go away. you are a weirdo if you are reading this.
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don't talk about my mom like that.
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he's 80. he's just old and losing it and trying to stay relevant.
he is legit and was dope in the 90s/2000s, he has just started losing his mind due to being old.
sort of like trump and tariffs. those were suppose to solve my athlete's foot too.
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until the existing subtypes become distinct diagnoses and the number drops because now they are considered two distinct things where previously there was one. or they roll it together with a broad spectrum type of disorder.
our psychological classification systems are always moving around and modifying this stuff every decade or so. Asperger's is gone, for example.
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And if you confront them about it. they tell you how ignorant and wrong you are, because they can't possible be wrong because they are just so 'open-minded' if you can't see how open minded and correct they are, clearly you are a close-minded fool.
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right, only autistic people ever contributed to science or math or anything of social worth?
this is where you guys go off the rails. You know who also disproportionately contributed to the arts and sciences? Jewish people.
you know the other factor that most 'geniuses' had in common? they were from wealthy families.
rich jewish autistic folks are clearly the trifecta of pure geniuses, right?
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Yeah, normative skillsets and social roles and expectations are in constantly changing.
My BIL grew up hunting and farming but he can't ever talk about it anymore because people view negatively in his current social environment of professional urban liberals, who think it is considered psychopathic to hunt/kill/dress animals. He used to hunt, trap, skin, and all that to make money as a teenager. What was totally normal for him, is considered borderline criminal behavior to the people around him now.
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Yes. They self-identify with the brand and make it part of their identity. Or they inherent it from their families. My family is a Toyota family, for example. I broke ranks and got a Honda, an this was viewed as a 'betrayal', much in the same way left handedness was viewed as 'wrong'.
Yeah, sexuality is a choice. Part of that choice is to conform with social expectations, regardless of if you are gay, bi, or whatever. You very much can change your sexuality. People do it all the time. It's not some inherent immutable trait you are born with that persists forever. and people around you in our society get to agree or disagree with you. For example, I am straight, but plenty of women I have dated think I am gay because of my non-conformity with 'straight' male behaviors. Further, other points in my life, my lack of gayness was also used to mock, deride, and harass me because I was 'too straight'. So which one is it, am I gay, or am I straight?
Was I needless forced to struggle in my life because my parents were poor ignorant people, vs if they had been well-off and educated? According to some folks I've met, I should have never been born because only 'good' people should have children. By your style of thought, indeed, I should not exist, because if I had not been born to my parents, I'd have never had to struggle!
The only way for any of us to not 'needlessly struggle' is indeed, for us to not to have been born. Do you have kids? I have nephews, they had pretty open-minded and liberal parents. They are now young adults. Do you know what their complaint is? That their parents didn't oppress them enough, because if they had, they could have been so much more. They think their parents should have pushed them harder and beaten them into more social conformity so they could be more 'successful' in life and be popular and be cool, unlike being only average.
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Yes, you are so superior. Wow I am so dumb. I should just listen to you, you so smart.
It can't be that postmodern theory from 50 years ago is total naval gazing shit from pompous bourgeois academics types... who have enough money and power to sit around all day bitching about how oppressed they are and how much smarter they are than everyone else... weird how they dehumanize anyone who doesn't agree with their theorizing... just you do.
It can't be that you yourself, are the very thing you hate so much? Perhaps you, are the system of oppression and misery you so loathe? because instead of being a productive memory of your society, you see yourself as too elevated and sophisticated to participate in it in a meaningful or productive way that would measurable improve it?
it's to use violence to make it fair for you.
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Oh, and what social system of order and productivity do you think should take over that authority? communism? anarchism?
What is 'typical human life'?
Am i better off being beaten into submission and diagnosed and drugged by a communist expansionist dictatorship than a capitalist state of settler colonialism?
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You could also both be hallucinating.
Collective delusion/hallucination is a real thing. Often reinforced when like minded individuals form a tight social group that serves to isolate them from anyone who might challenged the hallucination, and who seek to reinforce it in each other.
Human beings are prone to mass hysteria because we are social animals, and our 'truth' about the world is largely a construct of our agreement with our peers. Psychological illness and behaviors, like anorexia, paranoia, etc. are transmissible psychological conditions. They are ideas in your head that eventually become the truth of your reality as they are reinforced by the ideas and realities of the people around you, and part of the drive to do that is for people to have their ideals/realities validated by others.
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You are being revisionist.
Lead was completely banned from gasoline in 1996. It's first phase outs began 1975. It took 20 year to remove it. Was the 'natural' state of car use, leaded or unleaded gasoline use? Why didn't we ban it outright completely in 1975 if it was so horrible?
Neither. It was just a social change based on the understanding of the negative effects of lead, which had not been previously known and became known and better understood over time.
There is no 'natural' state of things. There are just choices we make. Leaded gasoline persists in many parts of the world still. Just like many children are still being beaten into right handedness in other societies.
I seriously doubt anyone is 'liberated' by being able to be left handed or right handed anymore than are liberated by what car they buy. But they certainly do convince themselves, and are convinced by marketing, that that Jeep makes them cooler and more fun than that boring losers who don't drive Jeeps! I have met a few Jeep lovers who tell me my Honda means I am clearly oppressed, and I should get a Jeep like they drive and be liberated by the massive repair bills they come with.
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there isn't a clear consensus of any of this. it's all very fuzzy correlations.
there is the counter-argument too that these diagnoses are overdiagnosed, especially in boys, due to environmental/cultural changes in our expectations of their behaviors.
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upper middle class professionals are the class by which everything else is measured, yes. conformity with their expectations and behaviors are considered 'success' and anything less than or different is 'failure'.
But autism rates are higher among the middle and upper middle class... because they have the resources to diagnose and treat the difference. as a working-class person, i never ever heard of anything about autism or adhd or mental illness until I got to college in my working-class rural town, none of these ideas existed in day to day life or conversation. nobody had depression, anxiety, or any of that. and the freshman year college, all the sudden these terms became daily parts of my vocabulary. i never even really saw them on the internet for most of the 90s and 2000s.
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nobody is really wired to me one hand or the other, we can all learn to be ambidextrous. your are that way because you just feel more comfortable/experienced doing certain things with one hand than the other, it's a formation of neuromuscular habit.
it's just a matter of practice, but yes, as children the adults around us often DEMAND we be one or the other. just like they demand gendered behaviors, etc. And children conform because adults like conformity.
it's interesting as an adult, like getting coaching and having to re-learn basic bio mechanics you 'assume' are some sort of default, because well, nobody ever told/taught you you could/should be doing things differently. like there are different way to hold pens for different styles of writing...
not any different really when say, comes to language use and accents. you have a 'native' one you got from your upbringing, but you can unlearn it and a lot of people do because they won't gain social acceptance if they retain it. when I code switch to my 'native' speech... people freak out because it offends them because I'm supposed to sound smart and 'educated' , not like a stupid working-class hick. and of course, the first year i came back from college all my family/friends basically asked me why i was such a douchebag and talked so pretentiously...
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further than that, our cultural expectations of what is 'normal' have shifted drastically over the past two generations.
i'd argue that what once in the 'normal', is no longer, hence leading to greater need and identification of various differences where none were previously seen. Sort of like how you think all birds are the same, until you become a bird watcher, then you see every birth as different by species, and if you are a scientist studying a particular population of birds, you would gain the ability to identify them by their individual personalities and characteristics.
but I, as a lay person, have no idea wtf the difference between a sparrow and a chickadee is, they are just all brown/black bird blobs of a similar size that try to steal my food when I eat outside. they are just 'birds' to me. but for someone with a PhD in ornithology, they are two completely different things.
cool, that's not true near me. the airport here has a special tax that doubles the rental rates.
in my town a rental is like 75/day, at the airport it's 150 for the same car.
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yeah that's not how it works. you have more traction, more control, and more speed. it's superior.
but people just hate it because it's new and different.
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no, gravel and mountain bikes. it's for increased traction and rollover.
non luminous matter is a better term, but it doesn't sound as cool and mysterious.