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  • Thanks for answering.

    Just to clarify: I don’t think the DSM-V is wrong and I think it is an excellent source.

    But if the DSM-V says that „…can’t be diagnosed while autism…“ does sound like the adhd/autism thing and this is what I think gets people worked up.

    That also may be the reason why someone said you treat it like the „bible“ which is a metaphor for using it too strictly as in „the dsm-v has been wrong before and only represents todays knowledge and could be changed tomorrow. Dont use it as sole reference“.

    And as I said as well, you did reference the minimum timespan which is afaik not the way autistics experience this kind of thing. So they really only don’t like the „you cant say selective mutism because dsmv says not autism“ thing.

    Sorry for repeating the same thing but I wanted to get the angle right to reduce misunderstandings. I hope I did a decent job.
















  • Yes, that is correct. People „should“. As they „should drive more carefully“, „smoke less“, „eat healthy“, „consume thoughtfully“ and so on.

    We both know this is why we have the rule of law. People are not and will never be fully self governing as long as we have the system we do. We are much too stressed to make the right decisions every time. We used to be able to drive without a seatbelt on, to take cocaine whenever we wanted. Didn’t work very well. It’s simple psychology. Some of us govern themselves mostly well, others dont. That doesn’t mean they can be held responsible for their inability to do so. They need to helped with measures to keep harm away.


  • so none of the bystanders should help them either

    I don’t understand this. Telling someone to vote with their wallet is not helping. The equivalent would be that a victim was „told“ to defend themselves. I am saying we shouldn’t put the responsibility on the victim but the aggressor.

    just like with most things in life

    That I can agree to. Taking action is hard. But I would say that it is easy to broadly judge „most people“ while this very article says that in the case of social media, the boomers‘ blame for example seems to be ill aligned. Not the people are to blame but the mechanics.