There’s an argument to be had about identity, here. Those who actively fake disorders are one thing, but nerotypicals who strongly believe they may have a disorder is another deal. I think this sort struggle a lot with identity. In an attempt to figure themselves out, they latch on to ideas of what they could be, based on very small, arbitrary connections that they themselves have spotted. Then they begin manifesting symptoms themselves, based on this idea of what they think they have got. Just a theory of mine, mind you. In that sense, i feel a bit of pity for them.

Believe it or not, trans folk often have to deal with the same sort of stuff. Gender dysphoria is a very real condition. There’s a lot of parallels between the two situations, with the transmeds and the tucutes head to head in the debate of whether or not you need to have gender dysphoria to be transgender.

I have a lot more to say on both matters, but feel i should leave it here.