A student at Oxford University quit her Politics, Philosophy and Economics degree after administrators at the elite British university dismissed her pleas for special treatment at exam time on account of her purported disabilities.
Sophie Spector, who is 22 and claims she has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, made a series of demands for accommodations to the college administrators. In a spectacular display of black knighting that will bring an amber glow to the heart of anyone who gets off on that sort of thing (and don’t we all?), Douglas Dupree, chaplain and dean of Balliol College, gave short shrift to Spector’s special pleadings. He mused in an e-mail to a University doctor, “Yes, why did we admit her?”
Dupree then went on to request that the problem student be referred to a doctor “who can be straight and firm with histrionics and panic.”
And what exactly did she demand of this ancient institution, which has honed the intellects of three former British Prime Ministers and the economist Adam Smith?
The key thing I wanted was extended time for essays because I am a really slow reader.
Sounds sweeter than the taste of tears.
A candidate for one of the toughest degrees at Oxford, one of the toughest universities in the Western world, is a “really slow reader.” It is equally nonsensical as, say, a quadriplegic expecting special arrangements so he can fulfill his dream of being a cage fighter.
Bailliol College did, however, make accommodations, as Spector relates:
I was given more exams with higher pass marks than everyone else. I had to get 55 to pass while my friend was allowed to continue with a pass mark in the 40s. I asked for extended deadlines for course work.
Spector says her request for extended deadlines was dismissed and that she “started to struggle and fall behind.” She reveals how she was again vehemently black-knighted by a (female) course tutor, who told her to just get on with it:
She suggested my disability was in my head and due to the Facebook and social media culture.
Frothing at the mouth at the university basically telling her to grow up, Spector rage-quit her course and lashed out at the College, calling their treatment of her “callous.” She then went to seek out the nearest firm of grievance-mongering human rights lawyers to launch a legal case against the university.
Playing the victim card is the sole preserve of the mediocre
In her media attack on the hallowed institution, Spector haughtily opined that “Oxford needs to be dragged into the 21st century, but it is doing it kicking and screaming.”
But does it? Oxford University is 752 years old, and has consistently hammered into competence the most brilliant of minds from across the spectrum of human endeavour. It suffices to say that forty-seven Nobel Laureates are amongst its alumni.
An alternative view might be that it is Sophie Spector who needs to be dragged kicking and screaming up to the standards of this elite institution, irrespective of how outdated she thinks its values are.
Mastery is blind to fashionable modern concepts such as the legal notion of discrimination, and concocted medical conditions like ADHD and OCD, both of which help all manner of mental subnormals to circumvent its rigours.
The proof of mastery is in the pudding. A truly exceptional work of the human mind stands apart from the author, from the process of production. No artist or scientist, other than the millennial saps masquerading under these titles in our modern time, has ever expected the world to accept their work at a lesser standard on the grounds that the author themselves were subject to some handicap.
An example to cosseted chancers like Sophie Spector, is Dawn Faizey-Websterm. Faizey-Webster suffers from “locked-in syndrome” a condition which leaves the sufferer aware but unable to move or communicate verbally due to paralysis of all voluntary muscles in the body except the eyes. In spite of this, she earned a degree in Ancient History from the Open University, using a computer that translates her eye movements into text. At the rate of 50 words per hour.
Can you compare that to Specter, the self-reported “really slow reader,” and not spill your coffee?
Millennials need made-up diseases to explain their inadequacies
On his death bed, psychiatrist and autism pioneer Leon Eisenberg admitted that ADHD is essentially a “fictitious disease.” Dr. Edward C. Hamlyn, a founding member of the Royal College of General Practitioners, said “ADHD is fraud intended to justify starting children on a life of drug addiction.” Leading psychiatrists have likened ADHD more to a social construct than a real disorder.
ADHD is said to be a scam because there are no laboratory or radiological tests or specific physical features attributed to the “disease.” There is also no known cure, so conveniently for the profit-making pharmaceutical industry, long-term therapies are required.
The smoking gun of ADHD’s bogusness is perhaps the differing rates of diagnosis and treatment across countries. French child psychiatrists view ADHD as having psycho-social and situational causes. Instead of of prescribing drugs, French doctors look for the underlying issue that is causing the child distress in the child’s social context rather than the child’s mind.
They then treat the problem with “talking cures” like psychotherapy or family counseling. American doctors on the other hand, tend to attribute all symptoms to a biological dysfunction such as a chemical imbalance in the child’s brain, and then prescribe psycho-stimulant medications such as Ritalin and Adderall.
Could it be that French doctors have come to the conclusion that so-called ADHD, in children at least, is simply a natural reaction to environmental factors like diet, schooling and family relations, which are best managed with practical changes rather than drugs? Could it be that Sophie Spector is an attention-seeking spoilt millennial brat who has found herself in the middle of a pitilessly rigorous institution of learning that simply refuses to put up with her tantrums?
Making a spectacle of one’s own victimhood is now a serious career choice
Sophie Spector is a victimhood huckster in a similar mold to Emma Sulkowicz, the eponymous Mattress Girl of late rape culture hysteria. Both are students who wallow in the abject mediocrity of their academic endeavours. Spector purports to study PPE at Oxford, whilst being unable to keep up with the pace of study. Sulkowicz, rape hoax aside, pretends to be an artist while producing only a cheap and gaudy stunt, the carrying around of a foam mattress, whatever the significance of it may be.
Both of them also streetwise opportunists, hip to an opening for a bit of cheap publicity off which to launch some sort of public profile as a martyr. Spector will no doubt go on to be a prominent (and well paid) campaigner for “disabled rights,” huckstering for extra government cash and more discrimination law to assist every self-acclaimed sufferer of one of the ever-growing compendium of made-up psychiatric diseases.
Sulkowicz is already playing the publicity game like a fiddle, having attended Obama’s State of the Union address at the invitation of Democratic senator Kirsten Gillibrand. She also recently released a film “reenactment” (read: low-budget porn movie) of her imagined rape.
To characters like Spector and Sulkowicz, the world, and the university campus in particular, is a virgin canvas to be defiled with the gaudy smears of one’s own embellished grievances. Little is thought nowadays of modesty, restraint and the idea of a reputation as something to be conceived of, much less preserved.
Mediocrity and faux-victimhood are now seen as a cause for celebration. In academic instituions, which are responsible for shaping the minds of tomorrow, this nonsense should not be tolerated even one bit. It is cause for celebration that in the case of Sophie Spector, the administrators of Oxford University have told the grown up cry-baby where to go with her insane demands for accommodation.
It’s not the end of social justice warrioring on campus, but it’s a start.
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At first, I thought I was looking at a picture of Edward Scissorhands. God damn!
And the other woman looks like a bastard daughter of Mr Ed.
Wilbur really shouldn’t have taken up drinking Scotch in the horse stalls.
She is a bastard miscegenation
Great analysis, great prose, great conclusion.
This is a really good op-ed, well done.
Well kudos to ROK for exposing yet another whining waste of flesh and space. When the Cultural Marxist Thought Police shoehorns victim mentality into brain dead millenials like the bint above, dedication and preserverance becomes outmoded values while fragile egos become the order of the day.
Outdated = pimp smacking entitlement and stupidity. Once upon a time stupidity was regulated with extreme prejudice. Now it is marked as patriarchy, grouped with racism as vile, and levied as an excuse to allow vile whores access to society and wealth. Say no to entitlement. Say yes to “patriarchy” whatever that is.
Slow reader? Suck it up, Hermione!
Reminds me of that SNL skit a while back. “I tried, therefore no one can criticize me”
http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/millennials-saturday-night-live-skit-parody/
So one attempts now to go to college and Major in Victimhood and minor in Special Snowflake Suffering. One willingly pays hundreds of thousands of dollars to do this. When they get out they are supposed to get a job doing this.
Its tough to see one of the top universities in the world ask the question, “Yes, Why did we admit her?” but at least, for an instant, a western university grew a brain and told her to pound sand. Black Knighting, yes, but black knighting at a university? Maybe there is hope for us after all.
Good article ROK.
Fuck this spoiled brat and her bullshit. If Oxford gave in to every demand this bitch had, she would have harassed the school into giving her a degree without earning it.
I worked with a woman who allegedly had ADHD and it was a nightmare. She disrupted the entire company and used ADHD as an excuse to be an asshole. She was a compulsive liar and to make it worse, a feminazi. Whenever a man had a disagreement with her she would call them a misogynist and ramble on about the patriarchy. The women at the company hated her too because she was a flake and loved to play the victim role.
She ended up getting fired and is still running around causing trouble everywhere she goes.
I got so fed up with a co-worker that I finally did up a whistleblower letter. It was used to terminate me because it was determined to be “vexatious”.
These people are such a pain in the ass.
Damn, that’s fucked up. Does she still have that job?
ABSOLUTELY! Still has her 100k/year job and recently won an award for being a great humanitarian. This cunt hasn’t done any of her seminars on ethics or mediation because she knows I will be alerting people to what she is all about. When I challenged her and the cuntocracy, a letter when to the College of Nurses questioning my “capacity”. That’s right anyone challenging them is mentally ill. Remind you of anything, like the old Soviet Union or China?
Until this happened to me, I never understood trauma. I never understood what had happened until I read the RoK article, “How to Survive a Modern Day Witch Hunt”. That’s why I read articles on this website
Every couple of months I google her name and keep an eye on her. She is forever in my metaphorical crosshairs
Go yap about your cat fight on Jezebel, we on ROK are not interested in your female psychotic ramblings.
Fuck off!
Be careful. If you’re keeping an eye on her it sounds irrational. You just want to let it go dude. Otherwise, it could easily become stalking/paranoia whatever.
I have let it go, but she is not going to do her fairy dust seminars on ethics. Anonymous notes works best. Waiting in the weeds…
The best whistle blower letters are written anonymously with no reference to the writer leaving no possible blowback
Hindsight is 20/20. I work smarter now.
Damn right. That is what makes oxford Oxford.
If they caved into the demands of every narcibrat, to lower their standards, they wouldn’t be Oxford…. they would be Columbia.
You have no right to compare the systemmatic killings of a race to a woman who wants equality. I hope you lose all your shoes and have to wear crocs
Good for Oxford. This is the second time I’ve seen this happen this year and I hope it signals a change in heart in academia. Students have to be held to objective standards and if they can’t cut it, tough.
http://college.usatoday.com/2015/05/13/nursing-student-sues-university-after-failing-class-twice/
Yeah man. It used to be that not just anyone could get into a college. Besides grades, they did personal interviews and were expected to graduate exceptional people. Today people think they have a right to college. And a college degree is becoming little but an extension of high school.
Agree. If they can’t cut it then they shouldn’t be at that university. Getting accepted at a particular school used to be an honor..and we know how women handle honor (they don’t).
It’s great to see some of them standing for the tradition of their institution and telling these snowflakes to beat it.
Oxford was the first to denounce the standardized test as a measure of academic value. Their degrees are also true degrees: you can get First Class, Second Class, Third Class or Ordinary. They make the enrolling freshmen declare up front which degree they desire, and their work must then be up to the standard of the degree they seek. Obviously, she chose First Class but only wanted to put forth Ordinary work. Not the first, won’t be the last. Hence, the nonchalance of the Dean.
Well education standards over here have dropped over the past 50 years thanks to the destruction of the grammar school system we had and speaking as a man who lives in oxford the amount of idiotic students that go to these universities/colleges here is shocking to say the least.
Just so you guys know… all of what ‘Eduardo’ says is wrong. I go to Oxford. Same as all UK universities – just harder.
Right. I went to Nursing school over 30 years ago. People like this woman end up in nursing administration, making policies and not knowing what end of the cat to take a rectal temperature on. They have NEVER done true bedside nursing.
what’s her PPE degree got to do with nursing? Any if you’re a veterinary nurse who takes the rectal temperature of cats, you are probably a little off base here
Good one
Spencer is just just a typical millennial female feminist who wants to play the victim and like so many millenials hasn’t been taught that life sometimes isn’t fair and the whole universe doesn’t owe you anything. I’m amazed a university told her to stick it, they are usually full of liberals, feminists and eqaualists.
Maybe she should carry her desk around the campus, as a demonstration of the burden of having to actually study for a degree, along with your peers.
Then she can make a sex tape (I would probably watch that one)… where she gets banged up the ass, but demands the guy go as long as possible, since her ADHD inhibits her orgasms.
In addition to all that, whatever thing is banging her should stop every few thrusts to obtain continual affirmative consent.
Don’t giver her or other Feminists ideas.
While I agree with the premise that the girls whining is misplaced I have to disagree with the general premise the ADHD is not real.
I will speak anecdotally with a sample group of two. Early on in my school career I was diagnosed with Dyslexia, sadly back then they had no Derek Zoolander school for kids who cant read and right so good. So I had to do the best I could getting through public school. Thankfully my parents had the resources to get me some extra help and would advocate pretty strongly for me as I went through junior, middle and then high school. It was extremely frustrating to be constantly told, “Little Jhonny is such a bright kid, if only he applied himself more”. I tried my fucking ass off all the time. It was mind boggling that I could do some subjects so very easily and on others I would be utterly hopeless. To be placed in all sorts of gifted classes but also have to take remedial reading and writing was exasperating.
Only when I was 35 years old was I actually diagnosed with ADHD. all of a sudden a life time of very peculiar struggles came into focus for me. I spent a lot of time reading up on what it means, how it presents, what it is not and how best to try to manage it. I did try different medications, I hired a life coach to help me organize myself in areas of my life I had always struggled with and learned how to manage my unique difficulties while leveraging my innate strengths.
For the first time in my life I could understand at least why I had suffered in places like a traditional school setting and with certain life tasks and why I had excelled at others things far past my peer group. It was a huge weight off my chest to begin to understand why I struggled so much in certain areas of my life.
I can assure you that it has serious physiological effects. E.g. the first time I tried cocaine, all my friends are bouncing off the walls and ripping it up and for the first time in my life I knew what it felt like to be normal. Calm, centered, focused and able to regulate my attention. I have found I have similar reactions to most powerful stimulants which are quite different to those of more “neuro-typical” people I know.
Over the years my undiagnosed condition lead to serious setbacks for me in many regards. I didn’t whine about it, I didn’t know about it, I just did my best to get along.
To be clear, it presents a lot of problems in your life but if harnessed it creates a lot of opportunities as well. These days I can see it as an advantage as much as I can experience it as a liability. I have pulled off shit in creative fields and sports that are mind boggling in their success. I have won multiple world championships and competed at the very peak of my sport (Where I have found a unique concentration of ADHD types). Had I not had the hyper-focus that ADHD periodically offers I could never have got to where I did. Had I not been blessed with the risk taking behaviour it confers on those types.
To be clear ADHD is about attention dis-regulation. some times you can have incredible focus where everything else in life simply goes away and you can work like a madman for days on end on a very complex problem, then you are cursed with days of not being able to drill down on the most simple and mundane tasks. The unfortunate part is that you don’t get to decide when that happens. You have to develop strategies that allow you to capitalize on the hyper focus times and how to minimize the set back incurred by times of low to no focus.
The Red pill ironically is an excellent way to help manage the condition. Good diet, lots of exercise and playing by your own rules all help a lot. Had I not started my own business, I’d be fucked trying to march to some corporate overlords drum.
So to be clear, it is my personal responsibility to manage my condition and the effects it has upon me and those around me.
Case number two, my son. He has also been diagnosed with Dyslexia and ADHD. Luckily for him we caught it early and we have the resources to do something about it. In public school he was dying, just shrivelling up from a bright little boy into a reclusive mope. The public school system was not able to offer him any help. So we got him into a specialist school as soon as we could afford to. I have watched him catch up three full grade levels over two years and has gone from “If only he applied himself” to almost straight A’s across the board. With some proper help he has blossomed into a charismatic and happy little guy who can now fulfill his potential. I vowed to not let him suffer as I did when I was a kid not knowing why I struggled so much. I’m glad I did or he’d be in the school for kids with behavioural issues by now labouring to get along in a Marxist thought academy run by Femnazis. To be clear, we don’t feed him drugs to manage his condition, we teach him adaptive strategies for how his brain works and how to plug into the rest of the world in a way that works for him. again, the Red Pill is a big part of that. Having the power to see that many things in the world are not what people say they are, that they are fucked up and that he has the power and the responsibility to re-write things to suit his needs. That it is morally correct for him to do such a thing.
I am very proud of my eleven year old and how far he has come in a few years in his training. A few more years and he’ll be onto cultivating dark triad traits on the ladies.
So to the author and others I encourage you to reconsider your dismissal of ADHD as bullshit. Personally I think of it as a form of a traditional masculine brain that must be pushed, challenged, given the hunt to be able to perform to its best potential. It is a form of thinking and acting that has been pilloried by the Cathedral as it is simply too dangerous to be allowed to flourish. It’s a very real condition that in fact has a great many positive parallels to the red pill movement and could in fact be one of the greatest possible sources of men who can see the truth and hold the Cathedral to account. So before you dismiss boys and men with ADHD as whiny pussies first consider what they can actually bring to the party. They have suffered many trials and those who are not broken by them are made stronger for it. Their natural risk taking tendencies make them more apt to tell Feminists etc to go fuck themselves as ADHDers suck at self sensorship.
I don’t want pity, I don’t really give a fuck if you agree with me or not, I can only know my own experience and that of my son. I draw this to your attention only for the men and boys who suffer from this and end up under the boot heel of the Cathedral. For those that don’t have the support that I was lucky enough to get.
Yeah, I agree. a.d.d isnt made up. I think the character of the doctor that amitted he made up the concept of a.d.d shows what a piece of shit he was. Trying to make a name for himself in academics by making up a disease then at the end of his life saying he made it up. Speaking for people that have it.its not joke. Whatever it is or isnt is still a problem to its victims.Ive had it all my life and continues to have an effect.Ive found out the hard way certain jobs and particularly the school environment is more challenging to anyone with a.d.d or a.d.h.d. Mostly distractions and sound wreaks havoc with someone with the problem. Insomnia and gettinga solid nights sleep is a problem too because the brain doesnt know when to shut down.Your brain can still be racing even if your physically exhausted. To make a long story short ,yeah this bitch at oxford wanted special treatment. Typical of a millenial and a female one at that too. Do what all the other sufferers of a.d.d did was suck it up ,try harder or fail and deal with it.
misdiagnosis
To be clear ADHD is about attention dis-regulation. some times you can
have incredible focus where everything else in life simply goes away and
you can work like a madman for days on end on a very complex problem,
then you are cursed with days of not being able to drill down on the
most simple and mundane tasks.
That sounds more to me like the mythical “muse” that artists and inventors used to credit for their rapid creation of masterpiece works of art, literature and technology, followed by going fallow and being raucous or withdrawn.
In other words, it’s not a defect of the human experience, it’s a feature, at least from a cultural and technological standpoint.
Just talking “adhd” here, not the very real and troubling problem of dyslexia.
I have had dyslexia all my life. I have graduated from a couple of prestigious universities and am ABD on my PhD. I cannot tell the difference between an image and its reflection; that is a printed lower case b and d are very difficult for me to differentiate. Lower case p and q are a similar problem. Correctly spelling debt was a nightmare before typing. Once I started typing everything I had fewer problems because I learned the letters by their QWERTY position on the keyboard.
I had a hard time with penmanship (no longer taught in grade school) and I had to concentrate very intensely to read. I often have to reread a paragraph with greater attention to detail because I have misread several words. I have made ways to overcome this by looking for context and for patterns in letters usage. In several cases the only way I could work out which was which was by writing a letter while not looking and then comparing it to what I was reading. Muscle memory took the place of visual inspection.
However, the only accommodation I ever asked for was for a particular Professor to use capitol letters on his multiple choice questions. The problem was that he liked to list the options in vertical while the answer sheet had them horizontal in two rows. It was hard to match when you can’t do it by just seeing the lower case letters.
Nice work and a good example for all to follow (to over come a problem in life).
There are actually real anatomical structural anomalies in the deep midbrain with patients who are afflicted with ADHD or ADHD-PI. This is a very real disorder. The only controversy is the ethics behind drugging children so readily vs. leaning towards more disciplined cognitive behavioral therapy. Like Asperger’s Syndrome, many ADD sufferers can be off the charts in terms of their intelligence quotient. It facilitates an unusual level of divergent thinking and creativity in both men and women. In this context its way more of a “gift” per se than a malady. The main drawbacks are disorganization and longer time for executive function transitioning (i.e. they can create unprecedentedly phenomenal work at the highest levels of functionality – but it takes them forever and all get out to finish tasks). This article misses the mark. These students are routinely accommodated with extra 30 min intervals on tests. It is reasonable from a clinical standpoint and it isn’t indicative that they will have difficulties performing later professionally.
They merged ADHD into the Autism spectrum anyway. Because they realised most people thought it was a bullshit diagnosis (which it is). Wheras if they tag it as a subsection of Autism (which most people probably think is real), then it lends it more credibility.
I think I’m of the mind to consider this like I consider “glandular disorder” when I hear it from a fat person. Sure, one in a million may have a legit glandular disorder, the rest however are just going with the flow and looking for an excuse for gluttony.
There probably is real ADHD in a very, very small number of people. I guarantee you however that it is not widespread and certainly not in 1 out of 1 young boys in this nation, as is currently told to us.
What exactly is Autism? Is it just a fancy word for low functioning and/or retarded.
the rare, real electrical dysfunctions would be caused by teratogens (and not really ADHD) but it won’t come out because that blames and shames women, anecdotal but I’ve observed most of the time the kids have zero discipline at home, charitably they haven’t learnt to self-discipline
the most intelligent shrink I ever knew said ADHD was BS pushed by the drug companies, fantastic woman, rarely honest
Pretty much. It differs from mental retardation, however, as most autists can function “normal” but have little quirks in their behavior and can appear “slightly retarded” as my teacher friend explained to me when I asked him what the difference was.
Actually, most functioning autistics are very smart, not at all retarded. They appear that way, because they function on a higher level than most people, and most people don’t understand them. So label them as retarded, when in fact they are just far beyond the comprehension of “normal” people.
the high scoring autistics are socially disconnected from our world, they may be very intelligent, but are incapable of communicating their thoughts or feelings in a way people understand. So there is no real way to know if they are retarded mentally or just retarded in their communication ability.
I could see that, I do remember him saying something to the effect of some of them being REALLY exceptional at one thing and below standard on most other things. I don’t know everything about autism but I had been hearing a lot about children being autistic about the last 5 years, I had never heard of an autist when I was going to school though so it almost seems like it’s a newer thing. Have they pin pointed a cause? This is one of those other things that I hear debated about often.
As far as I know there has been no cause identified. It appears to be different for each case. Some claim it to be genetic, others claim it is neurological and caused by infection/trauma/allergic reactions etc. Others claim it is caused through damage in the womb, either physical, from chemical abuse (even legal ones like tobacco, alcohol or some medication), or the effects of the mothers immune system or infection, during an illness within the mother.
This uncertainty is what lead some to believe the combined immunisation injections were causing it. Although that is purely based on the correlation between the increase in cases as these treatments began to rise, but has no solid evidence to prove it. It could be a coincidence, as the treatment came out, there could have been other social or environmental factors at play not related to the treatments.
I appreciate the information Leigh. Hopefully some day they will find the real cause. Take care now.
I worked with a South African guy who is a Rope Access Technician last year. Worked on a number of tasks involving working at height & setting ropes, cables, pulleys & connectors. Guy admitted he had ADHD. Pretty matter of fact about it. Had no problems having my life depend on this guy while bringing & setting up equipment & area.
The difference between you, my South African colleague & the girl from the article? Character.
You & my colleague have it & she lacks it.
the highs and lows you describe are actually bipolar, hence the drug non-reaction too, you’re misdiagnosed and probably have a form of dysthymia which presents with a symptom of attentional problems due to a brain structure called the cingulate gyrus
Dysthymia symptoms in adults may include:
Loss of interest in daily activities, Nope, just cannot focus when I want to
Sadness or feeling down, Not often
Hopelessness, I cannot do the shit I do if I felt hopeless, Like being awesome all the time, being a father, husband, business owner operator etc. Sorry, not hopeless
Tiredness and lack of energy, Sure, if I work 16 hour days that can happen, adequate sleep does miracles for this.
Low self-esteem, self-criticism or feeling incapable, Natural part of being an Architect is being self critical as its a required part of the job, but I don’t shit on myself constantly, its counterproductive.
Trouble concentrating and trouble making decisions, Yes when I am having attention disregulation issues I have trouble making decisions, when I am in my zone, I have no trouble at all.
Irritability or excessive anger, See sleep habits above, plus if people are dumb as shit, do I really have to bother to be nice to them?
Decreased activity, effectiveness and productivity, Not so much, I get a lot of stuff done when I am switched on.
Avoidance of social activities, What was I saying about people being dumb? I don’t engage in lots of social activities, but I am in no way afraid of them.
Feelings of guilt and worries over the past, What’s done is done, why burn psychic energy on it? Learn from mistakes and victories and move to the next battle. I found that when I got my ADHD diagnosis it actually was beneficial in allowing me to let go of past issues quite easily. Simply because there was a rational answer for so many of the challenges I had faced.
Poor appetite or overeating, Yes if I smoke a lot of weed I will eat irresponsibly, that’s why I do weed sabbaticals now for three months off, 2 weeks on, don’t want them man boobs. But my wife is also a trained chef, so when she cooks I have to admit I can get a bit carried away some times.
Sleep problems, Touche, I don’t get enough if I am busy
In children, dysthymia sometimes occurs along with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), behavioral or learning disorders, anxiety disorders, or developmental disabilities. Examples of dysthymia symptoms in children include:
Irritability, No I was fairly serene and easy going
Behavior problems, See above for serene and easy going. Sure I would blow shit up from time to time, but I wouldn’t call that a behavioural issue so much as a matter of boundary testing.
Poor school performance, See Dyslexia
Pessimistic attitude, Yep it was that downwer attitude of mine that got me to my first world championship when I was ten. It carried through my time on the National team when shooting for the Olympics and dogged me right up until I won all those events and started a business etc. No, not pessimistic, perhaps cynical at times.
Poor social skills,The girls didn’t seem to think so judging by their actions, I had what seemed like an ample supply of friends and rarely had trouble getting people to understand what I meant or wanted,.
Low self-esteem, Yes, this crept up on me over time in some regards, but I always had enough successes in various parts of my life to not feel like a sack of shit.
Having said all that, thanks for your input, I appreciate your thoughts. I have trust in my Psych who diagnosed me. He is the leading specialist in Canada for ADHD and it was a long and very in depth analysis that took three days plus multiple repeat visits. I was also diagnosed as having a co-morbidity of depression at the time (Decade ago). With a spot of therapy, coaching, self education, fitness and diet changes as well as a brief round of medication I was able to address the depression quite handily.
Diagnosis isn’t a checklist, the way you describe your difficulties suggest it as comorbid (well known for ADHD) and the drug thing really tipped me off. At least get it ruled out by a professional?
You’ve just described me with most of those symptoms.
Loss of interest in daily activities.
Sadness or feeling down.
Hopelessness.
Tiredness and lack of energy.
Irritability or excessive anger.
Decreased activity.
Avoidance of social activities.
Poor appetite or overeating.
Sleep problems.
Pessimistic attitude.
Poor social skills.
Low self-esteem.
Not continuously, but more often than not. Nearly every morning when I wake up, I feel like just giving up and staying in bed, even verging on suicidal contemplation. But I’m only a man, so it doesn’t matter, or so it would seem when I try seeking help. Maybe I’ll throw this at the doc ans see what sticks.
spector…. sulkowicz… see any pattern there?
Holy shit…both of their names start with “S”!
How did I miss this before?!?
Sulky Spectator material.
Yes, they’re both worthless western cunts and would be put to better use as fertilizer or pig feed.
The Spectre of Sulkowicz rears its ugly head.
Berelowitz (last week’s article).. Clattenburg (from that Snoop Dogg video posted later in this thread)… are you thinking what I’m thinking??
Good on Oxford for standing firm on its standards.
That degree she was pursuing would have been preparing her for holding responsibilities in public service or governance or some hoity toity admistrative role. Imagine if she’d somehow been given heavy responsibility & coming up with excuses for performance failure like ‘my department/office can’t meet the client’s mandate because 12 months in a year is just not fair’.
Oxford was wise to the fact that they had a potential incompetent on their hands.
Great article. Maybe there’s hope for western civilization yet.
All I have to say
Playing the victim card is the sole preserve of the mediocre
Brilliant
This is the perfect example of female entitlement mentality. When she is too fucking dumb to keep up with the curriculum, she DEMANDS that special provisions be made for her. Not only that, she fully expects this to happen – because she is a female and therefore a victim.
The total lack of shame and self-insight is typical for the 21st century female.
Agree with basic premise, ADHD is often over prescribed and in reality not that common. Agree that many use it as way to leverage themselves by gaining pity points. But I challenge you to rethink your claim that it is a made up disease. ROKs is doing a good job in terms of the red pill and masculinity/feminimazi’s, but in other parts I feel it has become a little predictable in some of its stances.
You know, it just dawned on me, and I mention part of this in passing below, that something very bad is going on here.
It appears that the West, under the “loving, guiding hand” of psychiatry and psychology and the medical establishment, are removing all of our prime characteristics which spur human growth and achievement. Just a few thoughts on this below regarding the major ones we hear the most about.
ADHD – What extreme genius artist or inventor would NOT be diagnosed with this nowadays? How about the obsessive great physicist/scientist who could focus on a task for weeks, then lose himself into chaos afterwards? The frentic composers of baroque and classical music? The iconic mind expanding artists throughout the ages?
“Depression” – There is real chemical depression, I’ve heard (don’t know that for certain, but I’ll go along with it), and then there’s “I’m a bit sad that my dog died” or “Man, that chick turned me down, I was evicted from my apartment and they just cancelled re-runs of Gilligan’s Island! Life sucks!”. Both are heavily medicated. But sadness, even depression of the non-permanent chemical sort, create growth of a human being in learning to deal with adversity. It also spurs men on to create ways to avoid those situations again, which leads to new techniques or inventions. In others it puts them in a state from where they draw their most artistic inspiration. Would Edgar Allen Poe’s works been anything except trivial if he’d been “treated” by modern psychiatry? I think not.
Obsessive Compulsive Personality – Note, this is not the same as obsessive compulsive disorder, which is the “wash my hand fifty times” real disease, but rather, the “Personality” type who has a set pattern of how to shape his environment. In other words, strict attention to detail. Almost every great General in history was “afflicted” by this personality type and as a result managed to win battles and wars against all odds. It’s also a major trait of most highly successful businessmen.
It seems like a lot of things that have made some of the greatest men in history, are being “treated” and “cured” now. No wonder we remain in a state of stunted adolescence and are easily pliable these days.
What is particularly disturbing is medicating/drugging children. In particular labelling and drugging little boys for being, little boys. As stated in the article the need to talk to the child and study the environment is essential. However, lazy parents, absentee parents, single mothers who are so dysfuctional they can barely take care of themselves, various daddy figures who are incarcerated and/or addicted lead to a toxic stew of chaos which is difficult for anyone, let alone a child to handle.
Bad parenting combined with convenient diagnosis and ensuing medication keeps our jails full.
Absolutely agree.
Why dont you go do a little fucking research you ass
Please enlighten me with your sources.
“Boys are three times more likely than girls to be prescribed ADHD medication”. Dr. Beneditto Vitiello, Psychiatrist and Researcher on ADHD.
Look this guy up you asshole and please get back to me!
I am not talking about the drugs. I am talking about how you said ‘druging boys for being boy’ and the ‘lazy/ bad parenting’. They are not drugging boys for being boys, in fact studies show that people with ADHD that dont receive medication end up in jail more. And second when you said that lazy parents cause ADHD is just plain wrong. The reason that boys are prescribed more is that boys often show more intense symptoms then girls, also girls often have ADHD-PI (primarily inattentive) which is often harder to recognize then then the hyperactive, implusive, or combined subtype.
Sources please.
help4adhd.org
10 myrhs and facts about Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (pdf)
CHADD.org
The ADHD book: Answers to parents’ most pressing questions
Would you like them in MLA format or is that good enough.
“ADHD – What extreme genius artist or inventor would NOT be diagnosed with this nowadays? How about the obsessive great physicist/scientist who could focus on a task for weeks, then lose himself into chaos afterwards? The frentic composers of baroque and classical music? The iconic mind expanding artists throughout the ages?”
Artists are perfect examples of how they made ADHD work for them, to normal folk its called “multitasking”
snowflake fucktards like this “slow reader” is a cash cow that keeps the mental health industry flourishing. Christ on a bike how did she get into Oxford? honestly I think she sullied Oxford’s rep just a wee bit.
Don’t harsh on Oxford too much. There is a growing trend of over inflating student’s “grades” and “achievements” in order to make them look good for colleges. This is becoming a pretty serious problem.
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/06/03/best-of-class-in-dublin-222-grads-tie.html
everybody gets atrophy!!
You have to remember….it’s all about getting those people into college (more money) by any means necessary. They’ve become more of a business, today, and less of a learning institution.
In the end, here is your shiny new diploma and thanks for the cash.
and don’t forget the attend the graduation party where you can buy photographs of yourself and your loved ones with a shiny piece of paper. just like in tehveh.
And Ritalin is probably flushing 99% of all future geniusus down the toilet. Drugging them into a stupor of outwards conformity… while deadening that part of their brain that makes them truly unique.
A generation of boys, getting pharma’d into oblivion by a generation of women.
And the women are too fucking stupid to realize that without men leading the charge to create newer, better technology, or even being motivated to learn how to repair it, all of their fun cool shiny iStuff goes away and they have to return to the creek side to warsh clothes with rocks (I know I spelled wash wrong).
Boys with ADHD/ASD and IQ’s of 160 getting drugged back to the average.
Its the end of evolution.
Damn right.
I usually repair most things.
I re-upholstered my chair, put linux on an old ex-XP computer, fixed my sofa, plastered my own walls, fixed my tap with araldite, fixed my nokia with a cottonbud and alcohol.
There are a million youtube videos on how to fix anything, and save yourself a lot of money, as well as generating a sense of self reliance. But despite this, I don’t know a single woman who does any of this.
They just throw whatever it is in the bin, and roll out to buy the newest version of whatever they want.
While at the same time, whining about how its so hard to save money, and can’t find a good man to support them.
Your ignorance has literally left me speechless. Here is a summer project for you: research what you have a problem with (like your problem with ADHD) before you make harsh judgments about it.
Without men women wouldn’t have all the problems they do now. I am not sure how that first sentence comes across but I am saying women have problems caused by men because most men dont respect women. Ps this is my opinion based on my observations not a concrete fact.
It’s also ruined pop music. Generations of doped-up boys prefer dragging hip hop beats and cannot understand subtlety. Had teens been on Ritalin in the ’60s we’d never have had soul music; had teens been on Ritalin in the ’70s, punk never would have happened.
i wonder when the DSM will introduce a masculinity disorder. hallmarks: obsession with self-improvement and irrational rambling about gender differences.
“It appears that the West, under the “loving, guiding hand” of psychiatry
and psychology and the medical establishment, are removing all of our
prime characteristics which spur human growth and achievement.”
It’s all due to the west praying at the alter of ATM (money). We saw this coming back in the 80s, Ghost, with so many doctors handing out pills (first) versus finding an actual cure to the problem. Fast forward 30 years and it’s gotten even worse. Pharmaceutical companies don’t want t cure…they want a pill to handle the problem (more money). The more problems they can find “wrong” with people, then the more pills can be dispensed to the public.
Drug the public, dumb them down, keep them working….it is working towards 1984.
More like Brave New World (Aldous Huxley). While 1984’s dystopia is formed using fear and surveillance, BNW uses drugs and the elevation of pleasure as the be-all. Together they reflect the tools of the corrupt in our politicians – corrupt lefties are BNW, corrupt righties are 1984.
The dangers are a bit different from your analysis, I think. The stimulants used for “ADHD” re actually safer and less likely to cause permanent damage than many other psychiatric drugs such as antipsychotics and bipolar meds (which are ridiculously over-prescribed). The main damage to potential geniuses is from the classroom environment itself.
Clinical depression is not sadness, it is more like despair, with all emotions flattened. We know how to create depression — put an organism in a situation where its struggles are futile and it cannot escape. In other words, teach helplessness. In rats this is done by making them swim until they give up. Anti-depressant drugs are judged by how long it takes for the rats to give up. The classroom environment is effectively designed to produce the same result as the rats’ pool.
Thank you for doing half of your research before making any judgments. I know that sentence above sounds very sarcastic but I am genuinely being sincere.
Itd be interesting to ever find out exactly how much estrogn has leeched into our water supplies.
I hope your gravestone is written in comic sans
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Maybe omit a line or two.
Very mature
I came upon this video randomly but watched it in its entirety. It’s a former MP speaking at Oxford. Her speech was titled “We are not all feminists.”
These are the people that need to be running these elite and non-elite universities.
Apparently this video was part of a larger debate held that same day. In attendance was none other than Laurie Penny who spoke against Edwina Currie. From The Oxford Student:
The final speaker, blogger, journalist, author and New Statesman columnist Laurie Penny, set out to dispel “a lot of myths” about feminism she had heard over the course of the debate. She rejected the previous speakers’ emphasis on getting women into the boardrooms, declaring that she “didn’t give a damn about boardrooms” and would be perfectly happy to get “both men and women out of the boardrooms” and “burn the boardrooms”. She dismissed Edwina Curry’s account of bra-burning feminists, prompting her fellow opposition speaker to stand up and affirm that she had seen it take place in the Union Chamber itself. Laurie Penny admitted that when she heard people applauding at the “reactionary, disgusting sentiments” of Edwina Curry, she felt sick and had to leave the chamber. She described violence and sexual assault on the streets of Cairo, the Catholic Church’s crackdown on a woman’s right to choose in Ireland, and her own experience of discrimination and rape in Oxford. But even as she warned of a “global backlash against women’s rights”, she echoed Tessa Jowell’s call to “act in a hopeful manner”. She admitted that “maybe we’re not all feminists now”, but was so “deeply depressed” by the speech of Edwina Curry that she advised the audience to vote against her side of the debate.
Look at the stark contract is poise and debating skills between Edwina Currie and Laurie Penny.
Differing opinions made her so sick that she had to “leave the chamber.” She was “deeply depressed” by the speech of Edwina Curry and labled the people who applauded her as “reactionary” and having “disgusting sentiments.”
An insolent little SJW if there ever was one.
Apparently, she is now living in the US where she is orchestrating and participating in the riots that have been plaguing many cities. The State Department needs to revoke her visa ASAP.
What a nasty article! The percentage of intolerant men in the manosphere have finally been outed in this piece and in the comments section.
There was a time in Germany when people were unforgiving of the slightest disability. The unfortunate people were gassed in the back of vans. Later they were sent to concentration camps simply for being DISABLED.
At the same time there was an American president who was confined to a wheelchair. He led the whole Western World against the Nazis and defeated them. Testament to what could be done by a person who escaped the back of a van. Or who wanted a little bit of help to sit their Oxford exams.
I resent the way that some people in the Manosphere are feeding off their hatred of Feminists and SWJ’s in order to come out against disability, just because of the disabled person being a woman who decided to stick up for herself. There is no place for you in the Manosphere of which I am a part and your sort will be opposed and ultimately thrown out.
I won’t be coming back to this comments section to see what is written. I won’t be answering posts aimed at me by either the commentators or the author. I won’t engage with you and I won’t know what is written. You can say what you like, I won’t know about it. I’ll leave you with just one message:
Your time in the Manosphere is over.
Wrong. If you can’t stand the heat, transfer to another university. Kudos to Oxford for standing up to this entitled nonsense. Millenials and their entitlement is OVER. I’m sure you haven’t heard the last of Ms. Spector because there is a Government job or non-profit that she will fit into.
“At the same time there was an American president who was confined to a
wheelchair. He led the whole Western World against the Nazis and
defeated them. Testament to what could be done by a person who escaped
the back of a van. Or who wanted a little bit of help to sit their
Oxford exams.”
Russia led by Stalin won WWII. El Presidente-for-life Roosevelt only got involved because Germany stupidly declared war on the USA thinking the USA would be too tied up with Japan. Any President could have been in office during WWII and would have had the same outcome: Germany declares war on the USA and the USA swoops in at the last minute to claim the vast majority of the credit for a war they did almost nothing to win.
Oh come now.
“Oh come now.”
You come on. Roosevelt is one of the major scoundrels of American history along with Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and LBJ.
I wasn’t commenting on Roosevelt, I despise the man, and agree with the other men you list being despicable as well.
Don’t forget Kennedy and Obama
I think you give the Soviets too much credit. The Germans could not fully commit to the fight in places like Stalingrad and Kursk because the Americans had intervened in North Africa and invaded Italy, which drew German resources away from the Eastern Front. Let’s not think the Soviets won it alone just because they were willing to suffer horrendous losses.
Just said something similar. Great minds.
Discounting American, or even other Allied players, due (usually) to high casualties on Russia’s side always struck me as odd. And as you allude to, it also shows a serious case of tunnel vision.
He’s right, the US only started making gains in western Europe after the Russian counterattack in Eastern Europe. Most of the Nazi war operations were focused on conquering Russia…Hitler underestimated Russia’s human resources and military tenacity.
After conquering Germany, the Soviets were more than capable of ‘liberating’ Western Europe without the help of the US/Brit forces.
This debate always makes me shake my head.
The actual Axis advance stopped in 1942 with the Nazi defeat in North Africa as well as the defeat in Stalingrad. The Nazis also concentrated a lot of firepower, especially air power, over Britain until the RAF ripped them to shreds leaving them a shell of their former self thereafter. Occupying France didn’t occur with three dudes and a bottle of Schnapps, and North Africa was of colonial and strategic interest to them, they lost a huge amount of armor down there to Allied armor.
Additionally Russia would have sunk in a week without the massive material support of the Allies, especially the Americans. The Germans were devastating their industrial base, intentionally. Before the halt of their advance they nearly got to one of the two main production points of the Mosin Nagant 91/30 rifle, which was the mainstay of the Red Army.
No, Russia couldn’t have gone it alone. The could have come to a stalemate, perhaps likely, but that would have been about it, lacking the rest of the Allies. And don’t get me wrong, that would have been an achievement. Had cooler heads prevailed in the German General Staff, they would have planned around the weather, leaving Russia sealed to a very sad fate.
Don’t forget the massive bombing of Germany which greatly reduced their ability to produce the weapons of war and which diverted the Luftwaffe from dominating Russian skies. Air power in a mostly flat battle field is critical; when the Nazis had it they won, when the Russians had it they won.
Yes, exactly. The Brits and Americans took it to them day and night through non-stop bombing and wiped out a lot of their industrial capacity, such that by 1944 most manufacturing had become “cottage industry” in the Fatherland.
The “Russian Superman” theory always strikes me as wonderfully myopic. It’s like the kid who brags about beating up the school yard bully, forgetting it was his three friends holding the bully to the ground while the kid applied the licks.
If cooler heads had prevailed in the general staff Barbarossa would not have happened. the German military was opposed to invading Russia as they knew they did not have enough forces to match the Soviet strategic depth. Their blitzkrieg could not be made to work over the huge distances. This is still a problem. Blitzkrieg is good for about 300 miles then you start to outrun your supplies. The whole strength of blitzkrieg is that you disrupt the enemies rear and cause massive confusion by the quickness of your strike. Hard to deal quick blows to a rear that is 1,000 miles away in the Urals.
“Russia would have sunk in a week without the massive support of the Allies”
I have to respectfully disagree, Russia had vast resources, what they didn’t have in technological capabilities and strategy, they sure made up for it in human/land resources, self-sacrifice and spirit. Many superior military nations have tried to invade Russia and ALL of them have failed. France(Napoleon Era); Mongols(Gengis Khan era); Germany(Nazi era+ Weimar era); Chrimean Khanate(Ottoman Empire)
Also Russia is notorious for their scorched earth policy so even if the Nazis successfully invaded East Russia, they would not have been able to maintain an occupying force
I disagree. The fact is that either front would likely have failed without the other. Don’t forget, it was the Russians who begged us to open the Western Front as quickly as possible to relieve pressure on them. The British plan was to tinker on the fringes to try to wear down German will. American and Russia understood the necessity of a full scale attack. The Russians didn’t advocate that course because they had everything in hand and didn’t need help. In 1942-43, the issue was still very much in doubt.
I’m with mikediver’s answer, to spare the bandwidth on the site with me posting the same thing, heh.
This is a topic that’s better discussed over a beer in real life than over the interwebs, I think. Good discussion though, enjoyed it.
Excellent parody! Top shelf performance! Absolutely solid shaming techniques!
You sir win the coveted 10/10 Troll Award of the day! Congratulations!
being jewish is a disability? that’s new.
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Missed point of article you have. Negged you shall be.
Phaggot
It was actually the Russians that defeated the Nazis
It was everybody who was playing. The Russians did a *fantastic* job of dying though, I’ll give them that.
Don’t get me wrong, they did a great job. Without American material and financial assistance, as well as the Allies in general keeping the Nazis hopping on the Western front and in Africa, they would have went under in a month. Shit, they almost did anyway. Hells bells, they almost go their arse handed to them by a handful of Finns with bolt action rifles, heh.
To be fair to Russia, Finland had Simo Häyhä, whose genetic legacy carries forward to this day in Chuck Norris and The Most Interesting Man In The World.
“They would have went under in a month”
I don’t think you’ve done extensive research on Operation Barbarossa…Nazi forces weren’t even close to key Soviet military sites and industrial towns…Even if Hitler took Moscow, Stalin just would have moved his Capital further east. The Soviets had an army several times larger than the Germans and their military manufacturing capabilities and the speed in which they manufactured e.g tanks and aircrafts
I know what I’ve studied, thank you.
The Russians were not pussies. But they were not the Supermen you seem to think either. They were a major player, but not *the* major player. One can dicker about the role of France (none) or Italy (little to none), but the major players all made huge contributions. Germany compensated for numbers through technology and fast thinking and intelligent strategies, at least until Hitler went looney and made many very significant strategic blunders. Left to the General Staff, things would have been much worse for the Soviets.
No the Ruskies were not supermen, they just threw huge amounts of men and material at the Germans and the Russian winter was another deciding factor.
The Russian front was a meat grinders for the best the Reich had to offer as it was an ideological war, fought to the destruction of the other. No quarter shown nor received.
The Western front wouldn’t have happened however if the Russians hadn’t shown up.
The Russians did all the dirty work for the Allies. Obliterating the best Nazi soldiers and generals that were sent to the Eastern front, making the Western front a walk in the park the Brits and US
Edit: Its funny how every country that has failed to invade Russia always as if they didn’t know how brutal the Russian winter is.
That, I can agree with.
Russia has always only had two things on their side. First, their ability to go all en masse on an enemy. Numbers beat bullets if you run out of bullets firing at the mob. Second, their winters are legendary. If not for their winters, if Russia had been conceived in a nice temperate zone with normal or mild winters, they would have collapsed in pretty much every major war since the stone age.
Agree on your second paragraph (not your first). Why any sane General or leader doesn’t crack open a history book and come to the conclusion “We should probably wait until Spring to invade” and “We should secure our positions and not advance come November” I just don’t understand.
I’d have to say that all played their part:
However, Hitler demanded that the Wehrmacht had to fight on other
fronts, sometimes three simultaneously, thus stretching its resources
too thin. Hitler’s insistence on withdrawing troops from the
intensifying theater in the East and moving them to the West after D-Day
created tensions between the General Staff of both the OKW and the OKH
as there just was not sufficient material and manpower for a two front
war of such magnitude.
By 1944, even the defense of Germany became impossible.
Operation Barbarossa was the largest with most resources being used but it was the intervention of the allies in the west after D-Day that eased up the battle in the east allowing Soviet forces to regroup to counter. Again, all played their part in winning it.
ADHD might not even be real. It could just be somebody who is easily bored, or high spirited, or prefers working outdoors. OCD is a personality thing that can be managed. Neither are handicapped like a person in a wheel chair. You have ADHD so you need medical cannabis, and reserved handicap parking spot, and unlimited time to take your college exams…? You’re a fraud. Half the female population in america has “borderline personality disorder”. Should that give them some protected status?
Yes, one SJW apologist who buys into the ever broadening definition of “disability” is totally the gatekeeper of the Manosphere. I’ve got a shocker for you. You aren’t in the Manosphere. You never were. You should return to your overlords at Jezebel. They’re probably missing their village idiot right now.
Oxford, or any other university for that matter, is not obligated to water down its courses or provide accommodations to the lazy and weak willed. Even the ones who diagnose themselves with whatever the current disability flavor of the month is. Higher education is SUPPOSED to be tough and challenging. Perhaps if more institutions adopted this approach, we wouldn’t be turning out so many limp wristed weaklings with worthless degrees in useless subjects like Liberal Arts and women’s studies. It’s also a self defeating business model for a highly respected univeristy like Oxford to make acquiring one of their degrees little more than a walk in the park or accomodate every single person who feels they’re too “special” and too “disabled” to do the work the same as everyone else. A degree is worthless if you expended no effort and faced no challenge to acquire it.
Lastly, anyone who goes off on a about how they’re storming off and never returning to see what is written in their absence will always come back to read responses. You may not post your reply under this account, but given that you’re childish enough to do the equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and running off in a tantrum, I’d be willing to bet you’ve already been back to see what’s been said and I wouldn’t put it past you to open a new account to reply from.
No one here gives a fuck about what you think…so it doesn’t matter.
oh, i feel kinda bad for her. it reminds me of when my school didn’t acknowledge my not-as-good-in-history-as-other-kids syndrome. when that happened, i really lost something. was it faith in humanity? i don’t know, but i don’t want anyone to have to go through this.
Let me guess, you didn’t go to Oxford and study History.
you know, i didn’t. but the really sad thing is that oxford university didn’t even offer me a scholarship.
Those bastards!
Well, there is always community college (for you slow readers). I’m kidding…but the truth is, it’s a start for many people versus bitching.
Pretty funny, though, Tom.
Another victim:
She was, (please try to suppress your anger and hatred for what this woman went through) complimented.
oh my fucking god, this is ridiculous.
it’s not a power play. it’s a power demonstration. stupid bitch.
anybody else get the feeling that nowadays the moral quality of an action is defined by how it makes somebody else feel? in a way, you have to have precognition to be a good person.
compliment somebody who is too insecure to accept it at that moment: you are a monster.
and that’s what we are getting at here….her insecurity. Most normal people would just laugh it off (btw, it’s Snoop Dogg) so really laugh it off.
yeah, well, she can’t laugh it off anymore because she inked it into her skin. but i can laugh her off. mwahaha.
If she’s offended being called thick, get on a treadmill and change that poor image you have of yourself. It’s that simple.
“You’ve been triggered.”
The word “trigger” triggers me.
And you know what? You went to bed indignant and angry. Snoop Dogg slept like a baby.
towards the end, even the interviewer started to be bored by her.
Of course, this happened in Canada. Most (not all) women in Canada are like this.
The proper response is more FHRITP vids.
tattoos… nuff said.
Put a bag over your head honey! What’s with the tattoo – nuff said.
The Snoop had the powerplay with his large black appendage tapping off her chin……. tattooed skank…..Bubbles rules!!!!
“What was I going to do? What was I going to do? Hit him? Tell him ‘Mr. Snoop Dogg this interview is over?’ What was I going to do?”
You were going to stay silent, wait, and go to the press to play a victim, that is what you were going to do. He’s just such a tall male celebrity! What could I do in the moment?! Funny how such a tough female with her trendy sleeve can’t even stand up for what she believes in, she’s gotta sleep on it and run to the nearest mountain top or microphone to talk about her injustices.
Geez, he just should have complimented her on that awesome edgy tattoo!
It was degrading to her because Snoop is too ghetto (black). If it was coming from a white abercrombie and fitch model she would have got tingles and gone home and masturbated.
More like a white artsy dyke
The classic narrative, “I’m a feminist, SAVE ME!!!” I am a strong, independent womyn, but I was intimated because he was (wait for it) tall.
Makes me want to vomit.
Height rape!
Awwwwwww, poor girl.
Poor lamb….men wanting you sexually??!! The horror..
Tatted up dumpy girl wants to cry. What else is new? In fact, had he said something about her being too “thick” then it would have been fat shaming.
But if he would have “complimented” her on her tattoo that would have been accepted as a compliment. You can’t explain the hamster, sometimes…it just spins with these crazy women.
You can tell this woman has self esteem issues (the tat really gives it away). He didn’t say “hey fatty, I love fat women”, either. He was actually complimenting her but she was too stupid to realize it.
I have ADHD – Inattentive Type, and graduated from an elite university without special accommodations… in fact, without treatment of any kind. Much more recently, I’ve discovered I can work much better with stimulant medication, but I would not have wanted it as a child.
I don’t know whether it’s a disease or not; that question is too ontological for my purposes. I know I was called “lazy” by my parents and some teachers, and that didn’t help me at all. I try to do whatever it takes to aid me in coping with a demanding world, but it never would have occurred to me to make demands of the world to cope with me. Maybe it’s because I am male, or that I grew up in Gen X. I don’t know. I’d rather be a special slab of granite than a special snowflake.
You basically took the cards you were dealt with and played your hand well. No, actually to the best of your abilities and beat the odds that were stacked against you. You did not ask the world to change to accommodate you. You changed to fit into the world you live in.
Kudos to you.
For GenX and prior generations, we couldn’t demand the world change to suit us. That would have lead, at a minimum, to a visit out behind the barn to receive some crucial lessons at the hand of your brother, father or uncle for being such a pussy.
GenY/Millenials on the other hand…
Well, at least they’re making themselves obvious targets. Come the zombie apocalypse I’m aiming for anybody wearing a 19th century beard, or is wearing fifty tatts and gauges in his/her ears.
The ones with smurf colored hair I’m singling out for special attention.
I got a slap in the head and a kick in the ass. Worked like a charm. Also, coming from a large family, you had to take a number and get in line to lodge a complaint.
You also received crucial lessons from your peers behind the barns. You were ridiculed and shamed for even thinking that way.
Exactly. Show an ounce of weakness and you could practically see the bullies penciling you into their appointment books.
These fucking Millenials are in for a world of hurt if the electricity skips out for a few weeks.
I got my slaps on the ass at home, and the kicks in the head at school.
But you take the hits, get up, and keep working for your dreams.., and you don’t go running to mummy for another freebase of Ritalin.
Of particular interest is that previous generations have created this environment that has ruined a chunk of gen y. You sit there and trash on my generation, conveniently forgetting who started this social justice crap, who furthered fascist socialist economic policies that further hurt the youth, who was in charge of the education system, who rammed the idea of “everyone’s a winner” into the heads of children.
Mommy is freebasing.
All this social justice crap, and the “everybody’s a winner” hand-holding is all Baby Boomer stuff — the generation before mine. They got it from the liberal intelligensia that came before them, though… The Boomers were the first generation that was receptive, en masse, to that nonsense, even though they didn’t grow up that way.
That said, I think a lot of the Boomer men — those not indoctrinated by over-education into the cult of postmodern pseudo-marxism — were raised the old-fashioned way, and believe in the work ethic of previous generations… though, economically speaking, they had it easier than any generation that came before, or after. They could buy a house, raise a family, and have a secure retirement with only a high school diploma, whereas my MBA, and six years of higher education, is worthy only as a bird cage liner. I have to make my own way, and become my own employer.
The 9-5 union job spending 40 hours on an assembly line of some sort to do a job that should only take 15 so that they get necessary hours is outdated and no longer applicable, and the puritan work ethic has always been stupid. I can work 4 days a month and have enough to get by and have some fun too. I have zero work ethic, the exact thing all of these old fags opine about being the problem. I find it amusing when authors like this one bitch about millenials, when it was the older generations that embraced and pushed mediocrity on their young.
Oh, so I started this crap then, did I skippy? Tell me what I did to start it? Because as far as I can tell, I’ve always been against it, long before most people even understood that “it” was coming down the pike. Shit, home fries, I was out marching and protesting the income tax back in the 1980’s and was writing papers about eliminating the entire welfare system before In Living Color aired for the first time on Fox. How much more anti-social justice can a dude be? heh
The people who created the social justice crap were initially the Christians from Jesus forward, and the socialists adopted it in the 1800’s as their prime raison d’etre, and it morphed from there over time from an individual invocation to a collectivist theory.
You are right on “everyone’s a winner”, but I didn’t participate in that and never approved of it.
So yeah, I think I have the right and ability to criticize y’all, at least the ones that adhere to the stereotype. If you don’t, then hey, no skin off your nose, you’re good to go.
I have zero work ethic, the exact thing all of these old fags opine about being the problem.
It’s based on context. If you’re doing shit without public contact for 4 days a month and make it, good for you, I certainly won’t get on you about it. But if you’re working in contact with the public and, like a lot of Millenials now, act arrogant and snarky for being asked things like “Can I get some silverware please” then I’m afraid the “old fags” are right.
I also find your “I’m a victim” thing typical as well.
“Sure, I’m an adult and recognize that mediocrity is bad, but it’s your fault that I’m mediocre!” If you know it’s bad, then you either adapt and stop being mediocre, or you accept your impotence and get on with life. Blaming others is for victims, and women.
Ahhh, so you and the author can collectivize an entire generation, but dislike when it’s done back to you? Perhaps you should’ve fought back harder? Oh but I suppose holding a sign out protesting gives you a free pass.
Hah, hence why the older generations embraced the white picket fence, middle class, mr. and mrs. Jones ideal, right? Because that’s not the definition of mediocrity at all.
Hell, all of the older generations’ ideals have been naught but mediocrity. The entirety of the American puritan work ethic was aimed towards accomplishing a nice, safe, happy mediocrity after being a meek, pathetic, spineless serf until retirement.
So basically you’re just looking to be snarky and pick a fight? Amiright?
I make exceptions for Millenials who don’t fit the mold, and have said so on many threads. If you feel that slighted, then I suspect that you do fit many of the characteristics we’re talking about. If you didn’t you’d not take it so personally. If you don’t fit those stereotypes, then what’s crawled up your butt that you feel a need to defend people who are *not* like you and who would hold you in contempt?
If you can explain to me how one man can “fight back harder” to the extent that it changes a Leviathan, I’m all ears. As a matter of fact however, I did help to get legislation passed at the state level restoring quite a bit of liberty, through direct in person action. I did what I could, I’m doing what I can now. The most I can do is urge others to join in, life isn’t solved in five minutes with an App off of the Apple Store. And hey, you’re just as free to fight back now too. So get to it.
Beats living in your car or in an apartment with five other slackers bitching about “McMansions” and texting about joining another pointless socialist finance Occupy do-dad.
You lack a context of history as well. If you think what we have now is mediocrity in a material and “safer world” sense, I invite you to climb into a Wayback machine and go interview Edward I of England and ask him if he’d trade his life then for a chance to come forward now and live in our material “mediocrity”. He’d club you with the pommel of his sword in his haste to get on board the Wayback Machine.
You’re starting to sound like you’re all hat and no cattle, kid. If anger and a victim complex is all you have, you basically do fit the mold that most criticize. Stop blaming others for how things are now and make your own way in life. I am trying to give you a dignified out here, stifle the snarky anger and accept it. We’re on the same team man, you’re jousting with friends for no good reason.
Calling older generations out on their bullshit and hypocrisy isn’t playing a victim card at all. The little I’ve said about my own situation I think would be interpreted as a positive statement, not an “oh woe is me, blah blah” phrase.
Speaking of occupy, perhaps it was just here that this was prevalent, but it seemed it was more gen x and boomers (aged hippies) than anything. Oh but of course, millenials have to be all behind the occupy crap, because that fits your confirmation bias.
I don’t accept collective blame or status for anything, but when someone throws around collective generalizations, I’ll throw them back. Why should I keep quiet when hypocritical boomers constantly shoot their mouths off about millenials, which of course is casting aspersions on myself and my friends in the same manner a feminist or SJW does against groups they don’t like.
You’re on the back burner flinging shit at those in the trenches.
Yeah, dude, I said that if you’re making it and are happy then good for you, and that the criticism is not directed at you. Did you, you know, bother to read my post first?
So…I make exceptions for Millenials who don’t fit the mold. Meaning, it’s not a collective generalization, I take individuals into account. If you’re going to tell me however that the Hipster thing isn’t *rampant* in your gen, then you expect me to believe you over my own lyin’ eyes. Heh
I’m not a boomer, btw.
Having seen the Occutard movement, they were mostly younger, though it is true that there were some aging boomer hippies and the occasional GenX’er, no doubt. If you want to find the core of the Boomer/GenX protest movements, they were more likely to be spotted in the 2008-2010 Tea Party than anywhere else though. Just my personal observation of course.
And “trenches”, lol, ok man, if you say so.
Again, not so sure why you’re so angry. If you don’t fit the mold, then you’re defending those who do. Seems illogical.
I’m not angry, I’m pointing out that the “mold” you perceive is wrong. That you’re taking maybe 5%, 10% max of an entire age demographic and stating that’s the majority. And I live in one of the acclaimed “hipster capitals.” Of course, you probably see slim fit jeans, tattoos, and a certain hair cut then scream hipster, regardless of anything else. And even the styles you would group under “hipster” are in a minority.
If you feel that the perceived mold of millennials is wrong, then I urge you to lead your generation to change that stereotype. Prove us wrong. When you see someone from your demographic behaving in that mold, call them out on it and tell them what they are doing is making your generation look bad.
That is what is sorely missed, today….discipline. Not abuse…just discipline. It’s the reason why so many kids are out of hand, today….not enough of it.
More discipline! Right! Exactly! All ails would be solved by yet even more authority worship! Never mind that the young are being disciplined to conform to PC nonsense! They just need a good smackin and to be told what to do! Worship at the alter of authoritah!
I think you should have a work ethic…it keeps you balanced. You can’t have too much fun and you can’t work too much. One keeps the other in check.
I’ve been in the work force for 30 years, now. When I started (first job at McDonald’s) I was paid $3.35 an hour. I didn’t bitch about the type of work, I didn’t bitch about the pay…I worked and I received that pay from that particular job.
I’ve been down a long path and I’ve learned a lot (from every job and career).
What I’m seeing and hearing, today, is many young people wanting to go from mommy and daddy’s nice big house and nice cars to their own nice things. They don’t want to do the heavy lifting or low paying jobs to get there….they think they are too fucking special. Not all of them (because there are exceptions) but that is the overall mood of your generation. And yes, you’ve been fucked over along the way (cry me a river…we all have at some point).
How you handle it (grow up) and deal with it will set you apart from the pack. I’m online at ROK, often, to help in any way that I can (my experiences, my wisdom). Hit me up whenever you need advice and I’ll see what I can do.
It’s why many of us are here.
No, they need discipline, period….they have none. Discipline comes in many forms…self discipline being the highest form (because it’s just you).
Let me know when you are ready to lean. This back and forth will get you nowhere.
I don’t “feel.” I know that the generalization is a hyper exaggeration, and is almost always accompanied by the value structure of a 9-5 debt slave.
Nearly every millenial who pines away for “the old times” is just seeking approval from their elders. Or, all the contact they have with people is on the internet. The real world is vastly different and more millennials question authority, the state, and the narratives they’ve been told than any of the oldfags who sit there and bitch about the youth, and blame the youth for the problems the oldfags created.
Hell, you can stick with iron sights on targets that big.
Alright. In the old times, it was considered abnormal, no, actually insane to want to change your sex from man to woman like Bruce Jenner. Homosexuality was frowned upon with disgust. Millennials who pine away for the old times are seeking approval from their elders, huh?
You think those old ways are so last generation?
No. Everyone gets a ribbon and gets a diploma whether they pass or not.
This back and forth bickering only shows the kid is not willing to stop and see himself from another person’s perspective. Solipsism. Most people would just give up telling him and let life be the master teacher/disciplinarian.
It’s not about what you wear but how you think and no one is entirely immune to what they see in the media and in their environment.And in these days of mass media it doesn’t even matter where you live very much.
First it is not the old times. Second her name is Caitlyn.
Personal responsibility. Pure and simple.
Its a rare commodity amongst millenials. Even rarer in the female half of the population.
If you were at school nowadays, you would be drugged to the eyeballs on Ritalin, Straterra and Fluoxatine. Weekly meetings with your psychobabbler to discuss your “coping strategies”, and probably on some government healthcare list as ‘disabled’, and thus barred from numerous potential career paths.
You should have been a Boomer. For most people amphetamines will keep you awake and able to concentrate better and students would take them if they really had to study before an exam but taking them regularly is always detrimental.Who knows. These drugs were around long before ADD was in the DSM and perhaps the drug co. figured out they could get the psychiatrists to develop a new use for them because the market for their use had died out as a result of new drug laws because people were having bad mental side effects from taking them.
I just looked at Wiki, something I never do, and the article on Ritalin, amphetamine, must have been written by a shill for the drug industry because many of the indications for use of the drugs and safe extended use were the very things that got them put on the controlled substance list due to their danger lol I have to laugh at one use where they claim it reduces violence in aggressive people because in the 60’s there was a saying ‘speed kills’ and it meant that people taking it could become violent.And btw, they also use methamphetamine(that stuff from Breaking Bad) for ADHD which is like dextroamphetamine and ritalin so I have to wonder how safe any of these drugs are simply because a doctor wrote a prescription for them and you didn’t buy them from Heisenberg.
Hah, I love Breaking Bad! But yeah, I was born in the wrong generation: born too early for childhood ADHD diagnosis (especially since I was “inattentive type” and didn’t have the type of behavioral problems that give teachers nightmares), and born too late to have uncontrolled access to chemicals that might have therapeutic uses without having to jump through a hundred hoops and please a dozen different masters every time I want a script filled…
I know some in the so-called Silent Generation — those who came of age after WWII and before 1964; the group that produced the Beatniks — used dexedrine in copious amounts, just because I read “On the Road” a couple times. Moriarty (Cassady) used speed pills all the time, fueling his cross-country, up-all-night treks.
All I know is amphetamines cure my ADD and my narcolepsy symptoms. (I have a severe sleeping disordered, too.) Unfortunately, due to the rampant abuse of stimulants, I can no longer get the medicine that made my life a hell of a lot better when I had it. It’s become so controlled that many who need it can’t get it.
You asked if it was a disease or not. It is a disorder. I hope my information helped at all. If you have any more questions please ask.
This story really made my day!
Go on the Daily Mail and read the article about this special defective. In particular some of the Brit comments are razor sharp. One follows along the line of, …apply for a job and tell your prospective employer you will need 25% or more extra time to do all work.
Is ADHD even real? I think its nonsense used to give rowdy boys drugs.
Not rowdy boys. Normal boys. The abnormal soft quiet boys are not “normal”, never have been. Being energetic, physical and adventurous has *always* defined normal boyhood.
They made up a fake disease as an excuse to drug innocent boys, which robs them of their masculine energy. It’s quite tragic really…
The trick to that is, they can’t do it without you, the parent’s, consent.
Well, see this is where I think the real problem is. Over the last few generations there has been a documented rise in narcissism. So, little Johnny is special (because I, the parent am special), there is no way he’s a normal child, he’s either a genius or if there is a problem it must be pathologized, and it must be a medical condition so that little Johnny can be special again. There is no way I, the special of most special parents has a normal child, or heaven forbid a dumb child , no it therefore must be a medial problem, because I am special you see. Me! Meeeeeee!
It’s interesting. When I was studying for my medical doctorate I always said, “If it wasn’t for the parents and the kids; pediatrics would be a great field.”
They make that shit drug for the sons of single mothers.
Autism. Little Johnny is not retarded he’s autistic.
Autism was formerly just one of the signs a doctor would look for in diagnosing mental retardation(a generic term covering everything from Down’s syndrome to organic brain damage etc)
Just because you rarely hear of autistics or even schizophrenics who may be outstanding in one area doesn’t mean they are not retarded.They generally have a mild form of the disease and that one area of the brain may be functioning eg. math, music are common etc but overall they are retarded.
In the semi-fictional film, Rainman,he could remember all sorts of useless trivia he was obsessed with but couldn’t buy his own underwear or understand how much anything cost.But in average cases of ‘autism’ (retardation) or schizophrenia the patient is pretty useless.
There’s also a range of what falls into the normal category and even if ADD exists it may only effect 1 in 1000 not 10% of boys taking amphetamines.A lot of normal boys who don’t meet the criteria are pushed into the category just to make the teachers or parents life easier with a quieter kid.
You should go into geriatric medicine at least you’ll see real diseases :o)
I take Adderall for hang overs!
Seinfeld say millennials have become so PC that he’s refusing to perform at colleges.
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/08/jerry-seinfeld-politically-correct-college-campuses
They would get so offended by his not so PC humor that the SJW’s would start marching around on campus carrying their chairs that they sat in when they were “offended”.
Bravo Oxford. This would not occur in an American University. This is the good ‘ol “stiff upper lip” attitude of Brits that once ruled the world.
all diagnoses are ‘concocted’ to the extent they are social constructed around symptomology, but without wanting to get deeply into the issue I’d say you’re on surer ground with ADHD than OCD
She doesn’t have a case. There is a high level of burn out at the elite univerisities precisely because they are high-pressure environments
I find it really hard to be compassionate for people who use mental disorders as a crutch. I live with a guy who has OCD who never brings it up unless it can directly benefit to him. I remember overhearing him talking on the phone about some fuck up at work, and he blamed it on his “disability”. But other than that he makes great money and is very ambitious – Is he truly “disabled”? Was he just covering up a mistake due to incompetence?
When he’s stressed, though, his OCD comes out in spectacular ways. Then it’s all ME ME ME ME ME, and he expects myself and others to appease his nitpickiness in order for him to calm down. The main factor in it appearing is stress, so therefore by eliminating stress he doesn’t have to worry about it. Yet like a typical blue piller he has to make his life more complicated than it is. Bad day at work? You can bet he’ll spend the rest of the night like Lady MacBeth finding spots/dirt that no one else can see.
So which is it – Is he a go-getter who’s successful and ambitious with a lot of earning potential? Or a mentally crippled nutjob who can’t complete in the workplace due to a disability? As far as I’m concerned, if a disability of any kind prevents you from keeping up with a “normal” person then you’re not fit to be there in the first place, medical condition or not. You wouldn’t allow a paraplegic to compete with Usain Bolt, so why let someone who can’t concentrate or has to get a mop and bucket to clean at the first sign of stress play with the big boys?
when you play the sick role, in whatever capacity, t reinforces the sickness. People become addicted to what it has to offer, and even the objectively sick will exploit their situation
This. OCD is about control more than anything else. When this guy is stressed, AKA losing control of the situations around him, he therefore exerts control on his environment or those around him, regardless of whether or not they’re the source of his anger. It gives him power and a way to unleash his anger. And since he’s obviously not able to self-soothe then he relies on others to reassure him that everything will be alright. Meanwhile, mentally healthy people might let go of stress by relaxing or jerking off or smoking a joint or hitting the gym.
You are not allowed to smoke a joint you criminal. Here are your prescription meds.
Miss Snowflake, if you’re not able to perform at the same level as other students, then you don’t deserve the same grades as those students. This includes any mental “conditions” that aren’t “your fault,” which were handed down to you from your parents. The purpose of grades/marks is to separate the wheat from the chaff. If you’re the chaff, then your options are to adapt or take whatever you get. You don’t deserve the same grades if you can’t perform on the same level. You’re asking for personal grade inflation. Get over yourself.
Dear Future Employer: Can I have more time to finish my work because I am a slow reader?
We really need to bring back that short bus. It seems there are plenty of people who need a ride to school.
Too many of them today to fit in the tart kart. Need an Amtrak train instead.
I dated a girl at Cambridge a long time ago and spent a lot of time there. I have family who went to both Oxford and Cambridge and there is no place there for people who are not committed to putting the hard work in. It seems she’s just another person (There are plenty of males this applies to as well) who was just not prepared to put that work in. There are people across the planet who would kill to attend an elite British university and there is no place for a lazy pleb like the one this article is focused on in an institution such as Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, UCL, LSE, etc.
ADHD is in my opinion an excuse for shitty behavior and poor parenting. I don’t think its any coincidence that a lot of my friends who were prescribed Methylphenidate as children ended up having severe substance abuse problems, mainly with stimulants.
Good for them, I wish more had principles that they held with conviction.
Back in my day we didn’t have ADD or ADHD. You were either smart or stupid.
Pass or fail. Survival of the fittest.
Are you from the creatatious period. ADHD has been documented from the early 19th century (the dates that start with 18…)
Elite universities need to weed out these defectives. This is what community college campuses are for
Man, I never thought of the angle that Sulkowicz would be using the mattress and whole invented drama to get professors to pass her just to get rid of her. Or to intimidated to fail her. But this Spector chick obviously was just flunking out and chose to blame the school. But the Chaplain’s comments were priceless and to the point.
About ADHD, yeah, people suffer from it, but more and more research is showing it’s a learned, habitual condition.
The sad part is they learned it watching reality TV stars do the same thing. All of these no talent “actresses” – starting with Paris Hilton moving to Kim Kardashian and others has paved the way for the attention whoring as a career.
They are all mediocre, no talent but they bring tons of drama. It’s the “model” for many of these girls and young women, today.
Those are their role models? Cinderella, although a fictitious character, is a much better role model. At least she’s feminine and knows how to keep her home clean.
God I am so sick of Kim Kardashian. Will she jet go away after a few years like Paris Hilton did?
that is some serious horse face.
This is the same bullshit as lowering the standards for women to qualify for military or firefighting. In these fields, lives are at stake and if you can’t meet these standards, you don’t belong there.
It’s important for a firefighter NOT to be able to lift equipment and carry a body out of a building. Get with the pogram.
I was diagnosed with ADHD at age 30 (was previously diagnosed with a neurological disorder with often much more visible symptoms when I was 12, not taking medication for either) after 15 years of frequently severe problems fitting into the structures of traditional education systems (always got high grades though) and especially job situations.
Whether or not ADHD is a real condition (I believe it is, and from what I’ve read about the related neuro-science, it seems to support that – though it’s not doubt an extremely overdiagnosed condition) is not all that relevant to me. My personality in certain aspects – influenced or not by one or two neurological disorders – has definitely made it more difficult for me to function in some universally important areas of daily life than seems to be the case for the majority of people.
Of course unlike the girl in this article, I don’t ask for society to reshape itself to accommodate my problems, I do my best to adapt within the options available to me. Which has for the most part worked out well enough, even if attempts at common examples of work life with inflexible structures and deadlines (anything really that doesn’t give me near total freedom to set my own schedule and choose my own tasks) have always been disastrous for me.
after 15 years of frequently severe problems fitting into the structures
of traditional education systems (always got high grades though) and
especially job situations.
Not fitting into propaganda indoctrination centers and corporate feminist hellholes is the sign of a healthy mind, it’s not a disorder.
Hahahahaha. You win the zap, zing award of the day. Kudos GoJ.
” after 15 years of frequently severe problems fitting into the structures of traditional education systems (always got high grades though) and especially job situations.”
You’re just a retard.
Sincerely,
A man who was diagnosed with ADHD at 26, a mediocre performer, with problems ‘fitting in’, and a 2.5 gpa student.
Love the name
Diagnosed at age 30? Guess you found a doctor to finally give you what you wanted.
has definitely made it more difficult for me to function in some universally important areas of daily life
Or perhaps you’re out of your league and would function normally at a lower level.
If the girlfriend or wife complains that you don’t give her the attention she craves, blame it on ADHD.
Subhuman vermin like Spector and Suckowicz are the modern day manifestations of the snake oil salesmen of antiquity. Instead of trying to sell us miracle medical cures or treatments, they instead try to sell us philosophies that purport to fix or treat society’s ills (inequality) but in most cases actually make the gullible society worse.
The end result is a sociological sickness instead of a physiological one, unless of course you include the gag reflect that the average thinker gets whenever he comes across one more example of the bs progs attempt to spoon feed society with.
Just like with those classic conmales, these confemales may end up inhaling their own bs so deeply and thoroughly they will end up believing it themselves. They call this lying to the self, and the left does it so successfully their inner selves should sue their outer selves for emancipation.
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they didn’t invent the bullshit. Sulkowicz is trying to ruin a man’s life, where as Ms spectre is simply trying to blame her own failings on the system. Both are just silly girls, who are acting according to the ideology they’ve been indoctrinated with, and without thought for anybody else. The Balliol hierarchy are fighting back because she turned on them, but there many oxford dons who are implicated in this nonsense. The madness used to be centred in the old ‘polytechnics’ / new universities’ but it has spread to the elites one tooj, and they bear a greater burden of guilt than these defective fembots
They didn’t invent it, but both will seek to make a profit from it. it’s the nature of the conniving (user) type of female.
Thanks for shining light on this flattened snowflake.
I wish I had gotten a BS “ADHD” diagnosis when I was in college from 2000-2004. Free drugs- extra time and ‘help’. Not to mention I could just cry to liberal teachers for a better grade ‘cuz muh disability’.
Sulkowicz, like Eliot Rogers is more proof that Asian/Anglo halflings are fucked up. I’ve never meet a normal one.
Most of the girls go into full whore mode in JR High. While the boys turn into Manga, Drift Car, Karate nerds in an attempt to show the world how ‘Asian’ they are.
J.Tribe =/= Anglo
Beg to differ. My son is cool. All A’s freshman year in college. Can take apart and put together and shoot and hit bulls-eye with various firearms. Fluent in Japanese, English,and Chinese okay too. Ripped like hell. Just saw him do 35 pull-ups. Just got a scholarship to Japan for sophomore year. Alpha as hell.
If he ever decided to kick your ass, it would not be a micro-aggression !!!
I don’t agree with you and suspect that you’re not a qualified scholar. Ha ha
The Cure for ADHD!
Hilarious. Shame it didn’t continue to the parents’ reaction.
If she can not cut it at Oxford, there is always Brown.
Or Columbia University where mattress girl got her degree.
I don’t think ADHD is a made-up disease, but it’s no excuse as to why you fail to achieve success, pass tests, get through school, etc. People with ADHD know that they have to work harder than others to perform certain tasks, but they plan for it and get through them. ADHD doesn’t prevent you from doing anything unless you’re already a whiner and like blaming other people for your problems. And if this girl sought out one of the toughest academic curriculums on the planet and then bitched about her reading skills at the 11th hour, that’s not the school’s fault.
Good point and I totally agree but it was dyslexia not ADHD
it’s an insult to all truly handicapped individuals.
This whole story is so sad. Even Albert Einstein had dyslexia, so it doesn’t have to be an obstacle to academic success. I read about this student’s story in the DailyMail.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3113300/Oxford-college-forced-student-not-allowing-extra-time-prepare-exams-disabilities-called-histrionic.html
Fucking Millennial Snowflakes.
Every special snowflake may be unique, but they all have one thing in common…. they all melt when the heat is on.
ADHD is a bullshit, made-up disorder.
Here are the criteria for ADHD, as recognized by the DSM. Which is the bible for psychobabblers.
A child only has to display 6 of the following indicators, to be diagnosed with ADHD, and put on medications.
I don’t think I have ever met a male child, that didn’t display at least 6 of the following. And as you will notice, these are so broad as to easily overlap with each other. Thus making it easier for a child to meet the 6 requirements. Its just a fucking scam.
Follow the money… right into the pockets of the Pharma companies, and psychologists who promote this bullshit.
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Criteria.
fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes in schoolwork, work or other activities
has difficulty sustaining attention in tasks or play activity
does not seem to listen when spoken to directly
does not follow through on instructions and fails to finish
schoolwork, chores or duties in the workplace (not due to oppositional
behavior or failure to understand instructions)
has difficulty organizing tasks and activities
avoids, dislikes, or is reluctant to engage in tasks that require sustained mental effort (such as schoolwork or homework)
looses things necessary for tasks or activities (e.g., toys, school
assignments, pencils, books or tools)easily distracted by extraneous
stimuli
forgetful in daily activities
fidgets with hands or feet or squirms in seat
leaves seat in classroom or in other situations in which remaining seated is expected
runs about or climbs excessively in situations in which it is inappropriate
(in adolescents or adults, may be limited to subjective feelings of restlessness)
has difficulty playing or engaging in leisure activities quietly
often “on the go” or often acts as if “driven by a motor”
talks excessively
blurts out answers before questions have been completed
difficulty awaiting turn
Interrupts or intrudes on others (e.g., butts into conversations or
games)
The guidelines are aimed at young males. It basically peggs the typical young male as diseased. This similar pegging is used in the ‘are you abused’ pamphlets in the socialist services lobbies which depict a crying female curled into a ball on the cover. The brochures are aimed at mothers encouraging them to dissolve their family and abandon their spouse with the free gratis help of the authorities and slick local cabalist lawyers. They have checklists to define every mother and child as abused with questions like ”do you sometimes disagree and argue with your abuser?” ”does the abuser refuse to give you money?” ”does the abuser sometimes read your mail?’ ”does he dislike you having feminist friends?” They re define or re term fathers as ‘the abuser’. It is semantic defamation of all males, especially fathers.
The people that push this crap in the dhhr circles should be railroaded. Not every woman falls for the shit but the chatter from every poarch in the projects is the same. Single whores blabbering all day about so and so father owing money and talk of calling the law on the latest guy they’re screwing. Preying mantis shit talk, all of it. The life of the retarded welfare whores must truly be hell on earth for all involved with them.
We need more people willing to do this. When some mediocre person tries to shame there way into success, we need people willing to slap them down and tell them to grow up. Everyone is thinking it, but it seems that few people are will to say it. How these know nothing professional victims ever got the power they hold over society continues to baffle me.
Good topic to write about and on point. But super long winded…..my ADHD was kicking in at the end
She’s not a slow reader. But a slow learner. a.k.a. A moron !
Having been diagnosed with ADHD at age 10, I have to say that ADHD is indeed bullshit. A bullshit idea created to milk money from gullible parents that have a perfectly healthy child. The problem was never in the child, the problem was in the parents failing to fulfill their duty adequately. But instead of being told the truth, that they are piss poor parents, they get a prescription drug for their child.
my close friend on the other hand, was diagnosed with OCD. Although he doesn’t use the phrase to describe himself, he is a red piller through and through. He is also the most persistent hardworking bastard I’ve ever meet. A full out perfectionist that doesn’t see failure as an option.
with that out of the way, I think you guys can only imagine how vomit inducing this this bitch is to the both of us…
Sulkowicz and Spector are both jewish names. We know that Sulkowicz is a half jew. Any guess how much jew blood is in Spector?
in the bible, jesus is betrayed by jews.
it also describes muhammed as a ‘wild ass of a man’.
it’s strange how prescient the bible is…
that leaves only WASPS as the rational actors in this world. makes a man think..
What do all these psycho women do when they enter the workplace where they have to produce or get fired. Your employer doesn’t care about your fake disease, hell your employer doesn’t care about your real diseases.
The plus in women like these twats, or any women who constantly plays victim, is that no matter how much they may “succeed” in gaining the attention for their fruitless “causes”, and even gain funds in their “quests”, they will always be miserable self hating wretches. They are worthless little girls who never had the cajones to make it on their own, and their insane envy for those of us who can shit and blink at the same time drives them to pull desperate stunts like this. They need to prove to their delusional minds that it is, in fact, the PLANET, that sucks, not them. Keep on with the escapades ladies, it’s wont stop you from seeing that wretch you stare at every morning in the mirror.
ADHD and OCD are real, I have traits of both of them. But they sure as hell DON’T warrant any special treatment in exams. As an Asperger patient, I don’t get any special breaks either and I don’t have any issues with it. The crowning achievement of any Aspie is to succeed in the normal world playing on their rules. Course, that’s a lot different from discrimination, which I agree with the article’s author, this self entitled idiot doesn’t have. How the Oxford administrators even admitted her I don’t know. Perhaps there’s more than one mentally ill person in the story ( the obvious one being this stupid girl )
Every time feminism or social justice is involved, eventually shit will hit the fan. The ideas behind them at glance sound noble, but in practice those movements are inherently vile and insatiable because ANYONE can be a victim over ANYTHING.
And once the victims/leaders get a platform and make some “progress” it’s hard to give it up. That sweet pleasure of having followers listening to every word you say, the fame of being a figure, having status, power, the conviction of doing something better for the society, and the income that comes along with everything. Why give it up when there’s no reason for it?
ADHD is mostly an excuse to sedate the typically active behaviour of young boys.
The Femtards will figure out a way to blame men for autism.
Wait! I spoke too soon
http://www.inquisitr.com/2165612/austism-linked-to-parental-age-study-says-age-of-parents-may-contribute-to-risk-factors-but-not-the-cause-of-autism/
This alleged study is worth less than nothing but naive people (most people) will read it and believe that an older man with a young woman have a greater chance to have an autistic kid.In fact the opposite is true and in my personal experience I’ve noted that over the years it’s was the kids with the older father who were the most intelligent, mature and well balanced.
You must look at these ‘studies’ as pure feminist propaganda(ever see studies about older females with younger men producing defective kids?).And when you add to that a broad definition of the condition eg. kid has trouble making friends (maybe he’s just a little bastard other kids don’t like lol) you have nothing but junk science here.
She might contemplate using some funds to purchase … ” magic beans!”
in the future you should include the offender’s name in the title so the article comes up during background checks
remember equalists shouldn’t be employed
This just in. . . There was a wedding and reception at the Waldorf the other day and a few people got shot by a drunken guest. (This whole she-bang cost millions of dollars, by the way.) When the bride heard that the hotel was cancelling the event she started screaming and became hysterical. Never mind that people were being taken to the hospital and the police were arresting people, she wanted her reception no matter what and had an emotional breakdown when she couldn’t have it. I feel really, really sorry for the new husband. Although at that economic status, I’m sure it’s not a “real” marriage and just to unite two monied families.
How exactly has the author come to know that OCD is a ‘concocted medical condition’? I wish he could have posted this earlier, because clearly I stayed up at nights fighting the urge to turn a light on and off 32 times exactly based on a fake condition (which, at 16, I had no prior knowledge of). It’s interesting that he doesn’t leave any space in the article to explain how OCD is ‘concocted’ because I would like to see how he reasons that.
the problem with this site is that some authors are really stupid and ignorant.Look what this idiot writes about himself : ”Theodore Gumbril is a man with a chisel chipping away at the foundation of Cultural Marxism”.
Are you shaking your head yet? I am. Theodore Gumbril is just a stupid man who doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about.
OH MY GOD. OK FIRST OF ALL ADHD IS A RECOGNIZED DISORDER INTERNATIONALLY. YOU ARE HARASSING PEOPLE SAYING THEY DONT HAVE A REAL DISORDER. Second the mattress is about people, living human beings, getting RAPED. If you, any one reading this comment, think that this article is IN ANYWAY CORRECT IN ITS OPINIONS do me a favor and shove a truck up your ass you crap coated mailbox flag. I could paint with all the colors of your ignorance. I will respect your opinions as long as it doesn’t disrespect my existence.
these fuckers are too stupid and ignorant to understand. They think that a disability is like, one must be blind, or be in a wheelchair. Otherwise it’s all well.
Hope they get cancer.
Yesss thank god someone doesnt have their head up their ass on this site. (Btw was orginally rToo)
Nevermind still rToo diqus is just being weird
(1) ADHD is also widely recognised internationally to have been overdiagnosed and overprescribed — particularly in small boys, not that feminazis like you give a shit about anything that has a penis.
(2) Emma Sulkowicz’s mattress is founded on a lie: the lie that she was raped, and for which the university is being sued by the guy who supposedly raped her. Shall we get into her sex tape now?
You people make me sick
What I start correcting you wimps and you guys are to much of a coward to even reply.
I am all against feminism and manipulation, but just as well I don’t understand ignorant idiots who think that disabilities are something seen, like blindness, or missing an arm, etc.
I am not defending the woman because she’s a woman.
The woman may be manipulative, but maybe not. Who says her problems are ‘excuses’? The ignorant fuck who wrote this stupid article? If she has been assessed as having learning difficulties and dyslexia and problems etc by a doctor, then her problems are real, though they may seem ‘made up’ by ignorant idiots who still have to get their taste of real, hard life, which I hope they’ll get. That asshole who said ‘she needs a doctor that can be ‘straight’ and ‘firm’ with her’ is just an old armchair critic wanker, it should be he the one being forced out of the university. Seriously, to have idiots like these working in university in this century? It’s a damn learning institution, if someone is a slow reader because of dyslexia or some other learning difficulties, and they have been admitted to the university, the goddamn university can’t just brush off her problems.
Get real, bastards, and stop watching stupid American movies where ‘you can be the master of your own destiny’ , ‘nothing is impossible’ and ‘be a millionaire’. I hope that every ignorant assholes who brush people’s problems off just because they are too stupid and ignorant to understand, that their health becomes bad too. These idiots need a lesson from life, and that’s what I wish for them.
See, that’s the problem with this site. Some articles are really good, and some are really stupid. It’s true that women can be manipulative and make excuses, but give me a fucking break. Paradoxically, you respond with an excuse to what in your ignorance you believe it must be an excuse.
”Theodore Gumbril is a man with a chisel chipping away at the foundation of Cultural Marxism”.
Don’t make me laugh, you are probably one of the most ignorant dudes I came across.
” If she has been assessed as having learning difficulties and dyslexia and problems etc by a doctor, then her problems are real…”
Context is rather important on the allegation Balliol College was Being A Bunch Of Retrograde Old Meanies. When you look at the entirety of the offending e-mail (which her lawyers released to the media)…
http://i0.wp.com/media.tab.co.uk/uploads/2015/06/Email-1.jpg?resize=960%2C455
http://i0.wp.com/media.tab.co.uk/uploads/2015/06/Email-21.jpg?resize=640%2C350
…you find the prime concern the College had was that she did not have the academic qualifications to do the course. Per the lines prior to the discussion about her disability, which you can find above the highlighted section:
“She has NO maths background or training of even the most minimum standard to do the course. She was ‘home-schooled’ and this led to academic gaps in her education not easily papered over.”
In other words, irrespective of her disability which didn’t help matters, she should not have been in the course at all. At a guess, politics and philosophy having no mathematical component to them, she had no background in mathematics required for university-level economics, the third subject of the PPE. At a further guess, she avoided maths at A level and instead took soft, subjective courses in English, history, etc, etc. where you can bullshit your way through if you’re good at parroting talking points from the text.
She was admitted (and this is the context of the ‘Why did we admit her?’ comment) wrongly to a course for which she was not qualified or equipped academically. This looks to have been the error of a doddering old assessor in philosophy — who apparently died shortly thereafter saddling Balliol with someone who could not possibly complete the course.
Interestingly, Spector and her lawyers never mention that little titbit from the letter. It may still be fucking Spector over by default — but it’s not fucking her over by reason of her disability. Spector and her lawyers, though, are harping large on the disability because it’s the aspect of the case that most gets headlines and most gets uninformed fucks (like, say, yourself) venting their spleens online and throwing shit at Balliol College. Because if the story was simply ‘Girl sues College for admitting her to a course she was academically unqualified to do’, you’d be laughing at her, not donning your white armour and leaping onto your valiant steed.
And even in the discussion about her disabilities it seems she wasn’t too proactive about hooking up with the University Disability services that were there and available. Moreover, the e-mail says that if given *everything she asked for* on a *good* day she would have been at the absolute limit of concessions even the disabilities people would have conceded as allowable and not taking the piss. The e-mail goes on to say she was affecting other students as well.
All of that said: it’s a very, very interesting comment on the British education system that you can apparently be homeschooled, pull A-levels in assorted subjects, and yet still be woefully unprepared for university-level academics. What you need to ask is whether this incident demonstrates one of the following:
(a) homeschooling is shit
(b) A levels are shit given you can have massive gaps in your education and yet still achieve them
(c) the control mechanisms for homeschooling are shit; or
(d) university all but requires you to go through the sausage factory of the public education system and that’s the way it is?
Two small things. PPE _isn’t_ considered one of the harder degrees at Oxford, And it isn’t ‘the proof is in the pudding’ (which is recent, and makes no sense), but ‘the proof of the pudding is in the eating’.
As long as you’re here: what level of mathematics would be needed to do the economics component of the PPE? The evil e-mail involved which I found on a Google search suggests she had no maths background or training required to do the course (see further down).
Hi. I couldn’t say what sort of mathematical skills are needed to undertake PPE, and I’ve often wondered. I suspect many (most?) people who choose this option come at it with a purely humanities background, and yet in some cases manage to do well. David Cameron took a First in PPE, yet I doubt whether he studied mathematics beyond the age of sixteen. I further suspect that the teaching approach in the economics component is a very traditional narrative one, and not ferociously quantitative. Others would be able to give better informed answers than I can – I studied biochemistry at Leeds.
(I’ve just had a look at the online guidance for prospective PPE students.- post-16 mathematics seems to be considered useful but not essential.)
Cheers, appreciated.
My pleasure. Keep meditating.