On Kathleen Hale, "Slenderman": There is a saying: If you treat people like wolves, they will become wolves. Several years ago, in Wisconsin, an untreated schizophrenic man decided to have a child. (There would be a one-in-ten chance the child would also have schizophrenia, but I'm not sure that figure was known, in this case.) The little girl, Morgan, quickly began having hallucinations, but no one seemed to notice. She found RL Stine-adjacent stories about boogeymen in the woods. So she took a mallet to school, "for self-defense," and the mallet was confiscated. No one asked her to explain herself. She spent a day at home, then returned to class. Morgan asked to write a hagiographical report on Adolf Hitler, and she sometimes seemed to become a cat (through her posture and vocalizations). Adults wagged a finger and made notes about "attention-seeking behavior," and that was the end of the response. Eventually, Morgan persuaded a friend to help with ...