I don’t think you know anything about psychiatry, seeing as you’re using the name of a fake disorder. Sociopathy isn’t really in the DSM, it’s not a mental disorder. It’s fake. You’ve been hoodwinked. It’s just Greek for socially ill person. You know, like autism. So forgive me for thinking you don’t know what you’re talking about when you say Trump has autism.
Ohhhhhhh. Okay, I understand now. You were using a controversial slur to refer to a disorder whose actual name you full well know. Sorry, I was giving you the benefit of the doubt and starting from the assumption you didn’t hate disabled people. I understand now.
You were using a controversial slur to refer to a disorder whose actual name you full well know.
Don’t worry, much like sociopathy the current term will eventually also become a slur and need to be renamed again. This is the way of such things - so long as the thing is seen as something negative, the term for being/having that thing will take on a negative connotation over time. Several rounds of this is why the language has become so wordy and bloodless - if it’s enough of a pain to repeat in full every time it takes longer for it to become a slur.
Maybe words for disorders wouldn’t turn into slurs if people like you didn’t insist on stigmatising disorders by diagnosing evil public figures with them.
Why don’t you whip out the ol DSM and read about antisocial personality disorder? Call it psychopathy, or sociopathy, or APD. A rose by any other name.
They said it? Out loud? With their mouth? Funny how it got on your screen, then.
Oh, no, they typed it, which is different. But somehow not a problem because words can mean multiple things. And you know what someone is saying about The Idiot’s visible personality disorder, as surely as I know you didn’t think they made that comment through dictation.
Trump doesn’t have a visible disability, he’s a privileged neurotypical asshole. Why is it so hard for you to accept that Trump is a member of the oppressor class in this issue?
Pretending people with issues can’t also be monsters is a form of bigotry. Nothing in reality is a clean binary. The Idiot is history’s most obvious example of narcissism… and people bend over backwards to deny it.
The man’s own lawyers couldn’t be in a room with him, alone, because he is physically incapable of keeping a story straight.
Everyone who’s ever known him has come away ranting about what a fucking toddler he is.
The problem is that you haven’t once described Trump fulfilling a diagnostic criterion for NPD. You’ve just listed a random hodgepodge of negative traits. The diagnosis of NPD does not label someone “asshole”. It labels someone “patient”. In order to prove that Trump has NPD, you would need, instead of just listing bad traits, to explain how he is caused distress and social impairment by a pattern of symptoms that align with the 9 criteria and how he could benefit from medical treatment. And when I say “benefit”, I don’t mean “become a nicer person”, I mean “feel better and have fewer problems functioning”. The diagnostic criteria do not exist as objective standards, they exist as subjective standards in relation to the patient and their goals and needs. Trump needs to be suffering in order to get a diagnosis. You have to prove he’s suffering. And he’s not, he’s not suffering, he’s not impaired, he’s not disabled, he’s not neurodivergent, he’s just an asshole.
Okay cool, so anyone bipolar insisting there’s nothing wrong with them because they’re riding a manic episode all the way to the shitting stars must not be suffering in any way. Observing their behavior and going “hey I think that guy’s having a manic episode” is an abuse, actually, because how could anyone - in that moment! - prove it would be better for them personally?
I say this with two bipolar musicians in mind: Kanye West and Rob Scallon. Rob’s a decent guy who went through some weird shit. He eventually accepted that everyone around him identified the shit he was going through. He’s on better drugs now and hopes it won’t be an issue. Kanye is a complete fucking asshole, in ways obviously made massively worse by the negative traits associated with his painfully visible personality disorder. He chased off everyone who’s tried to help him. He will probably never seek medication again. Would his various financial and relationship troubles count as “suffering” in spite of that? Because The Idiot’s committed a shitload of crimes associated with the egotistical and transactional nature of clinical narcissism. Ask his third wife if he had emotional problems, and if her hair ever grew back where he ripped it out.
Being an asshole and having brain problems are not mutually exclusive. Either can make the other a lot worse… for everyone.
Neurotypical? He’s a narcissist at best, and a full-blown sociopath at worst.
I don’t think you know anything about psychiatry, seeing as you’re using the name of a fake disorder. Sociopathy isn’t really in the DSM, it’s not a mental disorder. It’s fake. You’ve been hoodwinked. It’s just Greek for socially ill person. You know, like autism. So forgive me for thinking you don’t know what you’re talking about when you say Trump has autism.
Wow, you’re so clever you couldn’t even go to wiki for one second. Sociopathy is, in fact, real and refers to Antisocial Personality Disorder.
Ohhhhhhh. Okay, I understand now. You were using a controversial slur to refer to a disorder whose actual name you full well know. Sorry, I was giving you the benefit of the doubt and starting from the assumption you didn’t hate disabled people. I understand now.
Don’t worry, much like sociopathy the current term will eventually also become a slur and need to be renamed again. This is the way of such things - so long as the thing is seen as something negative, the term for being/having that thing will take on a negative connotation over time. Several rounds of this is why the language has become so wordy and bloodless - if it’s enough of a pain to repeat in full every time it takes longer for it to become a slur.
Maybe words for disorders wouldn’t turn into slurs if people like you didn’t insist on stigmatising disorders by diagnosing evil public figures with them.
Why don’t you whip out the ol DSM and read about antisocial personality disorder? Call it psychopathy, or sociopathy, or APD. A rose by any other name.
I’m not going to do that, because I don’t call disabilities by slurs. I typically use the actual names of the disabilities instead.
That’s not what they said and you fucking know it.
Stop making up the argument you’d rather be having.
It’s not what they meant, but it’s what they said. They failed to say what they mean because they don’t know what they’re talking about.
They said it? Out loud? With their mouth? Funny how it got on your screen, then.
Oh, no, they typed it, which is different. But somehow not a problem because words can mean multiple things. And you know what someone is saying about The Idiot’s visible personality disorder, as surely as I know you didn’t think they made that comment through dictation.
Trump doesn’t have a visible disability, he’s a privileged neurotypical asshole. Why is it so hard for you to accept that Trump is a member of the oppressor class in this issue?
Pretending people with issues can’t also be monsters is a form of bigotry. Nothing in reality is a clean binary. The Idiot is history’s most obvious example of narcissism… and people bend over backwards to deny it.
The man’s own lawyers couldn’t be in a room with him, alone, because he is physically incapable of keeping a story straight.
Everyone who’s ever known him has come away ranting about what a fucking toddler he is.
Take a goddamn hint.
The problem is that you haven’t once described Trump fulfilling a diagnostic criterion for NPD. You’ve just listed a random hodgepodge of negative traits. The diagnosis of NPD does not label someone “asshole”. It labels someone “patient”. In order to prove that Trump has NPD, you would need, instead of just listing bad traits, to explain how he is caused distress and social impairment by a pattern of symptoms that align with the 9 criteria and how he could benefit from medical treatment. And when I say “benefit”, I don’t mean “become a nicer person”, I mean “feel better and have fewer problems functioning”. The diagnostic criteria do not exist as objective standards, they exist as subjective standards in relation to the patient and their goals and needs. Trump needs to be suffering in order to get a diagnosis. You have to prove he’s suffering. And he’s not, he’s not suffering, he’s not impaired, he’s not disabled, he’s not neurodivergent, he’s just an asshole.
Okay cool, so anyone bipolar insisting there’s nothing wrong with them because they’re riding a manic episode all the way to the shitting stars must not be suffering in any way. Observing their behavior and going “hey I think that guy’s having a manic episode” is an abuse, actually, because how could anyone - in that moment! - prove it would be better for them personally?
I say this with two bipolar musicians in mind: Kanye West and Rob Scallon. Rob’s a decent guy who went through some weird shit. He eventually accepted that everyone around him identified the shit he was going through. He’s on better drugs now and hopes it won’t be an issue. Kanye is a complete fucking asshole, in ways obviously made massively worse by the negative traits associated with his painfully visible personality disorder. He chased off everyone who’s tried to help him. He will probably never seek medication again. Would his various financial and relationship troubles count as “suffering” in spite of that? Because The Idiot’s committed a shitload of crimes associated with the egotistical and transactional nature of clinical narcissism. Ask his third wife if he had emotional problems, and if her hair ever grew back where he ripped it out.
Being an asshole and having brain problems are not mutually exclusive. Either can make the other a lot worse… for everyone.