ODD

[supergee]

An article about the danger of treating resistance to authority as a mental health problem, such as "Oppositional Defiant Disorder" (ODD). I mostly agree, but I think I myself am an ODD-ball. One symptom is that I reflexively distrust political, religious, financial, etc. authority, which all by itself makes me right an alarming amount of the time, but there's also a certain amount of sheer perversity, like wanting to shit in the environment and wipe my ass on the social fabric.

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[necturus]

Do you remember when the Brezhnev-era Soviet Union used to commit dissidents to mental institutions? This is not much different, methinks.