Is ILP ODD?
- Yes
- No
mentalhealth.com/icd/p22-ch05.html
ODD (not to be confused with ADHD or variants, though apparently the two sets of letters are written on the foreheads of the same children) is a condition which affects children up to 10 years of age (ILP is just over 4 years old in its present form) and is characterised by something beyond misbehaviour but before the descent into serious violence and other “more severe dissocial or aggressive acts that violate the law or the rights of others”. Back in the olden days they’d have just branded such children ‘naughty’ or perhaps diagnose demonic possession (the most likely explanation if you ask me), either way a course of beatings and leeches would usually suffice to kill the child or at least render them so weak than ODD or no ODD they wouldn’t be bothering anyone.
Does ILP displays the symptoms? I read on:
“Children with this disorder tend frequently and actively to defy adult requests or rules and deliberately to annoy other people. Usually they tend to be angry, resentful, and easily annoyed by other people whom they blame for their own mistakes or difficulties.”
I can only think of about 3 posters who don’t do this. And one of those left a few weeks ago.
“They generally have a low frustration tolerance and readily lose their temper. Typically, their defiance has a provocative quality, so that they initiate confrontations and generally exhibit excessive levels of rudeness, uncooperativeness, and resistance to authority.”
Yep, sounds about right.
“Frequently, this behaviour is most evident in interactions with adults or peers whom the child knows well, and signs of the disorder may not be evident during a clinical interview.”
Now I’ve never conducted a clinical interview with ILP as a whole but I imagine if one could and did do such a thing that one would see the described result.
“The key distinction from other types of conduct disorder is the absence of behaviour that violates the law and the basic rights of others, such as theft, cruelty, bullying, assault, and destructiveness. The definite presence of any of the above would exclude the diagnosis.”
As far as I know no-one has ever been subject to theft or assault, though one could make an argument for the others.
So the question remains, is ILP ODD?
