using my first real 'reply guy' moment on BlueSky for this: I met my wife on Tumblr in 2013 and didn't tell my parents until the week before the wedding

It doesn't mean that your suffering is not real or that you should be able to snap out of it.

They are conditions that should be taken seriously as they are so often debilitating. It is doing people a disservice to not push for better understanding of that.

One last thing - this is separate to the above I think people really REALLY hate the idea that their condition could be psychosomatic as that sounds dismissive. But I think it's important to have open conversations about how real and destructive conditions can be even without biological cause.

We also talked about harm - her argument that diagnosis is harming people is not one I always agree with. But I think it's important to note that her position is not a reactionary one. It's one arrived at with immense empathy and care for people.

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When we spoke we talked explicitly about this idea of what 'counts' as mild. I know many people at various points on the spectrum.

She is not saying they are not suffering or indeed do not have ADHD/autism etc etc. In our follow up chat
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Even this headline, I know, is jarring. But she is not denying a) that more people are suffering than ever
b) that the system as is is leaving people without the support they need
c) that these conditions across the spectrum are debilitating

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