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> My ADHD and Autism I can understand if you feel bad about the article, then. Autism is a bit often discussed here at HN, is it? At the same time, the articl
by HappyDreamer 5y ago
> My ADHD and Autism
I can understand if you feel bad about the article, then. Autism is a bit often discussed here at HN, is it?
At the same time, the article focuses on borderline (BPD), which is very different from autism or ADHD, is it?
I had a mental illness too (something else than BPD, autism and ADHD). Like you, I didn't write or say anything bad to others. Still, I appreciate the article, I think it's a small step for me towards understanding the Internet even better:
I know a borderline person, and I'm not the slightest surprised if in some cases, such a person can write extremely mean things to others on the internet. The person I know, does this in real life to people s/he loves, when too stressed up (about minor things others wouldn't think much about). It's not her fault; instead, s/he had a bad childhood.
(At the same time, there're also, of course, many other reasons for bad behavior on the net.)
- eyelidlessness 5y agoI know several people who are borderline. Some I know or have known quite closely. I don’t think it’s fair to characterize their contribution to harmful internet behavior as disproportionate without also quantifying their proportion of internet behavior (it’s small). And I definitely don’t think it’s fair to qualitatively describe the relative level of bad internet behavior of people with mental illness based on the behavior of people with personality disorders, which is just a subset of mental illness. Edit: and not all people with personality disorders just go around the world/internet acting harmfully.