Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone's Head
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The Importance of Diagnosis
I think of the categories as being used to define when an insurance payment should be made. It takes a lot of people who have very, you know, mixed traits or not things that I would call a disorder and it labels them in a way that is stigmatizing. But at the same time, in some cases, a diagnosis can be comforting. Sometimes a diagnosis means to a person, ah, I am not the only one. There's hope. The older British culture of sinophile scholars, overrated or underrated. Impossible to to overrate. Okay. What kind of cyborg would you like to be? I would certainly like to have a far better memory than I do. And
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