&gt; whether or not psychiatrists accurately apply diagnosis criteria is a different matter to arguing that &quot;to avoid one or another mental illness diagnosis, [...] you can&#x27;t be extraordinary in any way&quot;.<p>But that happens to be true and easily verified. If you&#x27;re bright, you&#x27;re assured of the Asperger&#x27;s diagnosis unless you insist on avoiding the company of psychologists, increasingly difficult in modern times. If you&#x27;re gay, it was the same thing -- until the public demanded that psychologists stop handing out mental illness diagnoses to gay people.<p>The history of psychology is punctuated with examples in which obviously appropriate behavior was falsely labeled as evidence of disease, including the infamous example of &quot;drapetomania&quot; -- slaves who ran away from their masters were obviously mentally broken and in need of professional help to reunite them with their owners.<p>Psychologists don&#x27;t wait for people to appear and ask for help -- they issue press releases announcing the discovery of yet another imaginary ailment from which many are claimed to be suffering in silence. Example:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.psychologytoday.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;mental-wealth&#x2F;201207&#x2F;electronic-screen-syndrome-unrecognized-disorder" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.psychologytoday.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;mental-wealth&#x2F;201207&#x2F;el...</a>