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Re: Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels

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Post by Walf »

motorest wrote: post #351
Walf wrote: post #167

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I'm sure there are those who self-diagnose without really suffering from a condition, but you do realise time blindness is a real issue, right? https://www.simplypsychology.org/adhd-time-blindness.html I don't watch TikTok videos, I don't use Instagram, but I have been plagued by these symptoms my entire life, and don't really care about others opinions on it. You probably don't have it if those symptoms don't resona…

> Im sure there are those who self-diagnose without really suffering from a condition, but you do realise time blindness is a real issue, right? So is Munchausen syndrome, but somehow people don't self diagnose that one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factitious_disorder_imposed_on...

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Re: Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels

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Post by blueflow »

BobaFloutist wrote: post #458
blueflow wrote: post #347

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You opened up how you feel about a thing and your parents derided you for it. Did it change you? No, but it surely made you feel like shit. This is a social deficit in your parents, and asserting yourself as "introverted" is the workaround.

It's funny how op was primarily complaining about how annoying it is to have a load of assumptions dumped on them and you read their post, assumed the derision they described came from their parents, and made it about that rather than the point they were trying to express.

Only one assumption: that it came from his parents.

If his parent were supportive, it would not have been a "i am wrong" situation, but "someone is being an ass to me".

Re: Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels

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Post by akimbostrawman »

rexpop wrote: post #481
giingyui wrote: post #303

It’s surprising that this article doesn’t mention LGBT or disabilities at all. The same effect extends to those two. And, in the same vein, it’s females “buying” it. “…between 19% and 22% of women aged 18 to 25 identify as bi.” https://nypost.com/2023/04/18/gen-z-women-identify-as-bisexu...

Only assholes* use "female" as a noun. "Female" is primarily a scientific or biological term that refers to sex, not gender. When used as a noun for humans, it reduces women to their reproductive capabilities and strips away their individuality and humanity, making them seem less than fully human or equivalent to animals. For example, "female" can refer to any species, while "woman" specifically refers to human being…

Only assholes put words and motives into other peoples mouths to strawman there arguments.

You are clearly the only one who is being derogatory and dismissive

Re: Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels

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Post by akimbostrawman »

scotty79 wrote: post #359

There are no normal people. Only undiagnosed ones. This is an old observation. The only change was that we started to attempt to diagnose and some people find it useful, some harmful and annoying.

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Re: Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels

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Post by motorest »

Walf wrote: post #501
motorest wrote: post #351

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> Im sure there are those who self-diagnose without really suffering from a condition, but you do realise time blindness is a real issue, right? So is Munchausen syndrome, but somehow people don't self diagnose that one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factitious_disorder_imposed_on...

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> Did you even search for anything before making that idiotic comment?

You acknowledged the fact that "there are those who self-diagnose without really suffering from a condition".

I, in turn, added to the fact that you pointed out that not only are there "those who self-diagnose without really suffering from a condition" but there is also a complex mental disorder where individuals play the role of a sick patient to receive some form of psychological validation.

This somehow triggered in you an emotional reaction. Why was that?

Re: Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels

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Post by motorest »

Walf wrote: post #497
motorest wrote: post #353

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> The top-level comment seems to attribute all such people who identify with those symptoms as doing so because of a trend. I think the only source of disagreement is in the way you chose to frame it in absolutes, i.e., "all such people" instead of "people". Framing anything in absolutes counts as a strawman argument, because all you need to do to refute it is find a single case, no matter how isolated it is, where i…

So you didn't think they were dismissive or trivialised the issue? I mean, I can sympathise with the frustration of people somewhat 'giving up' after labelling their own issues, but it's not a logical conclusion to assign it all to a trend. That's what they appeared to be blaming and I didn't see them say otherwise, in any of their comments.

> So you didn't think they were dismissive or trivialised the issue?

What issue would that be? People falsely claiming they suffer from conditions they do not have? Or is it when they claim they struggle with a condition they self-diagnosed but somehow don't even bother to seek medical help not even to verify a diagnosis? Because if there is something that harms those who actually have to endure these conditions is people making fraudulent claims and trying to capitalize on everyone's goodwill.

> I mean, I can sympathise with the frustration of people somewhat 'giving up' after labelling their own issues, but it's not a logical conclusion to assign it all to a trend.

Is it "giving up", or is it just abusing a label they clearly know doesn't apply to them? You're somehow avoiding the elephant in the room and the whole point of this thread, which is the problem created by fraudulent claims by attention seekers.

Re: Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels

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Post by stevenAthompson »

poulpy123 wrote: post #381
stevenAthompson wrote: post #128

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The author's concerns would mostly all be ameliorated by logging out of TikTok and never logging back in. They seem to think that "TikTok" and "Society" are synonyms. They are not.

Tiktok seems to have between 1 and 2 billion users. It's not just something for the terminally online

I would argue that TikTok is what terminally online means now.
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