> ODD is defined as a “a pattern of negativistic, hostile, and defiant behavior without the more serious violations of the basic rights of others that are seen in conduct disorder”; and ODD symptoms include “often actively defies or refuses to comply with adult requests or rules” and “often argues with adults.”
This is presented as enough to diagnose the disorder. If you have a look at the full list, you can see why it's a disorder.
But you didn't. Probably because you're just anti-authoritarian, but not all the long list of other issues associated with the condition.
Einstein was justifiably anti-authoritarian because he actually was a genius but he also wasn't pathologically so. The author drawing a this comparison belies his own belief that he himself is smarter than all of those authorities which justifies his behavior. Which is actually a symptom.
> Often blames others for their own mistakes or misbehavior.
> But you didn't. Probably because you're just anti-authoritarian, but not all the long list of other issues associated with the condition.
It's actually not that long of a list[1]. You only need to have 4 symptoms out of 8 to qualify as "clinically" ODD, and the "symptoms" are literally just being unpalatable to those around you. Here are 4 of the symptoms that can get you diagnosed as ODD, straight from the DSM 5:
1) Is often touchy or easily annoyed
2) Is often angry and resentful
3) Often argues with authority figures or, for children and adolescents, with adults
4) Often deliberately annoys others
I don't know about you, but I can blaze through all those in a 10-minute webex call with a "scrum master"... and the DSM just requires (for someone 5 years or older) them to have happened *once a week* for at least 6 months.
Very tellingly, the second major criteria is:
> The disturbance in behavior is associated with distress in the individual or others in his or her immediate social context (e.g., family, peer group, work colleagues) or it impacts negatively on social, educational, occupational, or other important areas of functioning,
So literally whether it bothers you - OR - people around you. There's a reason that the vast majority of ADHD and ODD diagnoses occur as a result of school requests, not from parents.
Telling that there's not an Authoritarian Defiant Disorder, for those teachers who are particularly disagreeably unreasonably authoritarian. Surely everyone has had at least one of those.
Mine was an English teacher. I realized by the second class that I needed to transfer out of his course. The school administrators were completely unsurprised by my request. It seems that I was just one among many who had done the same thing.
If a student is troublesome in school, troublesome enough to warrant the BH referral, better take a good look at the home life and their social-environmental factors.
Or just blame, diagnose and medicate them. Only then shall they be better equipped to accept and obey authority figures.
> ODD is defined as a “a pattern of negativistic, hostile, and defiant behavior without the more serious violations of the basic rights of others that are seen in conduct disorder”; and ODD symptoms include “often actively defies or refuses to comply with adult requests or rules” and “often argues with adults.”
This is presented as enough to diagnose the disorder. If you have a look at the full list, you can see why it's a disorder.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/oppositional-...
> I personally almost got an ODD diagnosis,
But you didn't. Probably because you're just anti-authoritarian, but not all the long list of other issues associated with the condition.
Einstein was justifiably anti-authoritarian because he actually was a genius but he also wasn't pathologically so. The author drawing a this comparison belies his own belief that he himself is smarter than all of those authorities which justifies his behavior. Which is actually a symptom.
> Often blames others for their own mistakes or misbehavior.