It’s not about the science, it’s about the social structures we’ve built around disability. Call it bullshit all you want. I can climb on the rooftops and scr

It’s not about the science, it’s about the social structures we’ve built around disability. Call it bullshit all you want. I can climb on the rooftops and scream “mental health diagnosis is bullshit!” and at the end of the day I still legally have the diagnosis’s I have, I get social and tax benefits from being disabled, people whisper about (correct) rumours of me being disabled, I still belong to the disabled identity group regardless of the scientific validity of grouping us. I’ve had similar “it’s all bs so why care about self-diagnosis” and there are good reasons. First physical health conditions can be misdiagnosed as developmental disabilities. It fucking alarms me the people with no childhood history of a mental disorder will self-diagnose themselves with it as adults. The second is there are some people who clearly aren’t all right upstairs and there is a risk of diluting resources. I honestly am fatalistic about the issue though and think eventually the mental health status quo will implode