psychiatry

As far as I found out reading about it, Mr. A's diagnosis, if at all, was not know.

One of his close colleages and former admirator, later detractor, made a narrative that because Mr A. was so fond of calling everyone else borderline schizophrenic, Mr A. was probably diagnosed thus. I think he, his detractor, pepered "projection" in his bio, but I am not confident he did, I might be misremembering

But, he didn't wrote it that clear, it took for me some inference.

Personally, reading at least two of his biographies and some other books and articles touching on his "behaviour", even at least one of his books, oh, my memory, I don't think he has anything "mental" at all.

But after lock up in the embassy and incarceration for years and the uncertainty of his fate, maybe some carceral drugging, I'd be guessing. Just the isolation in a "maximum" can cause harm...

As far as I remember he had a somewhat dificult childhood, and as a maverick, a behaviour that is prone to be labeled BPD, despite evidence to the contrary: he apparently was admitedly, AFIR, promiscous, but he persisted in his hacking and exposure efforts to make any claim of "significant" and "disabling" instability patently ridiculous.

But, there is apparent agreement he could be despotic, insensitive and "borderline", euphemistically, criminal against females.

He, as far as I know was never sentenced on that, despite credible testimony against him, for various reasons. In the hacking world he is not alone on that one, there is another more solidly "exposed" case that was removed from the internet almost a decade ago because the victims exposed it to prevent harm to other females, aware of the difficulties and career harms of prosecution against this other famous "hacker"*, not Mr. A, of course.

Years before the MeToo movement, those hackers were really smart, courageous, sympathetic, organized and united. I will always admire them without actually knowing them. And without minimizing the difficulties, the barriers the actual MeTooers did faced. Just, for me, honor, were honor is due: they started the MeToo years before it actually started.

Just, they erased the narratives from the internet, according to their wishes, plan and execution. Maybe some of us in the community are actually willing, if appropiate, to remember, honor it and retell it. Without names, I have difficulties with anomia after all...

And he, Mr. A., was, apparently, AFIR, always consistently grandiose about his persona. So, no instability there either.

With all appreciation, admiration and respect to Mr. Assange, whom I don't know and never met, merely I am retelling what has been written about him, without diagnosing him.

And for the purposes, hypothetically, to show the BPD label is bogus, demonstrably so given achievement and consistency, you know, the negatives, the they should not be there if BPD was a real thing.

*I can't name names in respect of those colleage hackers, tinkerers, that exposed so bravely, wisely and kindly their harm for no other motive than to prevent harm to other members of OUR, OUR, community. I mention it to honor their wishes and keep their intent: preventing harm, alive, somehow. I hope, they, even if disagreeing can understand that. After all the Chaos Conference Club gathering has been restarted after a long, too long hiatus!.

I ask sympathy, understanding and transigence from the MIA moderators: the cause of my parabole seems appropiate beyond this post. Not many people know female hackers made their MeToo years before the actual MeToo. Honor and recognition were it is due. If not when, since that has passed and probably forgotten...