This definitely rings true to me! When I was young, I assumed that there were “problem children” from dysfunctional families. As long as I was a good, loving parent, my own kids would surely be OK. I was in for a surprise when my son reacted to school pressure and alienation (by teachers and students) by lashing out. Dropping out of school helped a lot, but he's still trying to find his place in the world six years later. A sense of belonging and purpose is missing for so many young people.
What is the specific diagnosis? I know several people working on various learning differences from a brain plasticity approach, and may be able to make a recommendation if I know the situation more accurately.
Diagnosed as inattentive type! Executive dysfunction challenges include: missing emails or meetings, abandoning tasks during context-switching, and difficulty working without impending deadline!
Sorry to be months late, but still love your article and would genuinely try out any advice!
Work in the ancient world absolutely had meaning. Don't plant the crops or harvest them, or huny and gather, you and your family starved. Don't fetch water or collect and cut firewood, you couldn't cook so you and yours went hungry again. Don't spin thread and make clothes, you and yours go naked.
Only someone who has never been hungry or cold or ill-clothed could imagine there is no meaning in that work.
This definitely rings true to me! When I was young, I assumed that there were “problem children” from dysfunctional families. As long as I was a good, loving parent, my own kids would surely be OK. I was in for a surprise when my son reacted to school pressure and alienation (by teachers and students) by lashing out. Dropping out of school helped a lot, but he's still trying to find his place in the world six years later. A sense of belonging and purpose is missing for so many young people.
As someone diagnosed as an adult when I first got a mostly-WFH email job — I’d love thoughts on how to apply this to adulthood as well!
What is the specific diagnosis? I know several people working on various learning differences from a brain plasticity approach, and may be able to make a recommendation if I know the situation more accurately.
Diagnosed as inattentive type! Executive dysfunction challenges include: missing emails or meetings, abandoning tasks during context-switching, and difficulty working without impending deadline!
Sorry to be months late, but still love your article and would genuinely try out any advice!
Well . . . maybe ‘evolutionary mismatch’ because Darwin was wrong.
Evidence accumulates
Thanks
Clay
Work in the ancient world absolutely had meaning. Don't plant the crops or harvest them, or huny and gather, you and your family starved. Don't fetch water or collect and cut firewood, you couldn't cook so you and yours went hungry again. Don't spin thread and make clothes, you and yours go naked.
Only someone who has never been hungry or cold or ill-clothed could imagine there is no meaning in that work.