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February 27 - March 17, 2020
The limbic system is the part of the brain that detects things in the environment that we should pay attention to and sends an emotional signal about what to do in response: Avoid! Investigate! Eat! Fight! Flirt! Starting around puberty, the limbic system becomes more sensitive to stimulus, which is one reason teenagers become both more emotional and more interested in having new and intense experiences.
adolescence,
hot cognition.
“Even the brightest, best-meaning teenager doesn’t tend to think much beyond the moment, especially when they’re with their friends,” observes Gerstenfeld.
irredeemably
depraved,”
teenager Gwen Araujo in 2002.
It would be fourteen months before Sasha read them.
On Friday, November 8, everyone at Maybeck wore a skirt. Teachers, students, staff.
just wanted to say that Im still very sorry and I hope your getting better.
monster,
I’m a good kid if you get to know me.
violence
consequences
I
was hoping that I can meet you face to face so I can apologize to you.
hate ...
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thug,
gangster,
I’m not made to be incarcerated.
consecrated
assumptions.
chagrin!)
do I. It makes me smile to see Sasha being Sasha.
Jasmine’s cousin Regis, who is gay.
queer,
exasperation,
incredulity
anomalous
neo-Nazi community.”
Nobody who knew him could believe it. Richard was a goofball, sure, but hateful?
somberly,
“And he’s such a young person facing such serious consequences.”
Dermatome
“Not that it’s not a horrible crime,” one explained, “but it’s also a crime to try a child as an adult.”
dormitory
Three white boys on one black boy.”
Sasha was released from the hospital the next day, twenty-three days after
the fire.
‘An agender person was wearing a skirt.’ And that kind of bugged me, that I was being misrepresented in that way.”
urinary catheter
incredulous
“there are good people all over the city.”
wanted to see Richard tried as a juvenile, not as an adult.
decency”
constitutionality
egregious
“He was never a bad kid,” one staffer explained. “He’s just a needy kid.”
These days, Richard was serious. Withdrawn. The boys who knew him before said he’d gotten boring. He didn’t care about getting laughs.
