As in really shouting it. The wild oscillations in behavior and belief associated with TLE give Slater a neurological persona for her mischievous literary end. We are meant to wonder about her reliability as a narrator even to the point of doubting that she ever had any form of epilepsy. Further, as Slater wrote the book, she realized she was making its very structure conform to the stages of an epileptic seizure. In some recent work, neurological diversity frames ethnic diversity.
Price gets today's neurocentric view right on two counts.
When psychology ruled, psychobabble was plentiful. The rise of neurology is likewise echoed by neurobabble. Secondly, by alluding to the Tourette's association, Price pinpoints neurological difference as a new source of group and individual identity in our society. In fact, as blacks have called for whiteness studies, so HFAs, in effect, are now militating for NT studies. Brain scans are certainly one of the reasons for the success of neurology.