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Yeah, let's make diagnoses of people we don't know because of some blog post.


So how are you supposed to intelligently take in an article like this if you can't speculate on the causes of the trauma he reports? "Diagnosing" someone is by definition done by an expert. Having a suspicion as to the cause of something (even if that cause might be a mental disorder), is something regular people do, in order to make good decisions.


Because there are a lot of interesting topics in his blog post that can be discussed that have nothing to do with whether he has some disorder or not.

For example, I can actually pretty much relate to this guy's feelings about telephones. Is it also caused by me having some mental disorders?


The guy shared his personal issues in great detail. What's unfair about readers drawing some conclusions from it?


"Sounds to me" is a bit soft to come off as a diagnosis to me.




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