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Is it sad that kids are learning to label personality quirks as psychological disorders?

I brought my 14 year old grandson in to do some yard work, for which he was paid. He stayed for dinner.
After dinner I went looking through our movies for an appropriate movie, and settled on “Turner and Hooch.”
I pointed out that the opening scenes were to show that Turner’s character was really meticulous and fussy (setting the stage for the disaster named Hooch who was going to blast into his life soon.)
My grandson said “So basically he’s OCD.”
I said “No. Just a very meticulous person. Your dad is pretty meticulous too. So is Grandpa. I wouldn’t call them OCD.”
I don’t know if he even knows what OCD stands for.

It just kind of saddened me.

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