RE: Everyone has a mental disorder

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!