Interests, Passions, Obsessions & Aspies.

Clearly mapping out pathology is related to "the norm"... majority rules.

How is it objective to judge what someones problems is, if we cannot view it in a vacuum?

I'm quite sure that if I didn't get the Aspie label, I'd be diagnosed with a plethora of other disorders including OCD. And why is that? Clearly because I do not fit the norm with whatever interest I take to a new level.

It's a cultural thing as well I guess. But still, even cultural means are no way to create a vacuum.

On the other hand if there was no "deviant" behaviour, nothing would look out of place and no one was "weird". It was perfectly normal to kill people, steal, lie and be a shut in. I don't know how society would benefit from that either. The world clearly needs diagnostics to see problems in the world, but it's silly if we judge human behaviour in a specific environment and not on an objective scale.

In a way the entire scale in terms of seeing disorders might be difficult.

Quite a few neurological disorders aren't neccesarily proven by deficits in the body, merely by deficits in "behaviour". And to be honest, if behaviour is a measure... meh... I can act all I want.

When I saw therapists, they asked me "do you feel depressed?" for them it was clear whenever I said yes. Surely, they looked into it a bit further, but if, on certain scales you say yes to all of it (without even reading the question), you'll pass the test in all it's glory.

And if you're wondering why people would "cheat" a test... it's because apparently benefits are not equally spread over if you're "healthy" or "sick". I feel that's a reason why people might put op a game of charades.

Sometimes I wonder if we as the global population even know enough about science (and in this specific case, psychology and all subdivisions in it), to actually judge to what's "wrong" and "right". In the long run I feel it's neverending journey. A good example would be that Aspergers as an official diagnosis exists for what... 18 years? (1994 if I'm right), yet we A. don't know exactly how to offer suitable support and B. we don't even know how to diagnose everyone correctly. But still we, as aspies (but you can substitute this with every other group among disorders), are expected to function like "normal", just because they don't have a solution. Yes, it's difficult to expect everything to be there all at once, that takes time, but by all means, do not oppose rules and regulations on people if you only know half of it in terms of cause, long-term effects, opportunities in life, common co-morbid disorders and how it affects it, etc.