“Names don’t constitute knowledge” . . . “When you know all the names in every language of that bird, you know nothing, absolutely nothing about that bird.” Richard Feynman
Psychiatric labeling is bundling symptoms into a meme that fronts as an underlying pathology. Psychiatric labeling is name-calling that facilitates sanctioned daily drugging and obscures root causes. Psychiatric labels are descriptions of symptoms that get conflated as the cause. This confusion contributes to people overlooking true causes. Who benefits from this other than those who profit?
A person can be autistic, but they cannot "have” autism because it's not something they can have, because autism is not a cause, it's an effect. The word autism, like other labels, describes a wide set of behaviors. What we actually “have” varies a lot. The various pathologies can all be labeled autism because they present as vaguely similar bundles of symptoms.
What do people actually have, when they say they “have” a psychiatric…
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