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Maybe people feel a lot more unique, important or special when they call themselves AS instead of plain shy, or ADD instead of lazy - or even call themselves "d
by herval 17y ago
Maybe people feel a lot more unique, important or special when they call themselves AS instead of plain shy, or ADD instead of lazy - or even call themselves "depressed" when they have plenty of reason to be sad...
It's also potentially better for less ethical doctors to diagnose their "I-want-to-be-sick" included patients as this or that - after all, they use to get comissions for drug sales in many countries (and taking Prozac or Ritalin, even if you're a "normal person", won't kill you anyway)
- ErrantX 17y agoI know why the above was downvoted. But here is a subtle point in there. AS is classically over diagnosed. A lot of my friends were diagnosed AS at school. The vast majority of them had an epiphany moment that "cured" it in the last few years. It makes me mad because a minority of those friends really do have a problem. So many people are told they are AS it negates any benefit of diagnosis.
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