[No I am not going to google this just to get aggravated again.]“Often,” Dr. Denckla [whoever the hell he (or she) is] said:
Now why the fork do you suppose I lost that link.“adults with executive deficits can be relatively successful, ‘as long as there is another human being—a co-author, a teacher, a wife—who acts as an auxiliary frontal lobe to keep them on track.”
And when the fork do you suppose this 19th century assumption is going to forkin’ die.
Shit, I coulda been a contender. I coulda been another ... Denckla.
If I had those auxiliary ... things, to keep me on track.
Grrrr.
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Assuming I'm understand your gripe, I should point out that Dr. Martha Denckla is a she, and she does research on - among other things - the influence of sex and gender on the expression of learning disabilities and ADHD. (Which perhaps makes the comment sound even more deserving of reproach.) But I think the point, in context, was just that people whose internal regulation is fluky might need an external regulator of some sort. Perhaps "Blackberry/Palm Pilot", "good friend", and "personal assistant" would have been better gender-neutral choices?
I don't know--unless it is a paid human being, when is a human being ever appriopriate for this sort of task? Typically, historically, tis thought to have been done out of love. That is, after slavery fell from fashion. Now that there is some- some - equality in the world ... well, really, this post was just a small funny, a footnote to Arggggh, v.1.
Besides, what makes you think Ms. Denckla cannot be suffering from a rather deep-seated case of terminal sexism? Many women do.
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