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So I'm just saying but if you're a true crime podcast host and you talk about psychopathy as though it's something someone can "have" like it's a legit mental illness diagnosis OR you conflate psychopathy with sociopathy with ASPD...
yeah you lose credibility with me.
yeah you lose credibility with me.
Something new followers should know about me is
a. I don't accept psychopathy or sociopathy as legit things. Mainly because they aren't.
They're basically things forensic criminologists came up with to explain away harm done by white cis men—like them.
a. I don't accept psychopathy or sociopathy as legit things. Mainly because they aren't.
They're basically things forensic criminologists came up with to explain away harm done by white cis men—like them.
b. I'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.
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's harmful behavior, it's really obvious.
And it's ableism.
And it's ableism.
I have been saying the same things since 2016 at least and I've noticed a few changes for the better.
I keep talking about this stuff.
I keep talking about this stuff.
I'm not very nice about this because I think it should be obvious that it'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.
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'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's formulated.
Psychology has a lot of bias built in.
Psychology has a lot of bias built in.
