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Originally Posted by Talthybius
How is high-functioning Asperger's the same as a depression?
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I simply can't find this in the thread and there's no way for me to tell whose post you were directing this to. Can you help?
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Originally Posted by Talthybius
And yes, in a sense you literally get a mental disorder the moment you get diagnosed with it. They are just human made up boxes of symptoms that seem to be a pattern. Two people that both share a mental disorder may share nothing in terms of pathology. We just don't understand the brain. Let alone the personalities the brain is capable to project.
So in the same sense Einstein could have never had Asperger's. Einstein died in 1955. Aspergers was officially recognized as a disorder in 1994. And it was eliminated in 2013 (at least under the DSM-5).
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This is a way to look at it, but I have to stretch to see it. Da Vinci had an extraordinarily large corpus callosum, but since we didn't recognize the corpus callosum at the time he was alive...then he didn't? Is that the same thing?
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Originally Posted by Talthybius
I am not against the idea of diagnosing disorders. The advantage is that you have some idea about what treatment will be effective based on people with the same symptoms. So you hope that all people with the same diagnosis benefit from exactly the same treatment.
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Agreed.