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@AncientGood > I think I, as always, missed main point of your post

I had two main points, and I wasnt all that clear, not your fault. You did get half of the picture though :)

it reminds me a book? or a story? when guy was reading a medical book and found like hundred different illness and disorders in himself

This is a known pattern among new medical students. As they learn they start tpo worry they have most of the things they learn about.

people (especially youth) are very impressionable, so I like your choice to call it “designer disorder”, since is 1) everywhere on social media, 2) fancy and 3) gives you social (victim) points, so a lot of so called people on the spectrum are just lucking social skills (yeah, irony, I think I have more of this than actual problem)

This is a big part of the problem, yea. The other side is that I think the diagnosis is just reversed. The majority of Americans legitimately have personality disorders. But psychiatrity tends to assume the majority is what is normal. So isntead of diagnosing 90% of people with personality disorder they diagnost 10% of people (incorrectly) with autism. Its just some massive societal form of unintentional gaslighting.

to add something valuable to conversation,

You already added value my friend.

I remember recently I was listening to a podcast (Peter Atia? Uberman? or Shane from Knowledge Project? one of these guys) when host had a guest, forgot his main specialization, but he told a story how he had a stroke, and after he found out, that we basically live in illusion, we as humans have multiple systems for reality check, but his stroke disrupted seamless work of them all as one “mind”, that was unexpected perspective.. dunno.. to how fragile we are and how our brain does a lot of work to interpret reality.

This is something i can relate to. I practice altered state meditation where I try to learn to control those parts of the brain.. it isnt easy but you can “turn off” things like the part of your brain that recognizes faces, and when you do its a very bizzarre thing and gives you a similar feeling where you realize most of your perception is an illusion.

now I regret that I picked math instead of neuroscience, brains are much more interesting