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A Biocultural Theory of ADHD

Explaining Canaries in the Coal Mine by Thomas Armstrong
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One of my fave papers, Canaries in the Coal Mine (which you can find in Chapter 2 of Critical New Perspectives on ADHD) is an argument that children labelled ADHD are more sensitive to the increasingly frenetic pace of life and are showing signs of distress first — Armstrong thinks we should see this as a sort of “biocultural feedback”, a warning that s…

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Internet scholarship, discourse analysis, and critical takes on ADHD
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