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"For that matter, you could define diabetes as one end of the spectrum of behavior of the pancreas."

--Harriet Hall, over on Science-Based Medicine, among the comments. The post is by Hall, about psychiatry-bashing. (Yoon, some of the comments will make you sporky!)

Reposting here because I'm going to have to remember that quote for the next person who says ADD is merely one end of a spectrum of behavior of attention, as if it's supposed to make it OK that I can barely function in some important areas of life. Gosh! Out in the bush when being stalked by a leopard, ADD makes it easier to survive! Yeah, but HERE and NOW it's a liability.

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That reminds me, I need to go tlak to my doctor about my own history and see if I should be ... oh, look, House rerun! *scampers off*

"For that matter, you could define diabetes as one end of the spectrum of behavior of the pancreas."

Interesting way to look at it....

It was in response to one of the people suggesting that if we just look at mental conditions such as ADD as one end of a spectrum of behavior, then ... not sure what the point was. Hall points out that redefining diabetes doesn't mean we shouldn't treat it.

*eyes comments* Oy, 2009 is going to be a good year for Stupid, isn't it?

It's certainly started with a bang!

Yeah, I think I'll keep that one myself. I'm currently walking around in a state of near panic of "OH GOD OH GOD I FORGOT TO PAY IT!" because my gas and water bill was sent out later than it was last month and December was only my second month of having my bills broken down AND IT'S LATE AND THE APARTMENT MANAGER WILL BAN ME FROM THE OFFICE SOON BECAUSE I KEEP GOING BY TO ASK IF IT'S COME YET AND DID I SOMEHOW MISS MINE????

This has *finally* reminded me to do something I've been intending to for ages - my apartment bills me separately for water and trash, and I always forget to pay it. I also have my automatic payment to the company as including the trash fee because when I was doing the paperwork they CONSTANTLY quoted me price WITH the trash fee, so I automatically assumed it was included in the rent payment. Imagine my surprise to find otherwise.

Which means that every month, my account increased by about $7 and change, as that's the water and random-fee difference on the water/trash bill. :D I get a reminder once a week from them, and eventually pay the extra every few months when I'm in the office for something. And I finally just upped my rent payment by $8, to account for the discrepancy. XD

I have everything that I can billed through automatic payment, and can remember to pay rent just because it's a large amount. But they changed billing when I signed a new lease, and i';m still adjusting. Since it's paid in the apt office, it's a lot easier for me than other bills, because if I check mail before work, I can walk over and pay it, and if I check mail after work, I can put it on top of the laptop before bed and put a post it on the TV so that it'll get done in the morning. No running ourt on multiple errands and forgetting one, or logging on and getting sidetracked before I do it. It's that I know I didn't pay it when I did last month that causes the problem.

Yes, this. I get a bit tetchy at these movements that seek to deny that anything should be considered a liability or, gasp!, disorder.

People who try to deny that you have a disorder, or worse, assume that having a mental disorder makes you stupid, piss me off INCREDIBLY.

I had a goddamn TEACHER in high school, when I mentioned having a minor disorder that slows down my handwriting speed,* reply, "Then why are you in my honors class?" And, to add injury to insult, he kept acting like an asshole to me for a solid quarter (9 weeks), until I eventually dropped the class.

If I ever see that son of a bitch now that I've long since graduated, I'll have to work very hard to keep from killing him.

*: My ADD didn't worsen...or the assignments didn't get difficult enough...or both...to the point of seriously interfering with my ability to function until I was a sophomore at the college I'm currently attending.

AAARGGHH. Now I want to kill him.

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