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drill sergeant rhetoric directed at yourself is like flailing in quicksand & will only make you sink deeper and deeper into all your struggles

drill sergeant rhetoric directed at others will never help them, will never help you, & will make you lose friends very, very quickly
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RT @visakanv
Seeing some tweets on the TL about ADHD and I’m feeling a thread coming up... I have written several in the past but I’m not sure if any directly t…
twitter.com/visakanv/status/13

and if you direct that rhetoric at your *children*, there's a special place for you... somewhere where it's nice and warm.

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RT @parafactual
@pee_zombie i know it doesn't work because it was drilled into me as i grew up

i didn't get "better" i just got traumatized
twitter.com/parafactual/status

you cannot "lol just try harder and get better you lazy broken degenerate retard" yourself OR others into getting better

simply not how it works! sorry! play again!

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RT @visakanv
there is a lot of work that a person with ADHD can do to make life less miserable. But what I’m trying to convey here is that you can’t install an authoritarian government and expect to control a messy, chaotic, irreverent, independent people. You have to re…
twitter.com/visakanv/status/13

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