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How does any first year resident edit books like this? He/they checked all the boxes.

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This "textbook" sounds like outrageous stuff screaming with unworldly 'American World Series Syndrome," as I call it, the belief that humanity is shaped the way Americans see it. I've written on the "third sex" of hijras of India, I'm writing about the caste system as we speak; ain't nothing White supremacist about it.

It's a shame Dr. Goetz has hijacked 'neurodivergent.' I have raging ADHD and I prefer to use that term: just because my brain filters and couldn't focus on unimportant crap that was lazily stuffed into the standardized, rickety Victorian education system doesn't mean I was deficient in attention; nobody who has experienced my "Eye of Sauron" hyperfocus would think that. And it's not a "disorder," which I define as something that can be reordered after being disturbed. It really is a different kind of brain, but only neurodivergents can see that. Neurotypicals see us as disordered because they're the vast majority and usually have the ability to focus on the unimportant and the critical equally if instructed to.

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