pathologizing errant/unusual human behavior

It is ironic that we are the top of the food chain, because humans display a great deal of herd behavior, socially. We prefer our own kind, generally, and we police each other into acceptable behavior (Michel Foucault's Panopticon). When a person acts differently than the rest, we stare / alert each other / gossip or make movies and write blogs about aberrant behavior. We pay therapists to listen to why we are different, whose fault it is (parents or playground chums). We pay corporations for tiny pills to keep ourselves more like everyone else. A massive machinery is in place to promote, support, research and develop more tiny pills to modify the way we act.

Here is my (offensive*) perspective:

• There is nothing *wrong* with people with autism; we need highly focused people to singlemindedly devote themselves to research and development.

• "Bi-polar" is a negative term for the very human hair-trigger attention span that allows us to respond to stimuli around us. It's actually a survival mechanism. All those people zoning out in front of the television? Zombies. Palliated into submission by mind-numbing work which we/they agree to in pursuit of fancy driveable things and pretty places to live. We are all just such animals. We need food, shelter, sex and play.

• (why are those last two so often ignored or left off the list or considered indulgences or luxuries? My life approach: play FIRST, then work.)

  
  **I know this will offend some of you ;) That's what opinions are for!