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Excellent point well said. It's part of why I find the neurodivergency movement likely harmful. It's the functional impairment that defines disease. Traits wh
by psychphysic 4y ago
Excellent point well said.
It's part of why I find the neurodivergency movement likely harmful.
It's the functional impairment that defines disease. Traits which help classify the disease if one is present are present in those without disease.
Shifting the definition from functional impairment to those traits is not a good thing.
- NoahKAndrews 4y agoJust because you're able to get through life doesn't mean there's not a lot of value in understanding yourself better.
- psychphysic 4y agoIf by understand yourself you mean pretend to have a diagnosable condition then there is something wrong. Claiming to have autism with no detectable impairment is like me claiming to be blind because despite having 6/6 vision (i.e. normal) because that's is actually worse than average vision for my age group (6/5 is average healthy young adult vision).