There are times when individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities express themselves in ways which neurotypical people– family, staff, and strangers– cannot understand. For instance, if a person is typically calm and easy-going, but he comes to the Day Program for several days with his eyes wide and his frown permanently plastered on, and if he responds to every request with a, “F*** You!” we have to ask what’s really going on “behind the scenes”? Because