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eLetters: Four paws up
In response to: Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood: a neurodevelopmental perspective on A.A. Milne

Isabel
Affiliation: None
Posted on: January 3, 2001


I enjoyed the article tremendously, and enjoyed reading the responses, particularly those whose authors made the effort to take the parody in a new direction.

I'm sorry some are taking it too seriously, but I'm a former emergency nurse and someone who has buried three of my favorite people recently, and I'm very much in favor of laughing at what is too tragic or painful to think of for long. Of course it's a horrid travesty to medicate children whose fundamental needs should be met instead. Of course it's outrageous to pathologise character differences. Of course it's silly for trained professionals to spend their time on a charming, well-wrought spoof. That's the whole point. That's a marvelous, free return on years of training, hard work, observation, and the constructive use of clever minds.

I love it. Thanks for brightening my day -- and that of dozens of my closest friends and relatives (and if some of us are of different species, it would explain a lot :).

 

 

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