[throw383y8]

Priviliges?

Mental illness is quite common. Imagine you could not label people as "creepy" or "invel", because they are most likely on some sort of spectrum. With mental illness they would be protected group. If it's personality trait, they are just creepy loosers.

[TeMPOraL]

Well, at least it would stop people from calling them names and feeling smugly superior about being on the lucky side of circumstances they likely had zero control over. At the same time, those "creeps" would have more therapy options available, helping at least some of them fit in better with the society at large.

I understand that some types of people are inherently a problem for the majority of the population; I still feel that calling them "creepy losers" is a douchebag behavior that shows lack of empathy.

[mrangle]

Trained, high functioning people with the same condition are likely the best diagnosticians for that condition. At least for The Spectrum. As they would theoretically be better able to identify malingerers. The other side of the coin is that they could be more likely to flesh out a diagnoses in people whose symptoms are subtler or otherwise better covered.