Or maybe it's time to understand that mental issues aren't as clearcut as viruses that you can test in a lab. As long as we don't understand the fine grain of how the whole brain work (and so far we only have ideas about it, not the whole story), the yes/no diagnostic will stay a dead end imo.

Sorry to hear you have trouble though, I hope you still lives ok <3 good luck!

[–] Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

While it's a lovely notion that maybe one day we might live in a world that doesn't otherize and pathologize the way the minds of neurodivergent people function. Or that maybe one day the whole of society might not be organized around the convenience and function of neurotypical people and I would love for either of those would either of those to be the case. The fact of the matter is that this is not the world we currently live in. So if someone with ADHD or Autism wanted support from this society in the form of say medication, or therapy, then in most cases they would need to still engage with that system that pathologizes the way their minds work and acquire a diagnosis.

So what good does it do to come into a conversation about the flaws in that diagnostic process and essentially just say "Well, maybe it shouldn't be like that." as if anyone here is in any position to just wave a magic wand and change the diagnostic criteria in the next edition of the DSM?

[–] toad@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah if you wanna go to work, just sit on the back of the bus, grandma

[–] Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what you're saying here.

[–] toad@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That with that kind of defeatism the US would still live under jim crow laws.

[–] Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ah so you're LARPing as a civil rights activist, got it.

You do realize that this right here isn't "activism" right? That in reality I'm doing more activism by giving someone advice on how to navigate the world as it currently exists than you are by pretending that saying "Things should be better than they are" on a random ADHD Meme community is "activism" in any real sense of the word.

[–] toad@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

Maybe we could give benzos to women so they can bare their shitty housewife life.

Ah wait, we're already doing that lmao

[–] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Apparently DSM6 is giving up on naming disorders and will instead name only the traits. So instead of being diagnosed as autistic and ADHD you'll be diagnosed with Hyperfocus, Executive Disfunction, Maladaptive Daydreaming and stuff like that...