"I'm not an isolated person.
It's true, but a voluntarily isolated person choosing not to eat until she's addicted to not eating doesn't make for a very good story.
(That's your early warning system on the blink: in Paleolithic times, it might have helped a highly isolated person to be hyper-alert to threats, but not any more).
"It's a stable situation, because in a way that isolated person helps define a group; people look at him and can say, 'I'm not like him, someone who doesn't fit in,' " Dr. Palinkas said.
"That could connect to people looking for work, and you then build a community around an isolated person.
No one wants to age into a querulous, isolated person.
As a really isolated person it's the first time she's had that experience and she's excited by it and fearful.
Disability Studies scholars argue that special needs isolates persons with disabilities from the general population (Rucker, 2014) and creates distance between persons with versus without disabilities (Finkelstein & Stuart, 1996).
