Excuse the ignorance, what’s the difference?
pissed at him for being too narcissistic to shut up and let the movement die.
You’ve got a typo there. What you meant to write was “pissed at him for struggling with managing the symptoms from his narcissistic personality disorder diagnosis too much to shut up and let the movement die.”
el_abuelo@programming.dev 4 days ago
Genius@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Putting the focus on the personal struggle of managing the symptoms is more empathetic, and using the full name of the diagnosis instead of contracted nouns helps avoid using slurs and/or dehumanising the patent.
Dremor@lemmy.world 3 days ago
and using the full name of the diagnosis instead of contracted nouns helps avoid using slurs and/or dehumanising the patent.
You got a typo there. Unless you can prove that said person was indeed diagnosed with such disability by an appropriate medical authority, let’s not use such term that could either be considered defamation, or at least medical disinformation.
People say what they intend to say, not what you wish them to. If you believe they are incorrect, no need to be pedantic about it. Just argue why, you’d find out people are way more open to arguments when they do not feel like you are condidering them as idiots.
Genius@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I don’t think he has NPD at all, I think Rakonat is mistaken to randomly accuse him of mental illness just because they don’t like him.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Narcissists are literally destroying our planet and our way of life, but let’s make sure we don’t offend anyone when we mention them.
Genius@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Your comment has a typo. You meant to write “human beings who developed narcissistic personality disorder due to childhood trauma and now struggle with identity and empathy to the detriment of their own wellbeing as described in the DSM 5 are literally destroying our planet and our way of life”
Smoogs@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Oh go Piss off, Elon
Genius@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
You’re saying Elon Musk is an ally to disabled people?? Are you part of the Nazi cult?
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 days ago
Does he actually have a diagnosis or are you making that up or assuming things?
Genius@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
He probably doesn’t, and Rakonat shouldn’t have assumed
tomi000@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
While I am against using illnesses as slurs, I am 99% sure Elon Musk has NPD even if was never officially diagnosed, which he would avoid for obvious reasons. So I wouldnt count this instance as using an illness as a slur.
Genius@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
If he does have NPD, then we’re back to the issue that the general population needs to start referring to mental disorders with respectful and empathetic language, because this creates a culture of tolerance that will be visible to other people with the disorder.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You know hes using a figure of speech right? Are you protesting the usage of narcissism as an unofficial negative descriptor?
Genius@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Yes. Just like “retard” and “gay”.
Skankboot@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
You know that someone can act like something without being that thing right? You can say someone is narcissistic without them being an actual narcissist.
Like me saying that you’re stupid shouldn’t imply that you’ve had a traumatic brain injury or were born without a frontal lobe.
Genius@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
That’s a false equivalence. “Stupid” isn’t the same as any of the words in the diagnosis “mental retardation” (recently updated to intellectual disability). Your example would work better if you did it like this:
There, that’s a much closer analogy. Do you still stand by your point if we use a proper equivalence?
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Are you trying to roleplay as your username?