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Why do we pretend normal society is functional?

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There are prostitutes, drug gangs and skinhead men roaming the streets in the early hours looking to prove themselves with their fists.

Why are none of these given psychiatric diagnoses?

It seems odd that it's always the people like Autistic people who are seen as odd. What is normal about the way a lot of people behave?

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  • Unfortunately if you wanted everyone to have personal help, diagnosis and assistance who need it, including people who just have a skewed view on life or have got into a culture of violence, etc, then you would probably need some sort of health / social expert for every one in ten people in the country. So if we needed to recruit 6 million people to look after the 60 million people we have, who knew what they were doing, we would also have to train them. So lets say we pay them £20,000 per year and to train them it costs us another £5000 over the first couple of years. That's going to cost us around £150 billion plus management, plus work spaces, pensions, taxes, etc, etc. Then there is a problem with actually finding those people. Nobody would elect a government that said we would spend that, which means we are always stuck in a world where the minimum to please the people is delivered. Its a harsh world...

    I do think much can be done to change the perception of society towards an understanding that we are all different and regardless of the issue, most of us have some sort of issue, and once society normalises that, we will all be in a better place.

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  • Unfortunately if you wanted everyone to have personal help, diagnosis and assistance who need it, including people who just have a skewed view on life or have got into a culture of violence, etc, then you would probably need some sort of health / social expert for every one in ten people in the country. So if we needed to recruit 6 million people to look after the 60 million people we have, who knew what they were doing, we would also have to train them. So lets say we pay them £20,000 per year and to train them it costs us another £5000 over the first couple of years. That's going to cost us around £150 billion plus management, plus work spaces, pensions, taxes, etc, etc. Then there is a problem with actually finding those people. Nobody would elect a government that said we would spend that, which means we are always stuck in a world where the minimum to please the people is delivered. Its a harsh world...

    I do think much can be done to change the perception of society towards an understanding that we are all different and regardless of the issue, most of us have some sort of issue, and once society normalises that, we will all be in a better place.

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