, many “cover band” mangaka imitate the battle scenes in Dragonball, whereas the ones in Mob Psycho look—if anything—more like battles in Akira. The hosts ask ONE if he was inspired by Akira. ONE says he likes Akira but doesn't really answer one way or another.

The hosts have been talking a lot, so they interrupt themselves to ask if ONE wants to correct them on anything. ONE has just one thing he wants to say: when he was drawing the picture of Reigen holding the cell phone, surprisingly enough, he drew it while looking at his own hand. This comment gets big laughs.

Themes in ONE's Work

The hosts discuss the issue of “leveling up,” comparing it to “geemu nou” (“game brain,” a type of dementia allegedly caused by playing too many video games). In English academic discourse, we would probably call this “gameification.” Basically, people who play a lot of games—as well as the protagonists in a lot of shonen manga—become obsessed with “reaching the next level” and don't focus on anything else. The hosts ask ONE if there's some sort of lesson in his work about the dangers of this type of single-mindedness.

ONE says that he's noticed this tendency in shonen manga. By contrast, he discusses the series he was influenced by as a child, Crayon Shin-chan—specifically, the movie version of Crayon Shin-chan. As a series about a normal family, Crayon Shin-chan was generally fairly peaceful and funny. However, in the movie, things got kind of serious. ONE believes that, when things get serious in a gag series, they hit extra hard.

He compares this to One Punch Man. Even though it's a gag manga, the world itself is pretty serious, with people being killed by monsters all the time and so on. Existence itself is like a gag in the world of One Punch Man, which ONE finds interesting.

Finally, the hosts show pages from the fight between the esper kids and Claw's 7th Division. They discuss the part where Mob very calmly and directly tells Gas Mask Ojiichan: “Having psychic powers won't make you popular.” Gas Mask Ojiichan then gets upset and yells: “EVEN SO, I SHOULD BE TREATED SPECIAL!” So basically, Claw is full of children who never managed to mature into adults and don't want to become “commoners.”

ONE then talks about “commoners,” average people who get up in the morning, get on the train to go to work, and do their best day after day. ONE thinks that this in itself—being a member of society—is difficult in its own way, and that's what Saitama and Mob are trying to do.

I feel like that's a really lovely way to end the interview. Sadly, they never finish the personal history and we never find out what ONE's favorite food, color, movie, manga, and type of woman are. :(

[corenaks-blog]

Opinion Series Final Draft

Corena Kelly

Professor Burton

ENGL 2010-074

14 October 2019

Opinion Series Final Draft

Audience 1: People who like scholarly sources (doctors)

There is never going to be a “no” to anything because there’s always a way to prove something. Even if there are 10,000 ways not to do something, you can still prove that there are 10,000 ways not to do something. Thomas Edison said, “I didn’t fail 10,000 times, I just figured out 10,000 ways not to make a lightbulb.” So you can’t prove that dance is not beneficial to people with mental and physical difficulties because there may be one person out of three million that it could help. So far, there has been only a little research but they are continuing to do the research and will continue to do the research until they have exhausted all of the possible outcomes.

Dance is beneficial to people with mental and physical disabilities and difficulties. Dr. Rebecca Gilbert, American Parkinson Disease Association Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, said that some benefits of dance and dance therapy for people with Parkinson’s Disease are: “Imposing rhythmicity on movement, providing exercise: dance can be a source of aerobic exercise and provides a fun way to increase a person’s fitness level, [and] working on balance and coordination.”

In an article called “Dance Movement Psychotherapy with an Adult with Autistic Spectrum Disorder: An Observational Single-Case Study.,” NHS professional Julie Wadsworth talks about the steps within a 45 minute period that were taken to help an Autistic person choreograph movement. The main subject of this article was a 23-year old man called “Mike.” “Mike had been admitted to hospital several times throughout his life. He was considered to be socially aloof interacting minimally with others and had some noise intolerance. He presented a risk of self-injury and physical aggression to others who had precipitated his admission to the specialist assessment and treatment unit.” This article gives statistics and an experiment on a particular patient. They did do similar experiments on other patients but focused on “Mike” for this particular article. This allows you to see statistically what changes or outcomes can happen for someone who is Autistic and uses dance.

Mike began by choosing an emotion, then he used tools and props that allowed him to have a sensory experience, then he practiced mirroring where he have to have eye contact and interaction (which is where a lot of social issues come up). Next, he created dance movements that told a story in six parts: a character, a setting, a task, an obstacle, some help, and an outcome. This then allowed Mike to do this choreography. Afterwards, he was again asked to pick an emotion based on how he was feeling. The experiment resulted in Mike being happier at the end of five out of seven dance therapy sessions.

I will use this source to share a particular story and experiment that was done in a very specific way that shows how much we have learned and how much more there is to be learned about dance and dance therapy being used to help people with mental health issues. 

Doctor Sabine C. Koch gathered the results from various studies about dance therapy experiments and created an article with statistics about these results. In this article called “Effects of Dance Movement Therapy and Dance on Health-Related Psychological Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis Update,” she said, “ Results suggest that DMT [Dance Movement Therapy] decreases depression and anxiety and increases quality of life and interpersonal and cognitive skills, whereas dance interventions increase (psycho-)motor skills.” Honestly, I could go on and on about these articles, but ultimately this is a great article to look at because it gives such in-depth statistics that I cannot even begin to summarize to you.

Audience 2: The average person on social media

Do you want to help your community? Do you know or love someone who has mental or physical health issues? If so, I would like to take a minute to talk to you about and show you a possible solution or treatment method that you can easily get involved in. Dance! Most people see dance as an interactive social activity. It can also be very entertaining to watch if you’ve ever gone to a performance or seen a competition. But little do most people know that dance can also benefit mental and physical health. Dancing is moving, and there are many physical and mental benefits to moving and staying active. Most people picture running when they are asked about physical exercise, but dancing is also a workout! Not only is it also a workout, but it is also very involved with the self. Dancing gives people a chance to express themselves through their bodies and body language, and to use their bodies and movement to share how they are feeling. So dance has multiple physical and mental benefits.

You don’t have to know anything about dance to get started in dance and dance therapy! One example of this is two young kids with Autism who take a dance class. Upworthy made a video about these kids. The video shows two autistic kids that cannot socialize properly in today’s society use dance to improve their communication skills with other people that are part of this society. People with autism have a hard time communicating their thoughts and feelings in a way that makes sense to most people. They also have a hard time understanding others in a social environment. Dance helps them learn how to communicate the way they feel in a way that doesn’t hurt them and doesn’t bother others. One of the students in the video is a boy named Chris who is eight years old. His mom talks about how Chris tends to have a lot of movements and make a lot of high-pitched noises. Chris’ mom then talks about how there are very few places in society where she can take Chris and he will be accepted for who he is. Then the video shows Chris in dance class, and he is accepted there.

https://www.facebook.com/Upworthy/videos/401872930335826/

Not only can dance and dance therapy help kids— especially Autistic kids— but it can also help older people such as our grandparents and great-grandparents. Do you have a loved one— a grandma, grandpa, great-grandma, or great-grandpa— who has Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Dementia, or a similar health issue? If you do, here is a way you can help them while also bringing you closer to them and giving you an opportunity to learn about where you came from. 

Here is an example that shows what a powerful influence dance and dance therapy can have on people. It starts with a healthcare professional named Anicea. She made a video showing her doing her own experiment with a patient. This patient cannot walk well because he has Parkinson’s Disease, which is a disease that causes nerve cell damage in the brain. When he does try to walk, it looks more like a sad shuffle and his walker drags on the ground obnoxiously. The experiment that she does utilizes music to help the patient walk (without his walker) twice the distance in the same amount of time as it takes to walk down the hallway with his walker. The video ends with the patient even dancing with Anicea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDjQ7lKmH3s

Audience 3: People who have an interest in the topic because they know a little bit about it (dance teachers, people with health problems)

Are you someone who is looking for research about treatment methods for Autism, Parkinson’s Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease, or Dementia? Do you like getting your information straight from the source? If so, I encourage you to continue to read! Dance can help treat both mental and physical health problems. I had an opportunity to talk with three different people in different fields: a dance teacher, a homecare medical assistant, and a general practitioner. They all had different views, but all communicated to me that dance is beneficial to physical and mental health. This is some of the information that they shared with me.

The first interview was with a dance teacher by the name of Anthony Guerra. He, as a dance teacher, strongly believes that dance is one of the most popular performing arts but also one of the most underrated and underutilized forms of help for a variety of issues. Mr. Guerra gave a long list of physical health benefits, but also said that dance can help with “increased confidence and self-esteem, improved mental functioning, improved general and psychological well-being, and better social skills.” Even if you’re skeptical at first, I strongly suggest trying dance and evaluating how you (or your loved one) is feeling both physically and mentally. It is not difficult as a dance teacher to help those with mental or physical health problems, it just takes a little more patience (which is something that everyone in this world could use a little more of).

The second interview was with Dr. Nick Top at U.V.U. Student Health Services. He was unaware of anything helpful but said that it is important to do the research about the medical benefits of dance and that we should continue to do research about this topic. This proves to me that a normal, everyday doctor that you would go to and seek for treatment has no idea about this real solution that could benefit you even more than any medication. So council with your doctor about what your physical limitations are but do not be afraid to seek treatment outside of traditional medical consultations. Similarly, dance teachers and people in the dance community should be open to experimenting with dance as a treatment method.

The final interview was with Mrs. Miller, who is a healthcare professional that works with elderly people in hospice. She didn’t know anything in particular about autism and Parkinson’s Disease, but she said that she did have experience with people with Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease. She said that people who have these conditions that she’s worked with could be someone who “can’t talk and is just making noises and blubbering and [you can] have them listen to music for 30 minutes to an hour and then try to have a conversation with them and they can communicate and have a conversation with you.” There are always different ways and resources to receive what you need and medications aren’t always the answer. Sometimes, things like dance can open up doorways and be helpful but we won’t know about those doorways until we try them. Additionally, dance has medical benefits for a wide range of issues.