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People crave attention. Some people and kids do what they need to do to get attention. Look at the kids of Hollywood actors and how their afflictions affect t
by mc32 5y ago
People crave attention. Some people and kids do what they need to do to get attention. Look at the kids of Hollywood actors and how their afflictions affect their behavior.
That’s not to dismiss people who actually suffer from actual differences, but some of it is the same old “rebellion” in different clothing.
- nerdponx 5y agoIt's more than just "attention", it's about feeling individually special.
- jl2718 5y agoPerhaps that is a bigger need that ought to be addressed separately instead of mixing it in with the mental health industry. This may be the domain of the matchmaking industry, which basically exists to keep people feeling alienated.
- thathndude 5y agoThis is sadly all too common in the disabled community in general. I am not ignorant. I understand that many, perhaps the majority, of disabilities that exist in the United States are of the “invisible“ kind. However, the number of individuals who want to elevate their very common, and human, difficulties in life, to a “disability“ is ridiculous. If I had to diagnose most of these people, I would call them narcissists.
- SamoyedFurFluff 5y agoFunny because narcissism can be debilitating. Narcissistic personality disorder completely ruins a persons ability to have even just one healthy human interaction or relationship.
- jl2718 5y agoActually that’s interesting because logically it implies that anybody seeking diagnosis is in fact impaired.
- SamoyedFurFluff 5y agoI never mentioned that a narcissist would seek a diagnosis for their disorder, only that their disorder can be debilitating.
- tartoran 5y agoDebilitating to themselves but infinitely more harmful for the people they interact with. Maybe a diagnosis would open them up to some mitigations on their behavior. Narcissism personality disorder cannot be cured but sufferers can learn to do less harm.
- denton-scratch 5y agoNarcissism != Narcissistic Personality Disorder. A person that lacks narcissism will have a lot of problems.
- watwut 5y agoYou are fighting trend of making up diagnosis by making up diagnosis based on single assumed data point?
- ReactiveJelly 5y agoI wonder if craving attention is like being lazy. I won't say I have ADHD, but I am very lazy. For my entire life, I've found myself unable to just snap out of laziness and choose to stop being lazy. I don't believe that I'm selfishly lazy, because my laziness often causes obvious, preventable problems for me, and I still can't find the switch inside myself to turn it off. I wish we could set aside the labels and say "I'm lazy and I want to buy therapy to help me deal with being lazy." Maybe there is also a reason people are not getting their need for attention satisfied in whatever way they're supposed to. I satisfy my need for attention by being good at programming, and then talking to other programmers about programming. I notice most people (general population) don't have any particular skill worth showing off like I do. I don't know what the actionable to fix that is, though.
- 999900000999 5y agoI'd take it a step further. Instead of forcing people to fabricate various illnesses to get performance enhancing medications, just make it over the counter. Antidepressants, over the counter. ADHD drugs, over the counter. Anti-anxiety drugs, over the counter. As long as you're at least 21, you should have the right to ingest whatever you want. I personally wouldn't recreationally take any of the above, but I think everyone has a right to make their own choices. In America there's a billion dollar industry in convincing everyone their broken. As far as I'm concerned I'm the best me I can be and that's it.
- phil21 5y agoI'm pretty libertarian on most political charts, but offering benzos to people OTC seems like one of the last things I'd be trying to legalize. If we had no drug enforcement whatsoever, sure. But as long as we do benzos may be one of the most dangerous forms of substances we have short of straight up opiods.
- darepublic 5y agoOk sure but the notion that you are the best you you can be is also originating in America too
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- zepto 5y agoIronically many autistic people seek to avoid or moderate attention rather than craving it.