I am highly dubious that "Autism spectrum disorder' is a continuous spectrum or that its different components necessarily have all that much in comon with each other. The 'High Functioning Autism / Asbergers" individuals have been around for a very long time and have tended to all but dominate certain fields. This was true when I went into Physics / Engineering 50 years ago and from what I see, it is still true. It is my understanding that it was true well before my time. Yes, I was eventually diagnosed as an Aspie - as a side effect of the evaluation of my youngest daughter, but my extended family is full of probable aspies for generations. No, we are not well suited to high socialization, high extraversion activities, but our strengths match well with other valuable roles, so we do pretty well. The question is not if we are stock, standard social extraverts such as seems to be desired, but if we can find productive niches where our talents and aptitudes are well matched.
Just because somebody is different does not mean that they have a mental halth problem.
Well, respectfully, I respect your assessment of yourself as I do everyone else´s: finally one self is the better judge of one self by the mere oversupply of evidence, of data to do so: Judge oneself.
I have seen, and narrated how believing the mind is real when it is not, and using empathy based on Mental Disorder Labels, even proper as state of the art called "diagnoses" or "formulations", can lead to Radicalization, Fundamentalism and at least Verbal or otherwise Psychological Violence. It is a two parts writing, but here is the First:
Comparing the Radicalization process of in Jail Fundamentalists, Terrorists, with what I´ve experienced with Mental Neurodivergent Jihadists, respectfully said this is Hyperbole and Satire, I am confident it is the same process: Fundamentalism and Radicalization.
Such Neurodivergent Radicalization process includes Activists,Influencers such as Key Opinion Leaders or Actors/Actrices and the like, denigration, dehumanization, violence, indoctrination, isolation, puritanical non-religious thinking, etc.
And it leads to Alegal, Asocial, Amoral and Areligious ways of behaving, in at least these three original posts of mine I have argued why:
Basically my argument is believing the mind is a real thing when it is not, leads to the acceptance of Mental Disorders as a real true thing they cannot possibly be.
And by doing so, it replaces the Four Normative Systems which govern how Humans are supposed to behave with others: Law, Social Norms/Tradition, Morality and Religion.
And the more illustrative example is Trans Ideologies and Gender Dysphoria Labels or "Diagnoses", even if accepted as given or done appropriately per the State of the Art of those Mental Disorders:
Probably! Originally, I think it meant something very serious: somebody who had repeatedly sinned, been rejected by the community, been forgiven, and offended again. The implication was that now, when they asked for forgiveness, the person would no longer be taken as earnest – perhaps not even by God.
Claiming ADHD/ASD are excuses / made up / overdiagnosed / not diagnosed is both passe and extraordinarily offensive to conditions which are thoroughly evidence based and very tough to have diagnosed or treated in UK. Just gonna have to unsubscribe in disgust
That kind of overdramatic, overgeneralised reaction is exactly why I am right. I never said that ADHD was an excuse or “made up”. As for overdiagnosis: a few years ago I saw a shop window in a small town here which was literally advertising diagnoses like these, because they would help parents get special needs status for their kids. And “passé”? Seems like you’re making my point for me.
I am highly dubious that "Autism spectrum disorder' is a continuous spectrum or that its different components necessarily have all that much in comon with each other. The 'High Functioning Autism / Asbergers" individuals have been around for a very long time and have tended to all but dominate certain fields. This was true when I went into Physics / Engineering 50 years ago and from what I see, it is still true. It is my understanding that it was true well before my time. Yes, I was eventually diagnosed as an Aspie - as a side effect of the evaluation of my youngest daughter, but my extended family is full of probable aspies for generations. No, we are not well suited to high socialization, high extraversion activities, but our strengths match well with other valuable roles, so we do pretty well. The question is not if we are stock, standard social extraverts such as seems to be desired, but if we can find productive niches where our talents and aptitudes are well matched.
Just because somebody is different does not mean that they have a mental halth problem.
Well, respectfully, I respect your assessment of yourself as I do everyone else´s: finally one self is the better judge of one self by the mere oversupply of evidence, of data to do so: Judge oneself.
Being said, the Mind is not real:
https://federicosotodelalba.substack.com/p/beauty?r=4up0lp
I have seen, and narrated how believing the mind is real when it is not, and using empathy based on Mental Disorder Labels, even proper as state of the art called "diagnoses" or "formulations", can lead to Radicalization, Fundamentalism and at least Verbal or otherwise Psychological Violence. It is a two parts writing, but here is the First:
https://federicosotodelalba.substack.com/p/hey-my-haters-hear-me-out?r=4up0lp
Comparing the Radicalization process of in Jail Fundamentalists, Terrorists, with what I´ve experienced with Mental Neurodivergent Jihadists, respectfully said this is Hyperbole and Satire, I am confident it is the same process: Fundamentalism and Radicalization.
Such Neurodivergent Radicalization process includes Activists,Influencers such as Key Opinion Leaders or Actors/Actrices and the like, denigration, dehumanization, violence, indoctrination, isolation, puritanical non-religious thinking, etc.
And it leads to Alegal, Asocial, Amoral and Areligious ways of behaving, in at least these three original posts of mine I have argued why:
https://open.substack.com/pub/federicosotodelalba/p/a-comment-to-pathologizing-the-creative?r=4up0lp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
https://open.substack.com/pub/federicosotodelalba/p/a-comment-to-a-final-reason-to-never?r=4up0lp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
https://open.substack.com/pub/federicosotodelalba/p/comments-on-what-does-it-feel-like?r=4up0lp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Basically my argument is believing the mind is a real thing when it is not, leads to the acceptance of Mental Disorders as a real true thing they cannot possibly be.
And by doing so, it replaces the Four Normative Systems which govern how Humans are supposed to behave with others: Law, Social Norms/Tradition, Morality and Religion.
And the more illustrative example is Trans Ideologies and Gender Dysphoria Labels or "Diagnoses", even if accepted as given or done appropriately per the State of the Art of those Mental Disorders:
https://federicosotodelalba.substack.com/p/the-trans-world-reflects-what-is?r=4up0lp
Loved the comparison about outdated terms and what they meant to society. Was recently imagining what “lost soul” must really’ve used to imply.
My mum often called us things like “reprobate” affectionately (I suppose?)
Probably! Originally, I think it meant something very serious: somebody who had repeatedly sinned, been rejected by the community, been forgiven, and offended again. The implication was that now, when they asked for forgiveness, the person would no longer be taken as earnest – perhaps not even by God.
Claiming ADHD/ASD are excuses / made up / overdiagnosed / not diagnosed is both passe and extraordinarily offensive to conditions which are thoroughly evidence based and very tough to have diagnosed or treated in UK. Just gonna have to unsubscribe in disgust
That kind of overdramatic, overgeneralised reaction is exactly why I am right. I never said that ADHD was an excuse or “made up”. As for overdiagnosis: a few years ago I saw a shop window in a small town here which was literally advertising diagnoses like these, because they would help parents get special needs status for their kids. And “passé”? Seems like you’re making my point for me.