• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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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…

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      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

      Edit: clarified sentences

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            9 hours ago

            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.

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              8 hours ago

              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.