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Maybe "grit", like phlogiston, isn't real, and neurotransmitters are?
by pjc50 1y ago
Maybe "grit", like phlogiston, isn't real, and neurotransmitters are?
- inglor_cz 1y agoThis would be my suspicion as well. Once upon a time, diseases like scurvy, leprosy and cholera were described as caused by insufficient moral fibre of the patient. Maybe this sort of moralizing is the best indicator that the underlying cause of the disease is, in fact, unknown yet.
- mrguyorama 1y agoThe current scare mongering over an "increase" in Autism rates is entirely driven by the fact that we stopped diagnosing autistic people as having other intellectual disabilities Done by the same people who demonstrably treat ADHD as just "laziness"