Re: What you may be doing that keeps you from making friends

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My heritage is Ukrainian also. I’m gonna agree with Ivriniel on the Cossack theory because it’s sounds as plausible.

Much like the “Jewish Anxiety Syndrome”. That theory suggests that only those people who felt something terrible was going to happen left town, those that didn’t suffered the consequences. A genetic DNA thing that just happened to develop during several generations? Calling David Suzuki!

Cossacks + Jewish people = Pograms? One ethnic culture with a higher than normal rate of a specific neurological disorder eventually affecting another ethic culture that resulted in possibly another neurological disorder? Highly simplified, I know.

These two cultures probably had these issues bubbling away under the surface for a long, long time. The Jewish people having been persecuted and kicked around in Europe for hundreds of years. The Ukrainian Cossacks not really having a homeland and always caught between the Mongols or Muslim armies invading from the east and various European expansionist empires invading from the west. (The Russians, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Poland, Germany, and I believe even the Swedes, and, oh yeah, Vikings!, to name a few. Again, a highly simplified view.

The historical evidence seems to suggest something. There could be a paper in here for someone’s thesis.

After being diagnosed with ADD, my wife has commented that she see these ADD traits in many members of my family. And when she hears the stories, the antics and the escapades during family get-togethers, just confirms our belief about higher incidence of ADD among Ukrainians. Not all, but more than a few: mostly undiagnosed, and in some cases, self medicated.

I like to tell her that ADD was God’s way of preventing Ukrainians from taking over the world…..

Have a great Canada Day…and be thankful we live in the greatest country in the world!

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