In this world where value is unknown, but the price of anything is marked, where the creation of self has been abandoned for the search for self, the behavior diagnosed as antisocial is often too quickly ascribed to intelligence when thrust into contact with widespread conformity, and refuses.

Glenn Hefley
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When someone refuses to conform to the crowd, they are often given a label of being so different from everyone else. The world has become so comfortable with the concept of conformity that anything that is not the same gets labeled as being abnormal. These labels can be damaging because many people may see them as an indicator of something wrong with the person who refuses to conform to the crowd.

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