Most of my teachers loved me, and I had a largely happy school experience qua teachers, but beneath the placid lake was my mother fighting like hell to avoid me being classified as learning disabled for being wired a little differently than the other kids.https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1169484481369010181 …
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My school psychologist, on the basis of about an hour of conversation, became convinced that I had a witch’s brew of issues including ADHD, and that I would never achieve academic success without medication.
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Mom: “We have to fight this.” Me, an idealist: “Clearly we just have to show the report cards. I have never gotten other than an A in my life.” Mom, a teacher who knew how the game is played: “That is utterly irrelevant in the face of this piece of paper and so we will unmake it”
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(I inherited Dangerous Professionalism from both sides of the family.)
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Save us from the Twice Exceptional denialists.
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