<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" > <channel><title>Comments on: ADHD</title> <atom:link href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/04/adhd.html/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/04/adhd.html</link> <description></description> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:32:00 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <xhtml:meta xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="robots" content="noindex" /> <item><title>By: Anonymous</title><link>http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/04/adhd.html#comment-84791</link> <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:25:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/04/adhd.html#comment-84791</guid> <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> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>
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