Nobody bothers observing what the difference between insanity and madness is.
Insane: a subjective observation you make about another, they clearly have a self-consistent reasoning process with a metric that you don’t share. But communication and cooperation is still possible. Aka Neurodivergent
Mad: an objective observation that someone is illogical, goes against established and observable evidence, may harm self or others, aka nut case
I don’t need to read your argument because I came to the exact same conclusion. I just don’t think madness or insanity are useful terms for understanding psychology, nor is making a distinction between the two really worth the effort.
I don’t need to read your argument because I came to the exact same conclusion.
There is no argument to be had, then. You asked a question, I provided clarification
I just don’t think madness or insanity are useful terms for understanding psychology, nor is making a distinction between the two really worth the effort.
I vehemently disagree. If the distinction is not established then neurodivergents will keep on being misdiagnosed and fed drugs that may or may not work for them.
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They name the conditions by how they affect normal people, not how the conditions affect us.
Admittedly, I literally told off a priest and a cop at completely different times in the same day, when I was 5…
Nobody bothers observing what the difference between insanity and madness is.
Insane: a subjective observation you make about another, they clearly have a self-consistent reasoning process with a metric that you don’t share. But communication and cooperation is still possible. Aka Neurodivergent
Mad: an objective observation that someone is illogical, goes against established and observable evidence, may harm self or others, aka nut case
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bestie, wtf are you talking about?
Neurodivergence as a concept and how academic psychology perceives it. Everything is a disorder if it doesn’t fit the neurotypical mould.
Here’s my argument from Mastodon regarding this: https://mastodon.social/@voodooattack/116564124322479196
I don’t need to read your argument because I came to the exact same conclusion. I just don’t think madness or insanity are useful terms for understanding psychology, nor is making a distinction between the two really worth the effort.
There is no argument to be had, then. You asked a question, I provided clarification
I vehemently disagree. If the distinction is not established then neurodivergents will keep on being misdiagnosed and fed drugs that may or may not work for them.
Anything that is not a cis white guy who wants to march waving a big national flag is a disorder.