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hyperpape · **#21**

jts wrote:

I, on the contrary, think its a good thing. People in 2013 tend to agree that measles, asthma, and cleft palate are not signs of demonic possession or divine displeasure, and the afflicted no longer show any inclination to feign wellness; they go to a doctor and see if there isn't something that can be done help them. The more conditions for which this is true, the better.

Of the other hand, we're glad that people are no longer being sent to the doctor for (many) forms of non gender conforming behavior. There's a lot of subtle interplay between our ideas of what's good and our ideas of what needs psychological or psychiatric treatment.

As someone who shares similar concerns as Kirby, but was specifically rejected for diagnosis/treatment as having ADD 15 or so years ago, nothing he says raises my "hey, see a doctor" trigger, but just really sounds like an issue about self-control, so far as it's a problem at all. Tooveli is right that whether it's a problem in the first place depends on what you're talking about: work vs. hobbies vs. hobbies that you really want to achieve at.

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