GeniesLoki

Making me even more convinced that mental health diagnoses are about how much of an inconvenience are you causing to others (including the doctors).

We've gone a bit further than "shutting the relative who brings shame on the family in the asylum", but only a bit

Further thoughts: "if you get diagnosed, you might re-evaluate the times you thought about yourself as lazy, stupid, and other such adjectives". Is there a difference? Or have we just switched the words in order to temporarily remove the social stigma?

Eg. people find it unpleasant if you don't meet commitments irrespective of whether it's lack of respect or executive function problems. So what you see is new medical terms becoming slurs. When I was a kid, "Down" was used as a slur, after Down's syndrome.

"I'm relieved, I'm not a bad person, I just have a condition" "What's a bad person?" "You know, someone with bad character" Except we usually treat character as something you're born with, often inherited. Like a condition.

The only relief is that it might get people to lay off religious propaganda.

People think you can cure bad character by performing religious practices (for real - look up people arguing that criminal sentences should be shortened if a prisoner attends religious services), but there's less support to the idea that praying hard might stop you being autistic

Side note: There's a lot of widely held support for the idea that religious practice can make you less ADHD, and in this corner of Twitter also less autistic, we just call it "meditation" instead of "prayer"