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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 751401" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>RN is speaking about whether or not the diagnosis my son was recently given sheds light upon our situation.</p><p></p><p>No.</p><p></p><p>What it would do is to concretize specific behaviors, freeze them, into a irrevocable reality. Make them into an institution. That's all a diagnosis is. A label to abstract people into categories so as to speak about them as a type, not a soul.</p><p></p><p>And that is exactly what I won't do.</p><p></p><p>My son for his whole life will be a potential. A potential to be. I will keep believing and orienting towards him in this way. As somebody who is capable of rising above. </p><p></p><p>This stance is harder. This aspirational stance. It's hard not to get bitter and judgmental and impatient and frustrated. But what's the better alternative? I don't see any.</p><p></p><p>I thank everybody for their care and support.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 751401, member: 18958"] RN is speaking about whether or not the diagnosis my son was recently given sheds light upon our situation. No. What it would do is to concretize specific behaviors, freeze them, into a irrevocable reality. Make them into an institution. That's all a diagnosis is. A label to abstract people into categories so as to speak about them as a type, not a soul. And that is exactly what I won't do. My son for his whole life will be a potential. A potential to be. I will keep believing and orienting towards him in this way. As somebody who is capable of rising above. This stance is harder. This aspirational stance. It's hard not to get bitter and judgmental and impatient and frustrated. But what's the better alternative? I don't see any. I thank everybody for their care and support. [/QUOTE]
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