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Attention Deficit Disorder vs. Capitalism

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🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Independent scholar Laura Basu talks bout her OpenDemocracy article "Attention Deficit Disorder - The Anticapitalist Condition."

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0:00.0

This is hell.

0:02.0

Attention deficit

0:04.0

disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

0:06.0

are not what you think they are,

0:08.0

or at least are not what I thought they were.

0:10.0

After reading today's guest writing

0:12.0

and I had a reconsideration of the condition and I have a new understanding of AED and AEDH and their causes here to help us all have a better understanding of both so-called disorders.

0:23.8

Writer, editor, Independent Scholar Laura Bissou,

0:26.2

posted the Open Democracy article,

0:28.4

Attention Deficit Disorder,

0:30.1

the Anti-Capitalist Condition.

0:32.0

Welcome to This is how Laura.

0:35.0

Hi, thanks very much.

0:37.0

I'm so glad that we're having this conversation.

0:39.0

This is something I have actually been discussing within my family

0:42.0

because somebody who has been diagnosed recently,

0:44.4

you point out that your husband has attention deficit disorder.

0:48.3

While he hasn't actually been diagnosed, he's way too ADD for that.

0:52.5

Why do you believe your husband has ADD without being diagnosed?

0:56.7

What are the signs of ADD,

0:58.1

not just only in your husband, your personal experience,

1:01.1

but more generally.

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