not me trying to get a biz/entrepreneurship degree by paying 50k/yr to hide the fact that I’m working on my startup during class, only to watch free khan academy videos before finals to teach me the entire semester’s worth of content in 5 hours effectively
Harvard psych lecturer “If a child known for his sense of humor seems ‘less funny’ on medication, it could be that the medication is properly inhibiting them. In other words, it’s not that the child is less funny; it’s that they’re more appropriately funny at the right times.”
Young adults previously diagnosed with ADHD as children reported that by finding things that better suited their personalities, their ADHD symptoms disappeared. In other words, it never was a disorder; they were in the wrong environment. Being productive helped eliminate symptoms
One of the greatest evils of my 90s childhood was the sedation and casual drugging of young boys for acting like boys in a school system built for little girls.
And it’s only now that we’re finally allowed to ask questions. Decades too late.
Shoutout to my dad who gave me the world and to every person who plays the important role of a father 💙 my favorite poem by Rudyard Kipling in honor of Father’s Day —