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scrumper99@hotmail.com's avatar

Oh my, this really does need a wider audience. So important. As a general misfit I have long championed the causes of the nureodivergent, the gender divergent, the psychiatrically vulnerable, the mentally broken. So much human suffering is unavoidable (natural disaster, disease), so why perversely add to the suffering of so many through narrow-minded prejudice, which should be entirely avoidable? Let people just be. OK, psycopaths do not 'suffer', but still, let's apply the same intellectual standards. My partner is not neurotypical and also doe not 'suffer' as such, but he experiences a strong and disruptive cognitive sense of 'wrongness", which I imagine is the motivation for Athena being so prolific on this site.

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Athena Walker's avatar

It is a part of it, yes. I do not like misinformation, and this is a subject where I have the ability to concisely correct said information on this particular topic.

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scrumper99@hotmail.com's avatar

I'm very glad you are writing this out so exhaustively. This work needs an audience beyond this substack.

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Athena Walker's avatar

Thank you, Scrumper

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Damaged's avatar

I wonder what Hare thinks about the book "Pass The PCL-R" by Abraham Gentry

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Athena Walker's avatar

That is an excellent question, but I don't know

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Invisigoth's avatar

further motivation to stay far away from therapists :P

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Athena Walker's avatar

In many respects, I agree

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scrumper99@hotmail.com's avatar

You need to be on the defensive and have your wits about you.

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Sheez's avatar

Very interesting and you make some very good points. Looking forward to the next post.

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