I’m pleased to inform you that most people suffering from ASPD have in fact been victimised by the police, and that the politicians and billionaires you’re thinking of don’t have ASPD.
I know it can feel comforting to have some pseudoscientific explanation of which people are fundamentally good and which people are born evil. But there is no Jewish illuminati, there is no lizard people illuminati, and there is no neurodivergent illuminati. Extreme wealth turns people evil, regardless of what race, religion, or neurotype they were born with.
You just described being a bad person. Yes, billionaires are bad people. But being a bad person isn’t a mental disorder. That’s not what psychiatry is for.
The diagnosis of ASPD came from early psychiatrists working in insane asylums, describing patterns they saw in the patients. Wealthy politicians don’t get sent to mental institutions.
The diagnosis of ASPD was invented by doctors who wanted a model to help them improve the lives of their patients. You know, help them emotionally regulate so that they can function in society and get a job, instead of antagonising the police and being put in a prison. Wealthy politicians don’t need a doctor to help them with their people skills.
These harmful stereotypes about neurodivergent people happen when we start thinking like Batman writers. When we view mental disorders as a monster manual. Instead of what they really are, which is a model for helping people.
I’m pleased to inform you that most people suffering from ASPD have in fact been victimised by the police, and that the politicians and billionaires you’re thinking of don’t have ASPD.
I know it can feel comforting to have some pseudoscientific explanation of which people are fundamentally good and which people are born evil. But there is no Jewish illuminati, there is no lizard people illuminati, and there is no neurodivergent illuminati. Extreme wealth turns people evil, regardless of what race, religion, or neurotype they were born with.
maybe. but imo extreme wealth hoarding is usually only possible/successful by people with little empathy who exploit others around them
Yes and it is disorder for sure. Their brain is missing something crucial.
You just described being a bad person. Yes, billionaires are bad people. But being a bad person isn’t a mental disorder. That’s not what psychiatry is for.
The diagnosis of ASPD came from early psychiatrists working in insane asylums, describing patterns they saw in the patients. Wealthy politicians don’t get sent to mental institutions.
The diagnosis of ASPD was invented by doctors who wanted a model to help them improve the lives of their patients. You know, help them emotionally regulate so that they can function in society and get a job, instead of antagonising the police and being put in a prison. Wealthy politicians don’t need a doctor to help them with their people skills.
These harmful stereotypes about neurodivergent people happen when we start thinking like Batman writers. When we view mental disorders as a monster manual. Instead of what they really are, which is a model for helping people.
thanks, you’re right. using the term ASPD does indeed seem wrong and harmful in this case.