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Drag, I get where you're coming from, but don't you think those three groups are different?
Schizo? Schizo ppl are harmless and don't deserve to have something fundamental to their mental state used as an insult. I completely agree with you here.
Narcissist? This wasn't always a diagnosis and doesn't always refer to one. I don't see anything wrong with using this as an insult. Defending it under ableism kinda feels like calling the word "abuser" abelist - sure, abusive people probably also struggle with mental health.
Psychopath? That's also pretty hard to defend.
Honesty I think you'd be better off pointing out how these people aren't mentally ill and are fully culpable for what they do, instead of labeling it all abelist.
The word Schizo definetly doesn't belong here, that is abelist. Peterson isn't schizo he's a close minded misandrist.
Drag is willing to accept that premise only after psychologists put "abuser disorder" in the DSM. They can probably put it right next to "crime disorder" and "being a bad person disorder" within the "things that are behaviours and not mental health conditions" section. Until that section gets made, everything in the DSM is a mental health condition and NOT an action.
Por que no los dos?
Trump is a criminal because he's chosen to do criminal things. Musk is an abuser because he's chosen to do abusive things. ASPD and NPD aren't choices and they aren't actions. Mixing up criminal and abusive behaviour with mental health conditions is ableist. It's the ableism that happens when you hear about a bad thing and assume a minority did it. "Someone robbed the convenience store? Must have been a black." "A famous musician molested a child? I always knew he was gay." "A politician bribed a pornstar with campaign funds to hide his relationship with her? He must have a mental illness." It's wrong.
Taking words away from people that they use to describe their abusers (narcissist, psychopath) is going to hurt people who don't deserve it (schizophrenia, etc) when you lump it all together as abelism. That's my point.
In my opinion, they did put abuser disorder in the DSM. Here's the diagnosis criterion for NPD (need 5/9, must be maladaptive) Notice how its just the description of an emotionally abusive person, when you need 5 and its gotta be bad enough to affect your life?
This is from Wikipedia, btw, I dont own the manual and cant find it online. DSM is just a guide to help psychiatrists give treatment to people who need help, not a list of descriptors you can no longer use.
Is it really? Let's do some math.
The way other people feel about themselves isn't an attack on you. You don't have the right to police other people's level of self esteem. Abusive traits so far: 0/1
The way other people feel about themselves isn't an attack on you. You don't have the right to police other people's level of self esteem. Abusive traits so far: 0/2
The way other people feel about themselves isn't an attack on you. You don't have the right to police other people's level of self esteem. Abusive traits so far: 0/3
Other people having needs isn't an attack on you. You don't have the right to police other people's needs. You can say no, you can say you don't personally want to be asked or expected to do it, you can't get mad at people for wanting something. Abusive traits so far: 0/4
This is called being a Karen, not being an abuser. Abusive traits so far: 0/5
This one is abusive. Abusive traits so far: 1/6
Other people not having the feelings you want them to have isn't an attack on you. You don't have the right to police other people's feelings. Abusive traits so far: 1/7
Other people having bad feelings isn't an attack on you. You don't have the right to police other people's feelings. Abusive traits so far: 1/8
The way other people feel about themselves isn't an attack on you. You don't have the right to police other people's level of self esteem. Abusive traits so far: 1/9
Okay, we did the math and found that only one out of nine traits is abusive, and given five are required for a diagnosis, it's reasonable to assume most people with NPD don't have any symptoms that make them abusers. On the other hand, most of the traits you called abusive were just other people's feelings you don't like. So it sounds like you're just interested in being the thought police and acting like the contents of other people's heads is an attack on you. Which, you know, is a method abusers use to control their victims. Drag doesn't like you.