Re:Mother's blood test predicts a sub-type of autism
by Blikkentrekker on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:14PM
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There are a great many psychiatric disorders that highly correlate with the arbitrary definitions of success used to justify that those that correlate negatively are to be called “disorders”.
It's not even about success in society; it's simply about whether the psychiatric authority considers it undesirable, and in want of eradication.
Drapetomania even existed, which had nothing to do with success. The authority simply considered it undesirable that slaves fled.
Many behaviors that correlate very negatively with success are not considered mental disorders, for they the authority considers them desirable.
And of course, it's an entirely circular argument. There are also some disorders that correlate very negatively with success and thus called disorders, but the disorder is more or less “not caring about success”. — there are disorders characterized by the subject's indifference how he is socially perceived.
Yes, pretty much all of modern psychiatric diagnosis are explicitly diagnosing a combination of inability to succeed in the concrete social conditions one finds oneself in combined with concurrent behavioral or other symptoms, not “biological flaws”. (Which, incidentally, would also be subjective judgments; biological features are objective, that an objective feature is a flaw is a subjective judgement call.)