Klein refuses to let a brief diagnostic label define her child permanently

Evidence

Because time marches on, even when you have fallen down a rabbit hole, T. turned ten recently; by the time these words enter the world, he will be eleven. From the start, I made a conscious decision in my work neither to describe raising a neurodivergent kid in any detail nor to discuss the merits of the labels that a doctor, who spent two hours with him, chose for him when he was four. A bit like a personal brand, defining T. in those ways would fix him at a single point in time and through the eyes of others. The decision about when (and if) to share his private world are T.’s to make. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 633

Categorization

• QUESTION: This refusal to define T. by his labels mirrors a broader method question: does Klein’s own framing risk fixing people at single points in time, even while critiquing how the right does the same to her?