Posted on 11/20/2016 9:47:06 AM PST by ColdOne
Yes, I agree. I can understand finishing out the school year in NYC, but then I think they should move to DC.
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While this may explain the aspergian point of view towards this boy, you need to understand that your speculation lacks empathy towards the entire Trump family. Why stigmatize him, to what goal? Realize, that if you were a psychiatrist, these type of comments of cyber psychoanalysis could easily be considered litigious. They are banned, by the APA, thanks to Republican Barry Goldwater!
All of the Trumps have become public figures, including the 9 kids to a lesser extent. Adult relatives and especially these minor children should not be subjected to unsolicited unprofessional intellectually dishonest diagnoses from afar. It would be unfortunate if this forum becomes the original source of this nonsense, so hopefully it has ended.
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Psychiatrists are not allowed to offer their opinion on Trump or Clinton. (Likewise, psychoanalyzing their family members for public consumption is prohibited.)
It’s election season, which means everyone is looking for ways to tie their own interests and expertise to the candidates and their policies. Everyone except the American Psychiatric Association, that is. The professional group, which represents more than 35,000 practicing psychiatrists has a policy that bans members from commenting on the mental status of people they haven’t personally diagnosed....
“The unique atmosphere of this year’s election cycle may lead some to want to psychoanalyze the candidates, but to do so would not only be unethical, it would be irresponsible,” her statement reads.
“We live in an age where information on a given individual is easier to access and more abundant than ever before, particularly if that person happens to be a public figure. With that in mind, I can understand the desire to get inside the mind of a Presidential candidate. I can also understand how a patient might feel if they saw their doctor offering an uninformed medical opinion on someone they have never examined. A patient who sees that might lose confidence in their doctor, and would likely feel stigmatized by language painting a candidate with a mental disorder (real or perceived) as ‘unfit’ or ‘unworthy’ to assume the Presidency.”
It’s also “intellectually dishonest for a mental health professional — or any physician — to give a diagnosis without examining the patient,” as the psychiatrist Richard A. Friedman argued in The NYT. And such armchair diagnoses could be used as “a political weapon to denigrate an opponent,” he added.
In other words, diagnosing public figures from afar is both unscientific and potentially stigmatizing. But the policy isn’t just about being fair to patients (and the profession as a whole). It’s actually the result of a messy situation — lawsuits and all — that took place during an election more than a half century ago.
In 1964, a magazine asked 12,000 psychiatrists what they thought of then-candidate Barry Goldwater and turned it into a story headlined “FACT: 1,189 Psychiatrists Say Goldwater is Psychologically Unfit to Be President.” (Nevermind the FACT that the vast majority of surveyed psychiatrists did not respond.) Goldwater later successfully sued, and the American Psychiatric Association in 1973 created a rule to try to prevent a similar situation reoccurring.
The rule reads: “On occasion psychiatrists are asked for an opinion about an individual who is in the light of public attention or who has disclosed information about himself/herself through public media. In such circumstances, a psychiatrist may share with the public his or her expertise about psychiatric issues in general. However, it is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/does-trump-have-a-psychiatric-diagnosis-mental-illness-2016-8
...and that's how ugly rumors get started, a label that may stick to him for the rest of his life, regardless of validity.
Expressing one's opinion is fine. Doing so in a condescending manner is unnecessary.
Exactly. That’s my argument. And I know people who interact with the family. No one has ever mentioned this. And if someone’s child was in that spectrum, let’s say it’s Chelsea Clinton’s kid, whom does it benefit to speculate and spread such a rumor.
There’s more to this story. Due to DJT’s public statements regarding vaccines and autism, there are those that likely expect DJT to help increase funding for autism research. They would be very pleased for his child or grandchild to be labelled autistic since they presume it would lead to greater funding. The only real tie that I have found to DJT and autism is when the Trump Foundation donated 10K in 2010 to an anti-vaccine charity run by television host Jenny McCarthy.
Wow, they sure look a great deal alike.
Very soon, young Barron will need his SS bodyguards to keep the love-struck girls away. Poor lad.
Check out photo at # 105.
He’s a little cutie pie. So is his son. ;)
Very soon, young Barron will need his SS bodyguards to keep the love-struck girls away. Poor lad.
What a cutie! It's good they aren't changing his school mid-term. Makes it easier on the child. I recognize a lot of children don't have the same choice when their parents have to move. Life isn't always fair.
Candidates children should be off-limits. Isn't that what Clintons and 0bamas told us?
hahaha
Very good!
Sounds like it should be their call.
Plus, doesn’t Melania have a business of her own to run?
Funny. The White House is ‘government housing’ for Trump.
Absolutely, Hillary was very protective of Chelsea. In fact, we would see her only sparingly when she travelled with her parents on occasion. She is barely recognizable as that teenager today.
I envision the Trumps spending short weeks in NYC and flying to Mar-a-Lago for extended weekends. Both residences can accommodate a large number of guests and his entire administration and USSS.
Destiny- And it ironic that when Marjorie Post died in 1973, she left her 128-room home, Mar-a-Lago to the U.S. government to serve as a -—Winter White House.
But after evaluating the property, the administration of President Jimmy Carter returned it to the Post Foundation.
(Mrs. Post was of Post Cereals family married to E.F. Hutton.) Carter Administrators were daunted by the cost of the upkeep (Idiot Carter -the fool). Trump bought the property in 1985 for 10 million -his original offer was 28 million!
Trump converted the mansion to a private club and residence. He’s added a swimming pool, a beach club, beauty salon, spa, five red clay tennis courts, and a croquet court. A ballroom completed in 2005 added 20,000 square feet to the mansion.
This story is a good read on the history and significance of the estate and the wily ways of DJT acquiring such a grand property.
http://americacomesalive.com/2016/04/14/mar-lago-winter-white-house/
Awwww.
:)
That is precious.
Great pic!
Foolish, home school him, too dangerous otherwise, I don’t get it, normal life is not an option for them anymore (well normal for them anyway)
Would you like to translate that?
In the DC area is a Marjorie Meriwether Post home, now a museum, and open for public viewing. All original, and truly beautiful.
As I recall, she is buried on the grounds.
On election night/morning, was it not 3:00 AM when the young lad was on stage. How normal are 10 year olds at 3:00 AM?
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