The problem is not that people are over-identifying.
The problem is that the map is so badly drawn that cognition, distress, adaptation, trauma, personality, culture, communication and access needs all get collapsed into pathology.
The benchmark is too narrow — and then it calls itself normal.
Right. The DSM is a map drawn to include all of us, but it didn't guarantee understanding, accommodation, or support. The result is a diagnostic framework that fails all of us.
The problem is not that people are over-identifying.
The problem is that the map is so badly drawn that cognition, distress, adaptation, trauma, personality, culture, communication and access needs all get collapsed into pathology.
The benchmark is too narrow — and then it calls itself normal.
Right. The DSM is a map drawn to include all of us, but it didn't guarantee understanding, accommodation, or support. The result is a diagnostic framework that fails all of us.
I couldn’t agree more. I am genuinely happy that the voices are rising