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WP William's avatar

"Introvert-related Autism" perhaps, or some such new malady to define... studies/grants, then benefits, medicines, tracking on long term life impacts, unending appointments and follow-ups, then new policy and advocacy and law to build off it all.

Science will purport to explain every variety of human differences and categorize and then place us all into some genetic predisposed hierarchical Bio-Human Matrix

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I am trying to imagine the psychiatric community coming up with first a diagnosis then a medication to treat quiet, thoughtful, conscientious, compliant children, i.e., introverts such as I was. I guess if it'$ a money maker, study it to "prove" there's something "wrong" with the children I described, then publish publish publish then hammer the parents to medicate the quiet -especially that- and thoughtfulness out of their kids? Nightmare dystopian.

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Social Non-Engagement Syndrome, Restless Self-Reflection Disorder, Authoritarianism Oppositional Induced Anxiety and Depression. Reflexive Cerebral Processing-Terseness Disease. ALL science-based terminology for the millions of layperson-consumers to comprehend and desire the marketing.

What great opportunities for Grants/Studies/Pharma/Medical Industrial work for Bio-Behavioral Modification to truly alter lives and society!

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Off and running with labeling lingo. ...When did you say the deadline was for grant applications for federal funding for studies? ...DOGE has been looking into NIH grants you say? So, has that well dried up? ...Well, for sure Pharma has something in the pipeline we can use. We can definitely cook things to suggest usefulness. We just gotta get us $ome $cratch around here. Who cares where it comes from? Maybe we can figure out an angle for DoD? Do you know anyone at BARDA? Any connections at ARPA-H?...

...Probably more than a grain of truth to the foregoing totally fictional line of thought... But what do I know?

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