I appreciate that he faces up to being bipolar rather than being fashionably autistic or pill-seeking ADHD.
koolala•3h ago
The main thing I'm seeing on front pages the last 2 weeks is sport spectator witch hunting because its televised.
serf•1h ago
>fashionably autistic or pill-seeking ADHD.
I have a hard time reading that charitably.
Are mental illnesses going to start being 'in-season'/'faux-pas' ?
PaulHoule•1h ago
Adhd will always be in season because it is a license to pill. Had Lezengreber won over Claridge we would have #SurelySchizotypal instead of #ActuallyAustistic but schizotypy will never graduate from 'more research is needed'. Schizophrenia might have been fashionable from 1940-1980 but it is hard to idealize after Reagan set them free. Anyway this is what Freddie writes about, he explains it much better than me because he's sick
... she has apparently recently received a vanity diagnosis of
“ADHD and PTSD.” (This is a whole thing among more affluent
patients with bipolar disorder, recently; I will just say again
that there is no such thing as an ex-bipolar person.)
The "neurodivergence movement" has captured a lot of people who are fleeing the stigma of severe mental illness note least the reality that at least 5% of people are on the schizophrenia spectrum and undiagnosed.
As for why I feel this way I got what was a very good psychiatric eval for a child 45 or so years ago. Today I can mark up the first paragraph with a highlighter and practically all of it is diagnostic of my condition but it was a pure headscratcher back then. I think it still is today and "ADHD" and "Autism" are fashionable differential diagnoses that obscure schizotaxia.
It doesn't help that there is so much emotional attachment to the construct of autism that a paper like this
PaulHoule•3h ago
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/
I appreciate that he faces up to being bipolar rather than being fashionably autistic or pill-seeking ADHD.
koolala•3h ago
serf•1h ago
I have a hard time reading that charitably. Are mental illnesses going to start being 'in-season'/'faux-pas' ?
PaulHoule•1h ago
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/sick-people-are-sick
To quote:
See also his take on Kanye West here:https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/things-that-are-hard
The "neurodivergence movement" has captured a lot of people who are fleeing the stigma of severe mental illness note least the reality that at least 5% of people are on the schizophrenia spectrum and undiagnosed.
As for why I feel this way I got what was a very good psychiatric eval for a child 45 or so years ago. Today I can mark up the first paragraph with a highlighter and practically all of it is diagnostic of my condition but it was a pure headscratcher back then. I think it still is today and "ADHD" and "Autism" are fashionable differential diagnoses that obscure schizotaxia.
It doesn't help that there is so much emotional attachment to the construct of autism that a paper like this
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/07/09/major-autism-study...
that I read as saying "34%-90% of autistic people aren't actually autistic" stay firmly in the autism-affirming camp.
https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/10/theres-no-autism-epidemi...