Thread by @EbThen, So I'm just saying but if you're a true crime podcast host [...]

EbThen

So I& #39;m just saying but if you& #39;re a true crime podcast host and you talk about psychopathy as though it& #39;s something someone can "have" like it& #39;s a legit mental illness diagnosis OR you conflate psychopathy with sociopathy with ASPD...

yeah you lose credibility with me.

Something new followers should know about me is

a. I don& #39;t accept psychopathy or sociopathy as legit things. Mainly because they aren& #39;t.

They& #39;re basically things forensic criminologists came up with to explain away harm done by white cis men—like them.

b. I& #39;m not confused about the way Cluster B personality disorders (like ASPD) are often used as catch-all "punishment" diagnoses.

Or the way people with those diagnoses are treated as innately harmful or dangerous or less worthy.

I will fight you for that shit.

c. When people do armchair diagnosis of psychiatric diagnoses in an attempt to discredit folks or explain someone& #39;s harmful behavior, it& #39;s really obvious.

And it& #39;s ableism.

I have been saying the same things since 2016 at least and I& #39;ve noticed a few changes for the better.

I keep talking about this stuff.

I& #39;m not very nice about this because I think it should be obvious that it& #39;s not acceptable to throw neurodivergent people under the bus based on certain diagnoses.

Also I think people should be more aware of what these terms mean and where some of them come from.

And I think that if there are legit psychiatric diagnoses you hear and automatically think "oh that& #39;s a bad/less valuable person", you need to examine that more because it might be a diagnosis that has bias built in to how it& #39;s formulated.

Psychology has a lot of bias built in.

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