We are way off the cliff of inappropriate conversations when we're:
* Attributing mental health conditions to hypothetical strangers
* Insinuating other commenters on HN have mental health conditions
* Impugning entire groups of people based on hypothetical mental health conditions.
That's before we reach the fact that the only reason we're talking about this particular mental health condition was the hypothetical that strangers, who we know nothing about, would be reporting sexual harassment incidents falsely because they might be suffering from that condition.
This is way past uncivil and inappropriate and we can't be having threads here that look like this, something I'm so sure of that I'll say so despite having no formal authority to do so.
You should feel free, where you're comfortable, to talk about your own struggles with mental health.
You should never be talking about someone else's. That's "taboo" for good reason. Threads where that happen invariably turn into insidious attacks not just on everyone purported to have whatever condition we're discussing, but, really, on everyone with mental health concerns of any sort.
I have no doubt you'll be able to generate 5 more paragraphs about how I've somehow missed some important aspect of what you're trying to say. Please, don't. I think Dan was right when he suggested you take a breath before continuing on this thread. Your posts are being flagged off the site for good reason.
Sorry, I assumed that a thread being detached for being off-topic meant that the off-topic discussion could continue. I'll stop if that's not the case and will take note accordingly. I'd appreciate a lift of the posting time limit too. I'll just play safe and avoid any sort of contentious posting going forward. Argument isn't the main reason I come to HN, after all.
