Based on what data can you say these symptoms tend to come together though? This is a whole another problem with the diagnosis. A human being is making subject

Based on what data can you say these symptoms tend to come together though? This is a whole another problem with the diagnosis. A human being is making subjective judgements based on the self reporting of another human being. Most of the dsm is stuff like "is often inattentive in conversations", "often misplaces things". How often is "often"? How do you know on average how many times people misplace things? I have no issues with this at all if we just admit its not really a science and were just trying to treat patients