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I know that there's so much negautivity around, but looking at this article from 1966, there is a precedent to this negative medicalization and characterization we experience, and things do get better.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articl...-2,00.html

article Wrote:
It is a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality, a pitiable flight from life. As such it deserves fairness, compassion, understanding and, when possible, treatment. But it deserves no encouragement, no glamorization, no rationalization, no fake status as minority martyrdom, no sophistry about simple differences in taste—and, above all, no pretense that it is anything but a pernicious sickness.

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