Alternately, some people face more than one tough challenge in their experience such that their “clinical” presentation is modulated in chaotic ways by all the

Alternately, some people face more than one tough challenge in their experience such that their “clinical” presentation is modulated in chaotic ways by all the other shit they deal with. With all the championing of identifying as this or that, it’s easy to forget that identity is reductive and that whole, complicated, multifaceted people are involved. It’s certainly true that there are people who chase delusions, identify with some struggle for attention or to feel included in a community, but your approach of evaluating their “clinical symptoms” (are you a clinician?) probably isn’t a very accurate way of spotting them. In fact, it’s just really hard to do altogether, let alone from an armchair.