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COVxy posted...

I mean, for clinical reasons it's obvious why it's there.

It's probably scientifically more important to think about things in terms of abnormality. Though, you run into issues where people are sensitive to that word. I mean, homosexuality is an abnormality. Transgenderism is an abmormality. But people get upset about that, so people just don't discuss it with the public.

right

there are valid reasons to use it in practice, but with regards to defining conditions it seems kind of misleading to me to make them contingent on every day functioning.

for me it is specifically because there are a lot of reasons to think that two people with the same 'abnormality' but different life circumstances will have their everyday lives affected by it differently, which means that if you face structural barriers you are more likely to have a 'disorder' than if you don't

which seems kind of stupid to me
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