I have a parallel issue with people who say they "have" something. They "have" depression (more often than not, neuroses). They "have" anxiety. No, "you are [depressed]". It's not an alien inside of you. It's you. Sounds petty, and maybe it is irrelevant, but language is important and that type of language helps take a certain responsibility off of them.
Yes, this, very much this. We've been caught in a disturbing, escalating trend, of trying to capture more and more rather bog-standard human diversity of behavior, as pathology. All of this gender-confusion garbage is a wing of this trend. You've got 16-year-olds talking about their "PTSD" like they did 2 tours in Vietnam. As must happen, the creation of all these "problems" has given rise to the increasingly omnipresent administrative medical State.
I have a parallel issue with people who say they "have" something. They "have" depression (more often than not, neuroses). They "have" anxiety. No, "you are [depressed]". It's not an alien inside of you. It's you. Sounds petty, and maybe it is irrelevant, but language is important and that type of language helps take a certain responsibility off of them.
Yes, this, very much this. We've been caught in a disturbing, escalating trend, of trying to capture more and more rather bog-standard human diversity of behavior, as pathology. All of this gender-confusion garbage is a wing of this trend. You've got 16-year-olds talking about their "PTSD" like they did 2 tours in Vietnam. As must happen, the creation of all these "problems" has given rise to the increasingly omnipresent administrative medical State.