Бархат means Velvet

no diagnostic material is god

it is an approximation of what is going on when mental/psychological issues crop up to the best of our human ability--which is constantly evolving along with our knowledge--filtered through the perspective of societal standards and norms of the region the publishers and researchers live and/or work in

diagnostic materials identify commonly co-occurring clusters of symptoms, trends of their causes, and recommended treatment practices, and allow you to bill insurance on the basis of a particular diagnosis or treatment goal

and ultimately, a non-zero amount of what ends up in published diagnostic materials around the world is going to just be flat-out incorrect.

it may be poorly studied or substantiated, or it ended up there because of someone's political/ideological agenda, or it'll be somewhat right but with the wrong ideas about treatment

but it is a *guide*. not a holy text.

and the people who put it together have ideas about what a mentally healthy or mentally normative person looks like--meaning that their biases will color their work EVEN IF they are working to acknowledge or avoid them.

we are not going to pull back the fabric of the universe and find that people diagnosed with autism are branded on their souls with "autistic"

you're not going to get brownie points at the end of life because you labeled yourself or someone else "correctly"

there's great likelihood that even objective states of mental illness will change in experience and presentation as the human race continues to grow and evolve over time! what we think we know with such certainty today can be definitively disproved tomorrow!

the DSM and other diagnostic materials are not all-knowing, they are not divinely inspired, they are not infallible.

I mean you're going to have to ask my partner but potentially!