Post AP6ZXLQuAZ50mXcmvI by khaosgrille@fedi.absturztau.be
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 (DIR) Post #AP6Qb6B9vTaj2kyV6G by CorneliusHecker@mastodon.lol
       2022-10-30T02:24:38Z
       
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       I hate the desire many people have to find a diagnosis for evil, or for abuse. A few years ago, haven't seen it as much lately thankfully, it was autism; "autistic people don't have empathy" "autistic people are school shooters"These days people are sticking with cluster b disorders like NPD, ASPD, and BPD.People with any disorder can be abusive, people without any disorder can also be abusive.Anyone is capable of doing bad things, we have agency.
       
 (DIR) Post #AP6Qb7n7vnYY2nkKv2 by CorneliusHecker@mastodon.lol
       2022-10-30T02:31:19Z
       
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       Something that kinda fucks with me is I see this done with diagnoses given only to children such as ODD and CD-People will take these actual children and declare them naturally evil, even though these diagnoses are given disproportionately to black children and children who have undergone significant trauma. ODD was one of my childhood diagnoses, at the time I was given ODD, Autism, Dysthymia/Anxiety, and Developmental Coordination Disorder (Dyspraxia) with motor delays I think
       
 (DIR) Post #AP6Qb9ZjIa1nZpUfJY by CorneliusHecker@mastodon.lol
       2022-10-30T02:34:37Z
       
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       ODD for me was a trauma response. I had learned adults do not understand my needs, if I listened to them I could end up hurt. I learned this around the age of 2 or 3. So I stopped listening to adults and authority figures, being controlled felt extremely unsafe. Even if I wanted to do something, if doing it was phrased as an order I wouldn't comply. I could argue with adults for hours until I physically couldn't.It did indeed keep me safe I think.And I WASN'T evil.
       
 (DIR) Post #AP6ZXLQuAZ50mXcmvI by khaosgrille@fedi.absturztau.be
       2022-10-30T21:11:40.875734Z
       
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       @CorneliusHecker i think this idea is exactly what it tries to defy. Ofc ALL abusive people have issues. Denying that is the easy way out by pretending they are the evil, we are the good guys and we just need to fight them. Having issues or not does not mean no consequences. We dont need guilt as a concept for a just system and a just society. We can have empathy and explain the behaviour of an abusive person without accepting it. The issue is blaming people with mental issue.The issue is not being empathic with abusive people. Only with empathy we can know how to deal with them. Worst case lock them away because they endanger society, for example a convicted criminal