just got a call from the american psychiatric association. you old dogs, i said, picking up on the first ring. how many times i gotta tell you to lose this number. i donât want you coming around here anymore. âlisten, toots, weâve been doing some thinking,â they says, and i says, guess thereâs a first time for everything. âyouâre a real funny dame, sugardoll. reviewing criticism, weâve determined that the biggest issue with our previous diagnostic and statistic manuals of mental disorders is the anonymity of it all. weâve been circling around a vague figure of the mentally well without defining the traits of a mentally well person. thereâs no personality. what we need is a cute broad with a couple opinions to model the psychological norm.â so iâm saying back up and give it to me straight: iâm the new standard of sanity? can i get that in writing? and they say, âas the american psychiatric association we hereby state that you are the baseline and any deviations from your personality are deviations from the very concept of sanity, at least in the united states psychiatric system.â theyâre making it public tomorrow. itâs a nice gig, if you really want to know. never thought theyâd let a woman do it.






















