Sure. I know we all have fits of insecurity and melodramatic notions, especially as teenagers.

I’ll never be noticed because NO ONE IS IN LOVE WITH ME. I wonder what people THINK ABOUT ME? What do I MEAN TO OTHERS?

Naw, it's not actually that hard though. It's just like a basic rule of human interaction that if someone asks you to stop doing something that is hurtful to them, you try to stop, especially when it's not any kind of hardship for you.

"Did this culture have a genocide in its past?"

"When my peers see stuff like this the vast majority of them don't lean forward in interest to learn about the culture, they wonder why it's such a big deal when there are so many other things people can make a fuss over."

Actually Native Americans were victim of a genocide.

It's amazing how upsetting white people find the idea that cultural appropriation is problematic. It's equally amazing how often their "issues" with the subject boil down to "I do it, so it can't be bad! Stop making me feel guilty!"

Yes, that's exactly what they are saying. In fact, I don't know why Katie didn't add in how the Plains Indians are currently on their way to VS headquarters to scalp them some underwear executives! Oh! Wait, that's because they're not! They're not even yelling about it! They're simply asking for respect and to use…

So you're white, right?

To you.

Yeah. That's why they now talk about OCD spectrum disorders, autism spectrum disorders, anxiety spectrum, etc. A lot of this stuff seems to be part of the normal variation in human behaviour, expressed in varying degrees in everyone, with it only being noteworthy in the particularly highly expressed cases. To be…

"that doesn't make him a psychopath any more than wearing uncle shorts makes me Lance Armstrong"

More talented? Not usually. Beyond understanding, usually. Lex Luthor and Moriarty are the exception, not the rule. More often, like the Joker, they're brilliant in some twisted way that the hero has difficulty understanding and so cannot guess their next move. Batman has fought Joker so long that he's sort of got a…

But (and possibly I explained badly), I'm saying that they're NOT the same diagnosis. Sociopaths cannot function within society, whereas Psychopaths can. The article is saying they're the same, when they're not. Manic depression and bipolar ARE the same thing.

It's also possible for real people to not meet an official diagnosis. People can be said to have a tendency toward autism or mania or psychopathy, etc. without meeting the criteria to be diagnosed as such. This is probably especially true of high-functioning people who are not neurotypical, like Sherlock seems to be.

Are you asking me to take your word over Sherlock's? I think not!

It's not a sociopathic tendency because he chooses it. A sociopath doesn't get to choose, doesn't even realize that there might be a choice.

It's pretty possible for any fictional character to not meet any official diagnosis—their responses aren't predicated on biology and medicine—they're based on plot requirements. So he might be Asperger's one day, some sort of idiot savant the next, psychopath for the season finale...

A psychopath doesn't get to pick and choose what they're detached from, though. It's an all or nothing proposition. So, his attachments to Watson and Mrs. Hudson fail him on that criterion. It doesn't matter if he's detached from Mycroft and every single case. Those two are all it takes.

I had always thought that Sherlock Holmes had Asperger's Syndrome. He does have restricted patterns of behavior, activities, and interests, no significant delay in cognitive development or general delay in language, not to mention his intense preoccupation with a narrow subject, one-sided verbosity, and somewhat…