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[lonelyboyjan2006]

Rest

[pukicho]

Everyone likes the cool handsome tough guy, yet for some odd reason, no one seems to enjoys the ever-humble fat ugly shitty guy

[certifiedsexed]

Genuine question, what issue do you have with the dsm having ODD in it? I know next to nothing about ODD btw

Well, I'm Black and survived lots of trauma and child abuse, which admittedly colors my opinion but here's a run down:

ODD (or Oppositional Defiant Disorder) is a diagnosis almost solely given to Black and Native/Indigenous American kids (and its often given to Black/Native/Indigenous kids who display the same symptoms that get their white counterparts diagnosis' like PTSD, Autism and ADHD).

The symptoms of ODD largely revolve around "disliking authority figures", "being angry", "defies rules and authority figures", and "argumentative". I think like, 50% of kids in prison get diagnosed with it in the US.

Its not used to help kids, its used to label them as "bad" for displaying feelings and things that are often explicit signs of trauma and/or neurodivergence, especially kids of color!

The "science" (or lack thereof) behind it has been torn down repeatedly and yet the DSM-5 continues to keep it there so people can use the diagnosis to fuck kids over. And its not just the racism that pisses me off, to be clear!!

The explicit bigotry in having a disorder that boils down to "your kid is angry, doesn't trust adults and argues a lot", especially with the state of ageism in the world is so dangerous for kids and fucking despicable.

[wednesdaysfullofwoe]

[academic-vampire]

𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔠𝔥𝔬𝔬𝔰𝔢 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤

[dec2007]

i have fever..

[rosieandthemoon]

[malowisp]

Do you ever just ?