Your personal experience (opinion) does not put you on the same level of expertise as thousands of researchers, doctors and scientists. All far more educated on the matter and all seeing far more people and examples than just your personal experience.
Then to explicitly say that all those thousands of professionals are all secretly ignoring data, fabricating diagnosis, collectively lying… because of some nebulous “the powerful”… it is ignorance giving way to conspiracy. It is recklessly dangerous to say that the diagnosis isnt real and consequently that meds are bad.
Would that be acceptable advice for any other diagnosis? “Adhd isnt real, dont take your meds”, “Bipolar isnt real, dont take meds”. No, it wouldn’t. Anyone claiming know more than doctors and “just trust me” should be eyed with the level of skepticism you’d give RFK Jr. Same exact thought process.
There’s been many documented cases of doctors misdiagnosing women purely based on gender, for example, dismissing complaints of pain. It can go either way, especially if the condition described is tied to an established oppressive stereotype.
okay… but that’s not what the previous poster was saying. They weren’t talking about under/misdiagnosing or anything about discrepancies in gender. They were dismissing the condition all together as a conspiracy to pacify and sedate kids who “ask too many questions” (have a condition). Based on their personal opinions.
So you don’t see the similarities between doctors being dismissive towards two groups of people who are generally seen by society as ones that have to be submissive?
no, I don’t. And frankly, if you do, you’re grasping at straws to make a very tenuous and forced point that misdirects from the topic being discussed.
I’m not saying that those aren’t issues or that don’t need to be addressed. I am saying, however, that it’s not THIS issue. And trying to turn that into this, just feels like a personal bias of yours and not a real connection.
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This is a wildly dangerous dismissal.
Your personal experience (opinion) does not put you on the same level of expertise as thousands of researchers, doctors and scientists. All far more educated on the matter and all seeing far more people and examples than just your personal experience.
Then to explicitly say that all those thousands of professionals are all secretly ignoring data, fabricating diagnosis, collectively lying… because of some nebulous “the powerful”… it is ignorance giving way to conspiracy. It is recklessly dangerous to say that the diagnosis isnt real and consequently that meds are bad.
Would that be acceptable advice for any other diagnosis? “Adhd isnt real, dont take your meds”, “Bipolar isnt real, dont take meds”. No, it wouldn’t. Anyone claiming know more than doctors and “just trust me” should be eyed with the level of skepticism you’d give RFK Jr. Same exact thought process.
There’s been many documented cases of doctors misdiagnosing women purely based on gender, for example, dismissing complaints of pain. It can go either way, especially if the condition described is tied to an established oppressive stereotype.
okay… but that’s not what the previous poster was saying. They weren’t talking about under/misdiagnosing or anything about discrepancies in gender. They were dismissing the condition all together as a conspiracy to pacify and sedate kids who “ask too many questions” (have a condition). Based on their personal opinions.
So you don’t see the similarities between doctors being dismissive towards two groups of people who are generally seen by society as ones that have to be submissive?
no, I don’t. And frankly, if you do, you’re grasping at straws to make a very tenuous and forced point that misdirects from the topic being discussed.
I’m not saying that those aren’t issues or that don’t need to be addressed. I am saying, however, that it’s not THIS issue. And trying to turn that into this, just feels like a personal bias of yours and not a real connection.