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mieses on Jan 21, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: FBI files on Richard Feynman

In the present day war on boys and brains, our institutions would have had Feynman locked up and medicated at age 5.

dreyfiz on Jan 21, 2014 | [–]

"War on boys and brains" and "locked up" are rather florid characterizations of the ADHD condition and its treatments.

adharmad on Jan 21, 2014 | [–]

You don't say! Especially given all his experiments on radios, chemistry and other gadgets. I have little doubts that he would have been a prankster computer hacker if he were in school today.

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