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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently [refers](https://www.cdc.gov/cerebral-palsy/about/index.html) to CP as “the most common motor disability in childhood.”
But focusing the majority of work on early detection and treatment has skewed awareness of the permanent nature of the disability, Peterson writes. He says it has led to a dearth of data on adults living with cerebral palsy and fosters a misperception that CP occurs only in children.
Why One Expert Says It’s Time to Redefine Cerebral Palsy - The Washington Post
Erin Blakemore
It claims too much, I think, in painting a picture of hapless individuals at the mercy of large tech companies. While the compulsion and force of habit is strong, I think for most of us it falls short of being usefully called addiction. Consequently, we have more agency over the conduct of our lives than a dopamine culture framing seems to suggest. But if we have more agency than we’re given credit for, then we also have more responsibility. It may be tempting to believe we have less agency than we, in fact, possess precisely because it frees us from the burden of responsibility.
Desire, Dopamine, and the Internet
The Convivial Society
The fundamental problem is that this attitude toward time sets up a rigged game in which it’s impossible ever to feel as though you’re doing well enough. Instead of simply living our lives as they unfold in time—instead of just being time, you might say—it becomes difficult not to value each moment primarily according to its usefulness for some future goal, or for some future oasis of relaxation you hope to reach once your tasks are finally “out of the way.”
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
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