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If you are well organized, it is a healthy trait. no one would say you are "on the OCD spectrum".. but when that trait gets out of hand we would say you have OCD, and likely would be diagnosed as such.
I see (autism) ASD and ADHD as much the same way. Most people diagnosed with it who are high functioning dont really have it at all. It is just a personality trait and all in all a positive one. high-functioning ASD are just people without social hangups, good. And people with ADHD who are high-functioning are largely just amazing multi-taskers.
The harm in putting people on a spectrum is they see themselves asa diseased, broken, something that needs "consideration.. they arent, in most cases in the right proportions these "diseases" are in fact just super powers, things more people should wisht hey have really.
@freemo A few things:
* Cognitive disabilities are not "super powers". This is (with respect) an ableist take. Sure there are benefits (I get a lot of utility from ADHD hyperfocus) but it comes with a heavy cost.
* Autistic people do not have "social hangups". See https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/professional-practice/double-empathy
* The concept of "high functioning" is relative to social expectations, which are exclusionary and largely arbitrary. This is not useful or accurate. But I'm curious to know how you would define it?
Cognitive disabilities are super powers in the right and healthy proportions. As a person diagnosed with ASD this has become quite evident. I gave specific examples of how. The whole point is calli g them cognitive disabilitiea is a bad take. They are personality traits that whwn they become too exagerated cause harm, but in healthy proportions are good.
Ths relative nature of social expectations is exactly how psychiatry is designed. Desieases are generalally ide tified by their manifestation when among the normal population.
One of the studies i helped work on shows, interestingly, how people who would qualify for an autism diagnosis based on their expiernce when living in the states typically when reevaluated relative to their interactions in another countery (in this case when living in germany) they know longer met the diagnostic criteria in many cases.
Also calling someone diagnosed on the ASD who is a professional researxh scie tist who has worked to advance the topic and ablist is kinda out of touch with reality and rude, but we can let that slide...
@freemo Having said that, I do agree with what you’re saying about the cultural relativity of personality traits.
@freemo I didn’t call you ableist, I said that what you said was ableist, and I stand by that, and still hear it in your latest reply.
If you want to think of yourself in the terms you’re describing, then fair enough, I only object to you generalising such dismissiveness on broader communities. Yours is the harmful attitude in my opinion.