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Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels

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540 points drankl | 3 comments | 06 Jul 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.764s | source
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djoldman ◴[07 Jul 25 01:11 UTC] No.44485725[source]▶
The part that seems to be lost in all this is that there's really no purpose to learning/exploring/explaining unless it points to action.

Knowing you have ADHD, childhood trauma, attachment issues, etc. is useless if that knowledge does not enable you to take action or if you don't intend to take action.

Unless you just enjoy the learning for the learnings sake, seek to learn so as to plan and execute.

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borski ◴[07 Jul 25 01:45 UTC] No.44485925[source]▶
> Knowing you have ADHD, childhood trauma, attachment issues, etc. is useless if that knowledge does not enable you to take action or if you don't intend to take action.

That’s not actually true, and misses the point.

Knowing you have ADHD, alone, helps you stop blaming yourself and hating yourself for those things that are caused by the ADHD. It doesn’t excuse it, but understanding that those things aren’t moral failures are a huge deal to those who actually struggle with ADHD.

Moreover, most people with actual undiagnosed ADHD have spent their entire lifetime building coping mechanisms to manage it. Recognizing those does help build others in the future, even if just knowing changes nothing right then.

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1. automatoney ◴[07 Jul 25 02:27 UTC] No.44486173[source]▶
Your comment made me realize that maybe we're just going through the transition to a collectively better understanding of people. Right now we sort of have to pass through the clinical diagnosis/therapy terms in order to recognize something as not being a moral failure/making someone less valuable as a person. And then the next step we're building to is maybe like acceptance of people's differences without needing to make reference to diagnostic labels. Kind of like what's happened with queerness: past - fluid, undefined, marginalized; present - labels, understanding, less marginalization; future - moving beyond the need for labels in order for people to accept and understand.
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2. nlitened ◴[07 Jul 25 06:18 UTC] No.44487267[source]▶
If someone is overly aggressive, or rarely fulfills promises, or is very negative about things, or has a very fragile ego — it absolutely makes them less valuable as a person to others. Just look up any definitions of the word “valuable”
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3. evilsetg ◴[07 Jul 25 07:14 UTC] No.44487539[source]▶
Thankfully, a lot of cultures also recognize inherent value in humans that does not derive from their usefulness.