• mindbleach
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    4 months ago

    Not fundamentally, but practically often yes.

    Then I don’t care what you mean when you bicker about these words.

    You can’t freely bounce between hyperfixation on internal state (like whether a bipolar person after a visible manic episode might want to kill themselves during the predictable depressive slump) and how cushy life is toward people having these brain problems.

    He is thinking exactly the way society expects him to.

    He’s a career criminal who recently survived an assassination attempt presumably related to his failed coup d’etat.

    And he has visible brain problems. He’s a moron and an asshole in very specific and predictable ways, for which we have labels. Some of them are clinically relevant - some of them are just clear shorthand for common problems.

    ‘We expect rich people to act like they have a personality disorder’ is not the tut you think it is.