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Hi, I'm Anne Strangeamps. You probably know what it feels like to be an outsider, not part of the inn crowd.

That used to be a bad thing, but not anymore.

Here's to the crazy ones.

The rebels, the troublemakers, the ones who see things differently.

While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.

Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

Today, unto the best of our knowledge from PRI, how misfits, outsiders, geeks, and rebels gained social status and economic clout.

To the point that today, you could say, the outsiders are the new in-crowd.

So one of the books that got us thinking about this is Alyssa Quartz, Republic of Outsiders,

the power of amateurs, dreamers, and rebels.

Her definition of outsider is pretty expansive,

ranges from indie filmmakers and musicians to transgender activists and bipolar pride supporters.

For example, she writes about the Icarus Project. So the Icarus Project started it in 2002, and they were a couple of kids, really.

They were young people who had had nervous breakdowns, or that was how the world thought what had happened to them.

They had gotten to a state. They were sometimes young as college students and something

had happened. And they had been institutionalized. After that, there's a couple of people in this

group. One of them was Sasha DeBruill, another one is somebody named Jacks, Ashley McNamara.

And they decided they wanted to organize a movement, which would potentially offer alternative strategies for dealing with mental states, extreme mental states.

What do you mean alternative strategies?

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