Note from the lead moderator: We discussed a potential change to the post title, but no participants in the discussion thought that doing so was the right move.
I personally found the title confusing and annoying for some of the reasons others have mentioned, but titles don’t have to help the author’s case (or even make sense).
If a claim that someone had been diagnosed with a developmental disorder were being applied with no evidence to someone other than a public figure, it would clearly run afoul of our rules. But in this case, I don’t think that whatever harm is done by confusion and the potential misuse of a medical term overrides a strong prior of “people can name posts what they want, and commentators can react as they see fit”.*
I’m glad that the author added further explanation since this comment was made. In the future, I hope that Forum users will routinely back up controversial claims in their titles.
*I will sometimes change a post title if there’s a clear mistake I think the author would want reversed (e.g. a misspelled word or misplaced punctuation mark), or if the title is visually awkward (e.g. written in all caps or written LiKe tHiS).
Note from the lead moderator: We discussed a potential change to the post title, but no participants in the discussion thought that doing so was the right move.
I personally found the title confusing and annoying for some of the reasons others have mentioned, but titles don’t have to help the author’s case (or even make sense).
If a claim that someone had been diagnosed with a developmental disorder were being applied with no evidence to someone other than a public figure, it would clearly run afoul of our rules. But in this case, I don’t think that whatever harm is done by confusion and the potential misuse of a medical term overrides a strong prior of “people can name posts what they want, and commentators can react as they see fit”.*
I’m glad that the author added further explanation since this comment was made. In the future, I hope that Forum users will routinely back up controversial claims in their titles.
*I will sometimes change a post title if there’s a clear mistake I think the author would want reversed (e.g. a misspelled word or misplaced punctuation mark), or if the title is visually awkward (e.g. written in all caps or written LiKe tHiS).
Thanks and apologies for the confusion created.
Thanks to Aaron for updating us, and thanks guzey for adding the clarification in the head of the post.