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The Hardships That People Mask by Ann Bauer at Brownstone Institute Like so many of you, I’ve spent the past few days imagining and dreaming about what the Reiners’ life was like. It is horrible, unnatural, unimaginable. Only, I have a small window into it. Sixteen years ago, my then-20-year-old son went through a period of darkness and mania and violence. It came on suddenly - as his autism had when he was three - and gripped our entire existence. Mine, my husband’s (his devoted stepfather),...