If being gay/trans isn't a psychiatric illness, then what's "normal?"
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GhostPepperHot — 9 years ago(February 13, 2017 03:42 PM)
Normal? You are only normal to you. An individual cannot represent an average or a statistical mean of a population. A person is a whole, not a percentage of the "group."
That is what is wrong with people. They try to belong to a group and never know what they are to themselves. No wonder they are so easily misled to disaster.
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Darkramj — 9 years ago(February 16, 2017 07:47 AM)
First, the DSM is a guide to diagnosing/categorizing the nature of a problem someone has in their life. It's not a tool for determining who has what problem.
Second, a person's functionality determines whether or not they are in need of some form of corrective action in the closest thing to 'normal' that you're looking for.
https://www.omh.ny.gov/omhweb/Childservice/mrt/global_assessment_functioning.pdf
That's one typical reference, mental health professionals are trained to use discretion and observationnot checklists. If you are checking off symptoms in a book to see what people 'have' when they aren't suffering or reporting any dysfunction, you're doing it wrong.
If you can build and maintain healthy relationships, wash yourself, hold a job, etc. it doesn't matter if you believe that you're a werewolf. Normal in this context is determined by one's ability to manage their life in public and in private, not how they view themselves, others or their reality.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. G.K. Chesterton -
TakeUpReel — 9 years ago(February 16, 2017 09:52 AM)
Homosexuality was on the APA'S Diagnostic Manual of Mental Disorder list for DECADES until I think it was 1973, when it was taken off, supposedly under political pressure.
I'm not exactly sure of the reason that it was "taken off" the list, but I hope it was due to actual research into the subject and not because of political pressure.
At one time, we thought leeches and other forms of blood-letting were proper cures for various problems. Luckily, we don't think that anymore. At one time, mental illness was though to be demonic possession. Thankfully, we don't think that any more. My point is that it shouldn't matter what we thought in the past. We should constantly challenge our pre-conceived notions.
Homosexuals serve no reproductive purpose, nor do trans.
So what? Neither do heterosexual couples that are sterile, or elderly couples, or
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I'm not sure about your use of the word "normal", but homosexuality is "natural" by definition (since it is found is numerous species (in nature)not just "humans").
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