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On ADD/ADHD, Huffington Post Articles, and How People Respond to Things
Awesome photo. Love to know who made it. My friend sent me this article on the Huffington Post and it bothers me for multiple reasons. Not just what Katie Hopkins said, but also the response of adults below who think that they are defending people, when really they’re just insulting and bullying a woman who clearly doesn’t understand ADD/ADHD. I understand that Ms. Hopkins feels that it is the diagnosis de jour, and perhaps it is, but I don’t think she understands what it really is. She also feels that having a diagnosis is an excuse for students not to do work, to take it easy, or to not take…
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Surviving the World
I love the blog Surviving the World. By their own description, the blog is: “a webcomic focusing on all shades of life, from science to literature, politics to sports, romance to religion, and everything else in between”. It’s run by Dante, a chemical engineering teaching professor at Northeastern in Boston who was awesome enough to grant me permission to post this, and I discovered it while teaching in Fall River, MA. Usually, their pithy, pointy, and well-informed. Make sure you check out the site. For example, this is one of my favourite ones: Lesson #1238 – Harassment
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G.R.R. Martin on why he can write female characters…
What a shocking concept! 😛