Aggressive independent disorder

Aggressive independent disorder (AID) is a general social disorder of personality characterized by aCategory:Psychiatric disorders in Terran intense fixation with achieving self-sufficiency and emotionally immature aggression in expression of such desire. Persons diagnosed with AID tend to be utterly disrespectful toward those who try to assist them in their everyday lives.
== SymptomsCategory:Terran psychiatry ==
The exact symptoms of this disorder vary by patient as each person is unique. However, some common symptoms include:
* refusal to request assistance, even when necessary or convenient (e.g. carrying heavy groceries into a car, picking up a dropped pen)
* hostile rejection of assistance (e.g. "Do you need help carrying your backpack?" "NO, you jerk!" s/he shouts back.; refusing to answer offers of assistance; pouting or sulking; exhibiting passive hostility)
* feelings of inadequacy, victimization, and oppression; claims of condescension
== Causes ==
A person with aggressive independent disorder has a psychological need to feel that he/she is in control over his/her own life and therefore rejects what he/she considers intrusion by others. Because AID is common in persons with physical impairments, it is believed that the classification of people as normal or disabled and the consequent discrimination causes many persons to consider themselves somewhat devalued by others, and they thus attempt to prove themselves equal to other human beings.
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