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by Grustaf 2580 days ago
First of all I'm not talking about depression, I'm talking about things like "ADHD".

My point is that many people, especially parents, tend to accept a lot of bad behaviour from people as soon as they mention some magical acronym.

If you accept that human neurology is a spectrum, then you realise that we all have different starting points. The question then becomes how much should society accommodate people with worse starting points, and I firmly believe that we are too accepting, and a lot of that is because people put scientific sounding names on their shortcomings.