De opinion pages van de The New York Times hebben een serie artikelen over angststoornissen.
Het artikel van Mark Dow leest als een roman:
'He was about 12. Before he came to the special school, he’d attended a
public school where, every time anyone touched his desk, he declared the
touched part unuseable and covered it with masking tape. Once others
understood this, they touched his desk all the time, of course, until
only a square inch or so in the center remained uncovered by tape.'
