Dude...
This is a damn good point. We medicate and treat kids to function in environments they are not really "made" to function in.
Modern big city human civilization is not what humans are programmed to do. We best function in tribal settlements of 60-300 people where we occasionally meet up with neighboring settlements to exchange goods, culture, and marriages. This is also why racism is fundamentally inborn into our genes - if we ran across humans that did not look like our neighboring settlements, it was not a good thing because they could be enemies that could kill us or take our goods.
Anyway, I am 100% going to use your point about environment, in the future.
It applies to little boys, as well: they don't do as well in the classroom setting because little boys are not designed to sit in a classroom looking at a projection/chalkboard. We are failing our young men with outdated teaching methods.
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