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out being affected. Cautious quizzing of my family revealed nothing that might have made me especially susceptible to such influence.

2) As I still kept asking questions, I found that there is no excessive number of TVs represent- ing the group who went through puberty in the 1920's; there are TVs dating from EVERY period in history, and your 390 cases show about what would result in age distribution, if one allows for the unwilling- ness of the youngest to get involved, from TV affect- ing a certain low percentage of each generation since those born about 1890! So I retained my feeling of being a "born TV", and started to collect data in support of it. Here is what I have found!

3) First, a disclaimer; I am not about to de- fend or even discuss the glandular or chromosomal theories. Neither has ever seemed to me to be well supported and both are weakening fast as data builds up. My support all goes to the "cerebro-neural" viewpoint, which postulates nothing more nor less. than the existence of a semi-autonomous circuit in the brain that is capable of functioning as a sort of a "secondary personality". This theory has more supporters in Europe than here; it is considered "old-fashioned" by the Neo-Freudians of the U. S. despite the fact that Dr. Freud himself was inclined to such views. No doubt I had read of this theory at some point in my early life; at any rate, when my own mind began to show signs of operating in two distinct modes I took it for granted that sheila had her own area of brain tissue and that nothing could be done about it.

4) Oddly enough, support for this view comes from the fact that TVs can be "made" - but by purely physical causes. Dr. Karl Menninger, on page 34 of his "The Human Mind" cites a case of feminazation after a bout with encephalitis. Our friend Laura Stevens (35s2-FPE) has seen a case where a man de- pressed by business troubles was subjected to elec-

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