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> Nope, you are arguing against subjective diagnosis vs. objective diagnosis.
> 
You are confusing subjectivity with fantasy.  Just as in law courts you must 
first determine that a crime was committed before you go on to prove that 
someone did it, like that you must first show that a pathology exist before 
diagnosing it.  That is the part that is missing from the 'dyslexia' and ilk 
group 
of maladies.  There has never been any evidence that when a person has 
difficulty reading (which is what 'dyslexia' means 'dys - difficluty' 'lexia 
- 
reading') is suffering from any pathology objective or subjective or 
fantasized.

People do things differently from each other and some seem to do things with 
ease and some seem to strugle with it.  For the most part we ignore this and 
go on.  But if we make up a Greek or Latin word for it and instead of just 
viewing it as something a person does but rather say it is what they HAVE 
(like a 
cold or diabetes), this raises it to a whole new level and we can 
intsitutionalize it and make a living treating it.

Ever see people whip into a parallel parking space in one movement, and see 
another pull back and forth a dozen times and still park crooked two feet 
from 
the curb?  What if instead of just saying that they had 'difficulty parking', 
we made up a Graeco-Latin word for it, oh let's say, "dysestancionia"  --- 
'difficutly parking'.  And we say rather than they park with difficulty we 
say 
they HAVE dysestancionia.

Whole new ball game now.  It's something you HAVE like lice or athlete's foot.

The sky's the limit.

You're not inconsiderate, you HAVE dyslatrinocculia (difficulty putting down 
the toilet seat).

You not habitually late for appointments, you HAVE dyspunctotemporalia.

You aren't an idiot, you HAVE dyspensalrectoenteroterrae.  Sad case, that one.

Just an interesting aside, I find it kinda funny that an unschooler would buy 
into such a 'shoot from the hip' pseudo science.  Must be yet another case of 
dys..... oh, never mind.