Indeed! I&#x27;ve been able to compare friends with similar issues either deal with them as a problem to fix or suppress (therapy, medication, etc.), or as a &#x27;weird, but functional&#x27; state to &#x27;live with&#x27;. The latter, assuming they were functional enough and assuming they found a place, social group and general environment where their &#x27;issues&#x27; were accepted, <i>always</i> were much better off.<p>That&#x27;s not an argument to avoid therapy or medication, far from it, but at the very least it&#x27;s should make one pause and think about finding a balance between &#x27;fixing the person with the issues to fit in his current environment&#x27; and &#x27;finding an environment&#x2F;approach for that person to be happy <i>with</i> their issues&#x27;. Too often I feel that we err on the side of &#x27;fixing&#x27;.<p>It reminds me a bit of the way bloodletting was once a solution to many things. Turns out that it often made things worse, and only in specific cases actually helps. Let&#x27;s try to not make that same mistake.<p>(Also, more recently I&#x27;ve experienced this phenomenon personally, and I notice the same thing. The more I focus on &#x27;fixing&#x27; or &#x27;fitting in&#x27;, the worse I&#x27;m off and the worse my problems are. On the other hand, the more I focus on finding a way to be accepted as I am, the better I am able to actually counteract my problems&#x27;)