The other defining feature of autism, for Kanner, was "an obsessive insistence on sameness": most simply in the form of repetitive, stereotyped movements and noises ("stereotypies"); then in the adoption of elaborate rituals and routines; finally, in the appearance of strange, narrow preoccupations — highly focussed, intense fascinations and fixations.
It seemed that this was a riot with extremely narrow preoccupations -- as riots may often be -- but not tagged to any sense of some alternative solution to ideas of resources, aging population and society.
Success depends on publishing in a handful of prestigious journals, which can be too narrow in their preoccupations.
In contrast, there has been relatively less impetus for understanding behaviors encompassing unusual, intense, and narrow interests or preoccupations (e.g., with specific aspects of objects or the environment), as well as repetitive routines or motor mannerisms.
Nevertheless, Eric Wesley's exhibition cleverly invokes some of the basic preoccupations of this narrow, conceptualist genre.
Intense preoccupation with a narrow subject, one-sided verbosity, restricted prosody, and physical clumsiness are typical of the condition, but are not required for diagnosis.
"When we discussed bootleg fentanyls in [past years], we warned that a narrow focus on one drug and a preoccupation with supply control and enforcement without substantial improvements in addiction treatment access (demand reduction) and safety measures (harm reduction) would result in even more toxic opioids that are easier to traffic entering the market," Virani told VICE.
You can see much of the DNA of The Narrow Road to the Deep North: the dual preoccupations of love and freedom; the complicated relationship between war and heroism.
On the balmy July evenings before the London bombings, the young men of Beeston had gathered on its narrow streets to trade exaggerated tales involving their preoccupation with fast cars, football, fighting and 'fit' women.
Murphy, a reporter for The New York Times who was on the scene that day, takes this preoccupation with chance too far, though, in his section "Narrow Escapes," about people who should have been there that morning but weren't.
Atkins didn't really help us by substituting for a narrow, obsessive fixation on dietary fat a comparably narrow, comparably obsessive preoccupation with carbohydrate.
