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RE: Everyone has a mental disorder

last week

THANK YOU for this!
Have you read Frederik deBoer's latest book? He addresses this subject - very boldly - and got some angry one-star reviews as a result. He makes a good point, though.
Many self-diagnosed neurodivergents are wasting scarce resources needed by the severely ill.
One book reviewer at NetGalley agrees with deBoer aboutu DID fakers, people on TikTok pathologizing things like "getting a song stuck in your head" or "labelling the spice drawer" as being a sign that you're soooo neurospicy,

..... and this weird insistence that no one who's disabled actually wants their disability gone (all I heard for YEARS in the fiction writing space is to NEVER EVER EVER cure a disabled character and WATCH IT if the character feels at all negative towards their disability), .... people who are "neurotypical" by any standard demanding accomodations (or attention) for what are essentially personality traits.

My own review had to leave out all those things - he just covers too much ground in one book, and I really did spend months thinking about all his comments and all the news stories (Lindsay Clancy for one) that tied in with the book.

Thanks again for you perspective on this.
I think you'd appreciate ALL IN YOUR HEAD. Maybe try your local library?

https://hive.blog/hive-180164/@carolkean/all-in-your-head-freddie-deboer-s-book-is-a-must-read

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@abeegail61

last week

Oh my, thank you so much.
I had to talk about this because it's slowly turning to a pandemic.
I really do appreciate the book recommendation, and I'll try to get it

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@carolkean68

last week

Thank YOU, @abeegail, for daring to speak up!
If you can't find the book at your library, try reading his Substack - (profanity his, not mine, and I gave up trying to censor it in case the F word is banned at Hive):

Pub Week: F^cked Up People Are F^cked Up | idealizing the mentally ill is a way to erase them

There is so much devastation, out there, if you find yourself in the position where you’re forced to look. There is so much loss. There are so many people who never really had a chance. And, yes, I think it’s deeply, deeply disordered (to pick a word) that so much of our disability discourse is about the least afflicted, the least in need, the least fucked up. I think in fact that this dynamic is often disgusting. In so many cases - your Ivy League “neurodiversity activists,” your bored white collar workers who think that ADHD is a superpower and that they’re an oppressed class ...
We’re living in a period of time where our culture is largely written by a modern aristocracy, the hyper-educated, culturally-savvy, perpetually-anxious strivers, the front-of-class kids, the tryhards. Though achieving that status is no guarantee of any particular material outcome, and though there are some who enjoy it who never achieve affluence, that class is as a whole among the most obviously and materially privileged in the history of our species. They enjoy an unprecedented bounty of monetary and technological and cultural and social wealth, and they collectively define what it means to be enviable in our modern culture, though plenty of us rush to insist that there’s anything to envy. These are the modern American magi. And yet a core, clear lesson of the 21st century is that, for them, the affordances of contemporary urbanite flourishing are not enough. Being smarter than everyone else is not enough. Being more stylish than everyone else is not enough. Being more cultured than everyone else is not enough. Complaining about everything that they don’t have even as they have more than almost everyone is not enough. They need to be morally superior as well; they need to be good. And the product of this deep, grinding, anxious need to be good is what we might call 21st century politics.

Older posts tackle the same issues - https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/

You can read substack blogs without being a paid subscriber.
Every blogger wants $50 a year - there are just TOO MANY BLOGGERS - so I pick and choose.

Thanks again for weighing in on this!

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