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Today it's called ODD, "woke", or "tankie" if an anarchist pisses off the wrong lib.
It's fuckin insane that ODD is still in the DSM. That alone is enough for me to want to dismiss the entire text.
I think it's more like if you're so opposed to what any authority figure tells you to do that you will do the opposite of what your doctor tells you, for example, sometimes out of spite or vindication.
Yes but I think that perspective puts all the onus of change on the harmed individual and none on the institution that abused and broke their trust of authority, and therefore functions as a scapegoat for abuse of authority, or authority itself. "Healing" under this understanding involves getting a traumatized individual to trust their doctor, who's authority likely chains back to the same powers who hold the reigns of their abuser, and to move on with their lives while that normalized abuser - The one creating the trauma in the first place - Continues to do untold harm. Someone labeled ODD is traumatized by authority yet the label exists not primarily to aid the victim, but to externalize blame away from the authority and onto the victim.
Furthermore I've at least read that more and more these days ODD "symptoms" are being reunderstood as expressions of various non-normative neurotypes that may place things like justice and ethical reciprocity at a higher priority than most. I myself have been introduced by my therapist to PDA type autism, Pathological/Persistent Demand Avoidance, which before it's relatively recent recognition used to get a lot of people slapped with the ODD label. I don't express my demand avoidance externally unless cornered, more it informs my entire lifestyle strategy in advance, so I escaped having a direct confrontation as a kid that would have gotten me labeled. But I identify strongly with and my heart goes out to ODD-labeled people.
Read what was linked, it's literally only diagnosed in children. In which case, yes, if they disregard all authority (including their parents), it is a problem.
It's a problem for a hierarchical society that requires continual compliance for next to no explanation, not a problem for the child. It's not a medical condition internal to an individual, it's a social illness external to them, and therefore has no place in a medical text.
ODD is an excuse diagnosis. It's literally "You rightfully criticise people for being authoritarian and us cops and fascists don't like that, boohoo".
It's basically a perfect example for the sociological model of disability.
We need a diagnosis instead for people who are needlessly authoritarian and intolerant.
It's called being a "fascist".
(But seriously, is there no diagnosis for it?)
There's no direct diagnosis as such, because being a fascist is more a description of the outward effect than what is happening inside the person, and other factors have a very strong influence as to if a person becomes a fascist leader or not (in other situations that person would "only" be abusive to the people around them, for instance). But there are diagnoses such as psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder, which are often present in these cases.
Side note: ODD is a diagnosis that is only people under 18, so it's explicitly not a political thing.
It fits in the authoritarian captalist system we're living in. The system rewards this behaviour.
We all have ODD on this blessed day.