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The exact same “syndrome” that is labeled as pathological today, was in former times possessed by perfectly normal and ultimately quite successful boys.
Why do we place the blame on the person for not fitting in instead of examining how we allowed institutional structures to develop that pathologize a common and sometimes useful normal variant.
Pehaps we should call it VISD “Variation Intolerant Society Disorder” or perhaps just IM for “institutionalized Mysandry”
If 10-15% of the boys need drugs to sit in class, perhaps the better solution would be to, as in times of yore, stop making that 10-15% sit in class. My grandfather became an accomplished engineer with less than 3 years of formal education. The difference was that he lived in an age when the culture was less bureaucratic and hired ability instead of credentials (and fired incompetents).
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