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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<description>The exact same &quot;syndrome&quot; that is labeled as pathological today, was in former times possessed by perfectly normal and ultimately quite successful boys.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;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.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Pehaps we should call it VISD  &quot;Variation Intolerant Society Disorder&quot; or perhaps just IM for &quot;institutionalized Mysandry&quot;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;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).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The exact same &#8220;syndrome&#8221; that is labeled as pathological today, was in former times possessed by perfectly normal and ultimately quite successful boys.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Pehaps we should call it VISD  &#8220;Variation Intolerant Society Disorder&#8221; or perhaps just IM for &#8220;institutionalized Mysandry&#8221;</p>
<p>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).</p>
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