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> Why is it just expected that boys can’t pay attention

According to this [0] boys have a 4x higher chance of being diagnosed with ADHD than girls. I think you would have a very difficult time arguing that that's because of how we socialise boys.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3101894/#:~:tex....

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So you're saying our society is unable to work with boys correctly?

What would "correctly" even mean in this context? The whole point seems to be that no, society is utterly incapable of handling their behaviour and tries hard to just somehow get the to behave like girls instead, attributing all differences to social factors instead of acknowledging biological (mostly hormonal) differences and addressing them.

However a "correct" way would look like, statistics certainly indicate that the current system is far from it.

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