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Lokarin posted...

Your example sounds like a first world problem. When I hear about school problems it's NEVER that overachievers weren't able to overachieve, it's always bullying, terrible grades, radical foxnews stuff, radical cnn stuff and statutory

I think you're underestimating how damaging stress is on a young mind. Many people never recover from a stressful upbringing. Your brain regulates itself during that period to best adapt to that environment, and if everything is a constant threat then your brain begins hacking itself up to find a solution.

A lot of research is turning up which says that stress during childhood is strongly related to the sharp increases in ADHD, Anxiety, and Depression diagnoses we're seeing. They're like maladaptations of the brain, in order to cope with the immense demands we place on it. Eventually it starts specializing at schooling (rapidly swapping tasks, dismissing information shortly after learning it, dissociating from the constant boring situations, avoiding contemplation of the future, etc) instead of life, because adapting is what young brains do.

Truth be told, the symptoms of starting school a year earlier than normal are pretty similar to the symptoms of childhood trauma.
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