I identify with this unironically as a low conscientiousness male feminist.

I’m of the opposite position. A disorder is a medical diagnosis that is treated by medical professionals. Making diagnosises into social categories is what I’m absolutely against because it conflates what a diagnosis is. I don’t want to see the normal spectrum of human functioning and coping to be medicalized. I want people to feel secure in finding their best way to function outside of a medical context if appropriate. That was frankly the problem with having homosexuality as a disorder in the DSM. It was pathologized inappropriately.

Its dangerous and harmful because it leads to inappropriate interventions. Every intervention has a different profile of what harm it could cause. And sure it’s a problem if medical professionals don’t listen to people. But it’s equally a problem to attempt to pathologize something that coping mechanisms and therapy could alleviate. I’m specifically using subjective language here because it IS subjective. Every individual case is different and I don’t have a particular opinion on yours or the author of this tweet. This tweet just reminded me (as it did with many other posters that didn’t quite get the response I did) that pathologizing everything is also a challenge. You don’t need to treat things that don’t cause problems, essentially. It seemed to me to be a pretty uncontroversial position.

Yeah, but see, that’s not at all what I was doing. And that’s why what you’re saying is completely off base. The core of my position is that medicalizing subclinical symptoms is dangerous and harmful. I believe an individualized holistic approach should be made instead of trying to force a medical diagnosis that cannot fit. Your objections are actually my objections believe it or not! We both want a holistic approach! You just are jumping wild conclusions and what I mean.

I honestly don’t even know what you’re trying argue with me about at this point. Do you hold the position that a subclinical set of symptoms is a disorder? Because that’s what I disagree with. If not, then what exactly is at issue beyond your imagination of my position?

What a long winded way to rephrase what I just said I wasn’t doing. I was making the point that if you don’t have clinically significant symptoms you don’t have a disorder. That’s it. Every other point you’ve made us a wild supposition.

Difficulty or inability. I’m not claiming to be a doctor and I’m not making an outlandish statement. People are acting like I’m making a value judgement on them or their lived experiences when I’m not. They sure are making wild assumptions about what I mean though.

You can and should use nonmedicalized strategies for something that’s subclinical. That was my point. A disorder is a medical diagnosis.

I’m neither a diagnostician nor a provider and I don’t pretend to be one. I’m just a nurse. That’s one of many things people seem to ascribe to me. I will say however, something needs to be disabling for it to be a disability.

Doesn’t stop you from adding modified corn starch to it until it’s a weak tomato pudding/gravy. Wait, that’s what they already do. High quality ketchup was originally a jam (reduction of tomato fruit).

Lactose intolerance is actually a very good example. The level of lactase production varies significantly among the population. Different people will find different amounts of lactose as interfering with their ADLs. There’s generally a point where too much milk or cheese will cause you to have gas and visit the bathroom within an hour. This is called clinical significance. If they don’t have enough clinical significance, it’s pointless to diagnose them with lactose intolerance.

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That’s about idols. When he’s saying do not fear or respect them because all they are is wood a man cut out of the forest and dressed with silver and gold, he’s saying the idols are mundane. They’re powerless creations made by man that cannot walk around without a man walking them around.

I don’t even need a damn study. I snore loudly, wake up often if I don’t sleep on my side, and am overweight. I have OSA. There’s no real need for further diagnostics.

Him, Luigi, and the Wire are the gifts Baltimore has bestowed on the states.

Edit: holy shit this works as an embedded video?!?

Reminds me of a song. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S7pbLArOCFE

Realize that’s she’s a US house member, not a state legislature member. They were trying to defund the EPA in general by reducing salaries for individuals to $1 and it wasn’t just Texas.

Both have epicanthal folds/monolids. It’s harder to tell with the AI trump because he’s squinting.