QT: If anorexics identify as underweight, is it wrong to give them weight-restoring treatment?

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[–]GenderbenderShe/her/hers 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (35 children)

  1. Just because it's in the DSM, doesn't mean it's a mental illness. Autism is in the DSM, but many autistic people don't want a cure.

  2. Many people have an innate gender identity. I am a cis woman. I prefer being a woman. If I was born a man or woke up the next day as a man I would transition. I would feel distressed if I had a penis and a beard. I guess some would consider it a mental illness but in that case the only reason why I don't have a mental illness is because I was born in the "right" body.

  3. There are currently no other treatment options for severe dysphoria other than to than transition. That's why people take hormones and have surgeries, because of severe dysphoria that causes distress with sex characteristics. If you can find a treatment that makes people content with their sex, that would be amazing. Right now this is all we have.

  4. Starving yourself can lead to death. HRT can have unpleasant side effects, but it's not an immediate risk of death.

[–]MezozoicGaygay male 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If you can find a treatment that makes people content with their sex, that would be amazing.

Sadly it is not possible in current political climate, and such researches are not welcome. People getting attacked for trying to research such, or even fired for "practicing conversion therapy".

[–]CatbugMods allow rape victim blaming in this sub :) 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (33 children)

Wanting a cure or not doesn’t make something not a disorder lmao.

If you don’t want to get chemo you don’t stop having cancer. How would a developmental disorder become neurotypicality just by denying there’s anything different?

[–]GenderbenderShe/her/hers 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (32 children)

Autism is not a disease, unlike cancer.

[–]CatbugMods allow rape victim blaming in this sub :) 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (31 children)

It’s a developmental disorder. I’m begging you not to try and inform me about a disorder I have.

Disorder, meaning something is functioning abnormally or not functioning. You cannot pretend that there is no difference between a person with autism and one without it. It’s nonsensical and insultingly dismissive of the challenges of living with an ASD.

Do you have anything substantial or just an endless repetition of your opinions in store?

[–]GenderbenderShe/her/hers 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (30 children)

I have a learning disability, and as a result the ableist school system put me in a segregated class till high school. I do not consider it a disorder. My OCD, ADHD and depression are definitely disorders which thankfully are controlled with medication.

[–]CatbugMods allow rape victim blaming in this sub :) 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (29 children)

Your learning disorder does not give you authority to decide that developmental disorders are not disorders.

None of your experience is an argument to stop recognising neurodevelopmental differences.

[–]GenderbenderShe/her/hers 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (28 children)

The term disorder implies something is abnormal. My learning difference is not abnormal, and in my life I was disabled more due to discrimination than due to my learning difference.

[–]CatbugMods allow rape victim blaming in this sub :) 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (27 children)

You’re mixing autism up with a learning disability. The two are different beasts entirely.

[–]GenderbenderShe/her/hers 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (26 children)

A learning difference is not a beast.

I read r/autism on Reddit and some autistic people are offended by the term symptoms. They prefer the term characteristics. I share this sentiment and I am offended when people imply learning differences need to be cured or that they are a “problem”. I know most autistic people support the neurodiversity movement.

[–]CatbugMods allow rape victim blaming in this sub :) 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (25 children)

Some people being offended does not make them neurotypical. Yes it would be great to be understood better and for differences to be better accepted but that does not change the fact that developmentally, something different from the ideal norm happened and there are varying challenges with that.

Why does the insult of these people matter but my saying I’m insulted by the dismissal of my condition as simply a mild difference does not matter? What reasoning do you have for picking and choosing who’s feelings and who’s experiences matter and who’s don’t?

You don’t know most autistic people because they aren’t on r/autism. That’s a ridiculous claim to make and cannot be backed.

Different beasts is a turn of phrase. Not a literal beast. 🙄