Once upon a time, people got to be eccentric. Now they're just "sick". We've become so quick to catagorize and label that we're shrinking the spectrum of behavior down to a very narrow band of "normal" rather than the whole beautiful range, rather like saying that everyone who doesn't look like a model or actress is somehow not OK.
And, with the exception of Antisocial Personality d/o as you've mentioned, the idea that a disorder is something that causes people concern is something that is often overlooked. I always try to emphasize that the criteria are what is out of the ordinary for that particular person, not some immaginary yardstick of what "normal" looks like.
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Date: 2010-11-12 04:13 am (UTC)Once upon a time, people got to be eccentric. Now they're just "sick". We've become so quick to catagorize and label that we're shrinking the spectrum of behavior down to a very narrow band of "normal" rather than the whole beautiful range, rather like saying that everyone who doesn't look like a model or actress is somehow not OK.
And, with the exception of Antisocial Personality d/o as you've mentioned, the idea that a disorder is something that causes people concern is something that is often overlooked. I always try to emphasize that the criteria are what is out of the ordinary for that particular person, not some immaginary yardstick of what "normal" looks like.