Month: June 2016

People with attention deficit disorder or learning disabilities are often greeted with skepticism. We have all heard the myths that ADD was invented by drug companies to make money, or that all a person with attention deficit disorder (ADD) or a learning disability (LD) needs is discipline. In some other cases, at school for instance, many people don’t understand why some individuals getting good grades, have access to privileges like extra time on exams, note-takers paid by the school, and homework extensions, otherwise known as accommodations. The symptoms of LD…

My sad story begins in Montreal, the urban capital of Quebec. My childhood and kindergarten years were a blast. Frankly, the only thing I remember vividly is crying one afternoon because my mom had arrived late one day to pick me up from the daycare center; I thought she had abandoned me or sold me for a wedding ring she had been yearning for. Fast forward a few years, and high school was the next milestone in my life. It first seemed daunting, but friends made it all the better….

It’s been nearly one year since I was diagnosed with major depressive disorder. It seems as if it was yesterday when I had to be taken to the emergency room. However, when I recall all that has happened in the past year, it seems like a lifetime in itself. I used to ask myself a very interesting question, why do people commit suicide? It sounds so impractical and weird. Every problem in this world comes with a solution. So how can anyone think of killing oneself? Soon I had an answer. As a…

I don’t believe in politics. It is not to say that politics have no place in society. Quite the contrary, I think it plays an important role in any healthy civilization. My issue is with what politics has become, and what people expect from it. After the recent Canadian federal election which saw Justin Trudeau win a majority government, I began to ask myself, as a far left-leaning individual, whether or not a Conservative victory would have been best for the citizens. I do not make this point out of…