Marcus and Esme tell an honest to God happy story about ADHD. But first, Marcus expounds on the brilliance of a 1980s post disco classic, and Esme reveals yet another talent. Then, the O’Kayviuses set the stakes for their happy story by reviewing a recent study that revealed a link between ADHD and reduced life expectancy for adults. Then we get to the happy story.
Afterwards, Marcus and Esme take a moment to discuss how closing the Department of Education and “school choice” tax credit programs could theoretically result in shortening the lives of boys and girls all across the county, and why rich people like those policies. To be clear, rich people – some of them – like school choice policies, and policies that shrink the size of government. We didn’t mean to imply they want kids to live shorter lives. They would just prefer not to think about how those policies impact kids.
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Sources for this episode include:
- O'Nions, E., et al. (2025). Life expectancy and years of life lost for adults with diagnosed ADHD in the UK: matched cohort study. The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science, 1–8. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.199
- Tuckman, Ari. "As He Enters Retirement, Russell Barkley Looks Back." CHADD, 2022. Web. Accessed 15 Feb 2025. <https://chadd.org/attention-article/as-he-enters-retirement-russell-barkley-looks-back/>
- "Pa. Tax Credit Scholarships 101." Commonwealth Foundation, 24 Oct. 2024, https://commonwealthfoundation.org/research/pa-tax-credit-scholarships-eitc/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2025.
- "Vouchers, EITC, ESAs don't help students." Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, 19 Feb. 2025, https://www.pft.org/legislation/vouchers-eitc-esas-dont-help-students. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
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