No, because a broad and vague set of self-reported symptoms can't "become" anything, or act at all. Psychologists and psychiatrists seem to over-diagnose all k

No, because a broad and vague set of self-reported symptoms can't "become" anything, or act at all. Psychologists and psychiatrists seem to over-diagnose all kinds of disorders, because they profit from dispensing medications. Claiming to suffer from this or that disorder, labeling oneself as ADHD, autistic, "on the spectrum," introverted, neurodivergent, etc. indicate a rise in narcissism and self-absorption more than anything else, combined with the American tendency to victimhood. Those disorders do afflict people to varying degrees, but I think they have turned into a kind of badge of specialness, more claimed and used as an excuse than treated by professionals. And the professionals don't agree and may not know what to do beyond creating more addicts. I got "diagnosed" with both ADHD -- they called it "hyperactive" back then -- and borderline autism, as a child. Those professional opinions came from elementary school teachers and school nurses. My mother refused to medicate me, believing children should not take psychoactive drugs just to sit still in school. She put me in a better school instead. I thank her for that. Two of my own children got similar crackpot diagnoses from teachers and principals. We decided to homeschool them, they turned out fine.