Didn’t want to say it, but it sure seems trendy to me. Quick example from my daughter:
She had zero issues with eye contact until very recently. She reads memes telling her eye contact is a problem for people like her. Now she has problem.
I am NOT saying that issue is fake, but when a child is constantly bombarded with, “This is how you are!”, they become that way.
Part of my thoughts in the OP are, “We’re making normal behavior out to be abnormal and slapping a label on it. And perhaps we’re making it worse than need be.”
My mother constantly told me I was sickly as a child, and I was constantly sick. First year of college (without her influence) was my first year without a single illness, not even a mild cold. Miracle! Wait…
Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 days ago
Whoever told you a diagnosis is an excuse to not work on yourself? What do you think therapy is?
6nk06@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
There is no need for work or therapy with self-diagnosis.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 days ago
I’m going to go put on a limb and say the majority of people would rather get an official diagnosis and subsequent treatment including therapy but because of how Everything Is, they can’t. Self-diagnosis, in mist cases, is a last resort in the face of a desperate need to understand what is “wrong”.