(1) I dunno about other countries but the blackboard jungle has gotten worse in the US since I was a kid.

I was one of only two dudes who showed up at a P.T.A. meeting, the other was the superintendent. He told me I could talk to the hand about my concerns about my son's situation in school whereas he told the mother of a "special" kid that she was a valued partner in his education because she could write a letter to Albany and the folks there would light a fire under his ass.

When I was a kid they tried a lot of things to accommodate me except what I really needed, but they tried. Today you have to have autism or ADHD or some diagnosis just to go to the bathroom during class. With an ADHD diagnosis you can get performance enhancing drugs and extra time on the test, no wonder it is a vanity diagnosis for rich kids. On Youtube you can see many self-diagnosed AuDHD women who look borderline PD to me.

(2) See

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-23999-003 (and I am not autistic but ask your shaman if therianthropy is right for you!)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30849096/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358882845_The_Shama...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_death (magic is real but it takes a village to pull off that feat and like other feats that are common in traditional societies you don't need psi or other violations of known laws of physics to explain them)

https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12192/persuasion-and-h...

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purple-leafy 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don’t really know what to say to you, but you’re speaking to someone diagnosed with ADHD.

To say that it’s a vanity diagnosis for rich kids is hilarious to me.

If I could go back in time to have been born with a “normal” brain I would do so.

It is not and has not been a privilege living with ADHD. Diagnosis or not, life has been an uphill battle and society does not accommodate people with various brain-level divergence from the norm.

To say that it’s a vanity diagnosis, and then talk about voodoo in the same sentence is wild to me.

	▲	oliculipolicula 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Fwiw for PP "rich-kids" means "anybody born in EU or USA" I think PP might even have been diagnosed with ADHD/autism at some point?? PP was trying to express that he doesn't want even want to live like a middle class no more (hence the traditional society)

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brandgefahr 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Boy... that escalated quickly.

Thanks for all the links though. I'll have a look into it, seems very interesting tbh.