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We definitely need more players willing to fall over! Bring back shithousery is our identity

He definitely has a lot of good stuff going on! And the fact he seemingly doesn’t have any interest in getting forward is fine in Jaissle’s system. But as someone who grew up with the CB partnership of Bramble and Boumsong, “he’s great if you ignore the fuck-ups” is a pattern I’m wary of

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Standard practice - across the profile, bigger = better. Anything measuring rates of negative stuff are inverted for clarity

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It’ll be inverted - more surface area = better. There were a few incidents leading to goals last season.

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I have no wish to piss on my own chips but I think I can see the answer to “why are Man City willing to take a loss on a massively hyped young player in the current CM market, and why is no bigger club coming in to gazump us?” #nufc

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Given the market for CMs and the record of our lunch getting eaten should we be worried by the absence of competition here? (yes I am suspicious of transfer-related joy, can you blame me)

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Tired: everybody should have their own owl Wired: everybody should have their own Greggs

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If your diagnosis helps you then that’s genuinely great and I wouldn’t want to take that away. And I’m not expecting to change anyone’s mind here! But reasonable people can disagree on this - and this lengthy thread hopefully demonstrates that we can do so amicably

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“Some people play on the fears of those who don't understand difference to try to drive the different out of society” - this is undeniably true. But it does not include everyone who thinks there are issues here.

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“if it is that they think experts are lying... what for?” - I don’t think anyone thinks experts who dismiss claims of overdiagnosis are lying. People can legitimately interpret the same evidence differently. There is room for healthy debate here.

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“why would it be unhelpful to have more knowledge about how a child's brain works” - you’re right, that would always be helpful. But the point of contention is whether for some kids what is being presented as knowledge is misleading

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4. The more of the spectrum included, the more diluted the benefits of diagnosis you list are for those that most need it - the less clear the understanding of what the diagnosis is, of what works, of the case for accommodations

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3. The diagnosis becoming an identity and community causes aggressive, tribal responses to anyone raising reasonable questions about things like overdiagnosis in ways that shut down our ability to do things better/prevent harm (again not accusing you of this!)

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2. The diagnosis becoming an identity and community provides powerful incentives against getting better.

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1. Making regular human weaknesses a pathology doesn’t just stigmatise them (and yes we should work on removing stigmas); it also makes people feel they have no power to get better at stuff they’re naturally less good at/inclined to in ways that do not leave them better off

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“I think most experts genuinely hold that there isn't over diagnosis” - there plainly is debate on this among experts. “when people worry about 'over diagnosis' the question for me is: why? What are you fearing?” - I’ve partially answered this before but to set my thinking out:

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“At primary school, around age 5-6, I was tied to a chair and caned for not sitting still. That is the world these sons of bitches want to take us back to” (Tchaikovsky) - this is exactly the tribalism I was talking about

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“It made a world of difference because his school had to make accommodations” (Tchaikovsky) - this is great! I am not saying autism or ADHD don’t exist, nor that accommodations shouldn’t be made when they’re appropriate!

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…The contention is some people are being told they have something they don’t - or that what they have is a pathology when that’s inappropriate - in ways that equally cut off experience and solutions.

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“Pretending they don't have something they do is cutting off experience and possible solutions” - I don’t think anyone’s advocating people should pretend they don’t have something they do. …

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…We all have to work on stuff our brains struggle with. Fatalism that doing so leads to burnout or depression risks being self-fulfilling.

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“Believing you're 'normal' and working harder can work in the short term, but risks long term burnout and serious depression” - the binary of ‘normal’/adhd I don’t think is true or helpful here. …

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“it's more helpful to know how your brain might and might not work” - I agree! But the more inclusive the definition, the less a diagnosis actually provides you with this.

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“they'll *always* have to work this hard” - will they? This is the kind of fatalism I worry is damaging.

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“the sudden realisation that not everyone has to work this hard“ - I see where you’re coming from, but this is true for everyone. we all have to work harder than some and less hard than others. the worry is precisely that we‘re including a large % of that spectrum and unduly pathologising it

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Hey so there’s a lot there! I appreciate the good faith back and forth here on a topic where that is often not the case on all sides. My thoughts as I run through it:

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Why not both…? If there are good ways to reduce bias in assessment then that’s great and we should obviously do it, but the damage from wider gender-based biases are not limited to exams (even just within education, let alone wider society)

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

See also: boys bsky.app/profile/harr...

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(to be clear, there are equally folks on the other side of the debate who are incensed by the idea there might be anything in it at all, who are just as tribal - and so the cycle turns)

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My view fwiw is that we should keep what’s net helpful for people, which is a good chunk of what exists right now, but the balance atm probably isn’t right - but saying anything sceptical can see you treated as an enemy, which is a path we've all seen before and it doesn’t lead anywhere good

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identity it can discourage trying to get better at it. It can also lead to tribalism whereby well-meaning people worrying about unhelpful overdiagnosis (especially in kids) are seen as threats to how diagnosed folks see themselves (not accusing you of that - this has been refreshingly edifying!)

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That’s fair, and is extremely positive. And if it’s helpful for you then that's a good thing! The worry is that for some folks it’s not - I’ve seen people stop trying to do stuff they find harder after diagnosis in ways that haven’t left them better off; where “I’m bad at xyz“ becomes part of one’s

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My worry is that defining one’s community as ‘people with brains like mine’ causes issues. And fundamentally no-one’s brain works exactly like anyone else’s. We’re all part of a community of people with weird brains, because that includes literally everyone.

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If the medication works for you, then great! Take it!

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It does feel like the ideal answer is to work out how to enable people not to feel guilty about their foibles rather than needing validation that they’re in a broadly defined category with other befoibled people for it to be ok (not least for people with foibles that don’t fit such a category)

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“Odysseus is the cleverest of us all“ ad nauseam - no! He spends the whole film doing dumb shit then John Wicks eleventy armed goons who killed his dog. Telemachus is “so much like his big clever dad” - no! He’s shite useless. He will be a hopeless king and his head will shortly be on a spike.

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

[After winning an important football match against bitter rivals] yeah but remember that time we started an actual war with you guys and lost dreadfully

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Yeah about that (this is also why Howe would be a v bad choice)

Yeah I always find that dynamic odd. If e.g. your name is Smith and you live in the US, who do you think the colonists *were*?

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His Wario, Samuel Face-de-Antimatiere

Monogamy was famously invented by Victoria and Albert in 1840

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I raise you cheddar cheese and monogamy

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You’ve got to remember the French famously don‘t have arrogant views about the superiority of their culture and have no problematic history of colonialism

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