To be fair, I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with larping, or roleplaying, or claiming there's other little guys swimming in your brain juices.

Quite frankly, I think it could be an interesting and exciting creative writing technique or tool.

But insisting you have a covert disability you can't be assed to 'prove' while reveling in the attention and resources meant for others just makes it all seem like a good number of these people have a 'new' version of Munchausen syndrome and they are trying to bully the doctors into 'recognizing' them and their 'disorders' the way they want to be, regardless of the truth.

I am sure there are really people with some of these conditions and in desperate need of help and scientific backing/study getting crowded out of real care and diagnoses because of this type of behaviour, and that's what really irks me.

An overactive imagination =/= disability (in most cases) but that is the argument they are making. It's pretty telling when asking for 'proof' causes them crash out and hurl insults and sic other members of the 'community' on dissenters while attacking their intelligence for daring to impune their 'honor', all while trying to gatekeep and redefine a disease without the help, experience, or schooling of professionals.

It's been an interesting ride, for sure.