While I absolutely have concerns with the way we trivialize and minimize real disorders and disabilities nowadays, it's also inaccurate to say that someone doesn't really have it if they haven't had to be hospitalized or medicated or had it manifest in some way you interpret as serious.
I recently saw a comment that was like "Don't tell me you have OCD until you've been hospitalized for it." Well, no. Not everyone who has OCD or any particular mental illness gets hospitalized. Not everyone who has a learning disability needed to be in a separate school or classroom throughout their childhood. These disorders all do exist on a spectrum. Also, if a disorder is detected early and a person is able to develop adequate coping mechanisms and avoids total breakdowns or disastrous consequences, that obviously doesn't mean they didn't ever have the disorder.
Please maintain room for nuance.












