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The Atlantic is too often a vehicle for propagating the worst nonsensical lifestyle fads of America’s upper middle class
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High schoolers are seeking to abolish mandatory in-class presentations claiming that they're discriminatory to those with anxiety, @taylorlorenz reports on.theatln.tc/CgZpIMq
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Recently met a kid who dropped out due to crippling social anxiety and has been working out her own autodidact path since. I think there are genuine corner cases buried among the faddish ones. Kinda like fashionably gluten-free people vs actual Celiac’s sufferers.
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There are absolutely genuine cases. I know bc I have had students with a real psychiatric diagnoses and for whom accommodations are appropriately made. That’s a world away from mild nervousness and dislike of a task coupled with trendy high SES entitlement foot-stomping
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I had spectacularly extreme social anxieties in school. I was fortunate enough to have had Toastmasters Int’l volunteer at my school. I was a horrible stammerer. They bashed it out of me. Went into competitive debate & legal teams in HS. Essential skill for success and democracy.
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