ADHD, Schools, Girls

 Schools specifically identify boys who don't have ADHD, diagnose them, and drug them. The drugs are stimulants, making them jittery and distractable, like a girl.

 If a girl decides to focus on something, the teacher distracts her, and she forgets what she was thinking about.

 If a boy decides to focus on something, the teacher tries to distract him, fails, and becomes furious. "How dare you not focus on my shiny thing."

 

 It's normal for women to be so deeply into [out of sight, out of mind] that she will forget she's married if she doesn't have a shiny rock on her finger reminding her every time it catches the light. In premodern, less atomized times, she would be around other women, who would jealously remind her of her husband if she started making eyes at another man. Alternatively, she would remember because her husband's child is right there, clutching her skirt. Only tippy-top upper class wives can be relied on to remember they're married without some sort of physical memento. They may cheat anyway, but it's not because they genuinely forgot they're not supposed to. Why would a woman need to remember her husband? You're supposed to be mate-guarding her anyway.

 In a classroom, everyone is supposed to sit still, so the teacher is the only moving object, attracting the eye. This works decently well on girls, the gender of ADHD. Boys, however, see a mouse or baby rabbit, trying to pull them off the trail of the big game. Movement, yes, important, no. Unless they're hyped up on stimulants and can't focus. 

 Even if the teacher gets the boy onto the academic subject at hand, they will lose the boy at subject change. He will still be on the last topic, "distracted," rather than changing to the new one. 

 "Hey look a squirrel."
 "I'm not after a squirrel."
 *TEACHREEEEEEE*

 Getting distracted easily is a great thing for dealing with small children, who have small attention spans, or rather the largest possible spans that can fit in their tiny heads. Even if you try to keep them on topic, they can't handle it, so you're wasting your time. It is not, however, how a hunt works. You can't stop a hunt and pick it up later. "Okay deer, take five. I'll get back to trying to kill you a few. Maybe tomorrow, if necessary." 

 

 Your boys seem soulless on ritalin because that's exactly what ritalin is supposed to do: delete their masculinity. (Normal parents will of course double the dose on hearing this, and ask if he needs some puberty blockers ordered.) 

 When the teacher is not actively distracting the class, it's supposed to be quiet, so the only thing to focus on is the pointless busywork in front of them. It's not shiny, but everything else is even less shiny. By process of elimination, it gets done. Monkey see, monkey do, in a different sense. Even if girls weren't submissive, this would be a reasonable plan.

 My class had a computer with the sound on, which someone was seemingly always playing on, because evil is weak and incompetent. Even without the computer, there are usually many brightly coloured objects which, if the teacher isn't moving, draw the eye.
 Sadly there's a backup: becoming furious and bullying the students victims is the point of being a teacher. Preventing the students victims from doing their work, providing an excuse for sadism, can only be considered a perk of the job. If you want to remove disruption from the classroom concentration camp, the teacher and their admin other prison guards have to be the first to go. Top priority: defund educators. 

 

 When a boy is fidgeting, it's precisely because he isn't distracted. He's focusing on his goals. He's caught sight of his prey. Yet he's keeping in mind that someone has imprisoned him and prevents him from pursuing. He fidgets because he starts to make a motion toward his values, then remembers someone will become violent if he completes the motion. If he was genuinely distracted, he wouldn't be fidgeting, he would already be out of his seat and gone, having forgotten all about the alleged adults and their alleged rules. 

 So yes, ADHD is very real. However, the boys diagnosed with it in school are precisely the ones who have the least of it. The condition isn't fake, but the diagnosis is. 

 P.S. The reason the students victims are so often ""disruptive"" is that they're copying the teacher they see every day. Monkey see, monkey do, in the usual sense. See also: bullying. This dynamic is supposed to, and does, teach the lesson that having the government's favour puts you above the rules. This lesson is a rare non-misinformation lesson.