Social media personalities have popularized the notion that knowing and loving oneself can be achieved by reaching into a grab-bag of mental health diagnoses and neurodivergent labels. But what do we lose in a world in which people view themselves and others through labels and diagnoses rather than personality and relationships? Hunter and Autumn discuss the article “Nobody has a Personality Anymore.” In this article, Freya India, a young journalist from the UK, posits that the tendency to label and diagnose differences that would have been ascribed to “personality” in previous generations leaves young people dissatisfied and stuck.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

“Nobody Has a Personality Anymore” by Freya India

Silas Marner by George Eliot