is ADHD a mental illness ?
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neurodevelopmental disorders are not caused by external/environmental factors. you cannot *develop* these conditions
my depression does cause distress by itself. there is often no trigger or cause but i can find myself bed bound for days because of my symptoms.
growing up with ADHD can be traumatising, which again increases the likelihood of mental illness but it is not always the case.
ADHD is hard. we often have to work twice as hard for half the work, but it is not a mental illness. not having the right accommodations and management can very quickly cause us to become mentally ill
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Now you know I love to sh-t in Harvard. But I also like accuracy. So I decided to go look at Harvard’s catalog to see its lack of military history that this article describes (they only teach history of pets it claims) and what I found shocked me! Shocked me! A thread: 1/
First off, Harvard students literally have multiple sections of military history that they can take listed. (It appears these ones are taught at MIT, so they might have to walk down the street for these) but... 2/
Say they want to stay on campus...they can only take numerous classes on war and diplomacy...3/
They have an entire class on Yalta. That’s right. An entire class on Yalta. 4/
But wait! There is more! They can take the British Empire, The Fall of the Roman Empire for those wanting traditional topics... 5/
\u201cMilitary history\u201d is only in decline if you\u2014like the author & experts in this obnoxious piece\u2014see the subject as a narrowly defined, white dude-oriented, guns & bayonets approach. The field is 1000% better off w/today\u2019s diversity of topics & historians. https://t.co/dUf3OWyVpQ
— Jonathan S. Jones (@_jonathansjones) February 1, 2021
First off, Harvard students literally have multiple sections of military history that they can take listed. (It appears these ones are taught at MIT, so they might have to walk down the street for these) but... 2/
![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtJnS76XYAQVkkc.jpg)
Say they want to stay on campus...they can only take numerous classes on war and diplomacy...3/
![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtJnTcoWMAE_VZW.jpg)
They have an entire class on Yalta. That’s right. An entire class on Yalta. 4/
![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtJnT9hXYAI02f2.jpg)
But wait! There is more! They can take the British Empire, The Fall of the Roman Empire for those wanting traditional topics... 5/
![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtJnUPmXcAMgRYD.jpg)