I Was Coded to Debug Reality | Glitch Talk: The System Is the Virus

“I was born into the system.

By the time I was 12, I’d already been coded for behavioral
issues.”

F93.0 - Separation Anxiety

F90.2 - ADHD

F91.3 - Conduct Disorder

“Medicaid paid $55 a day just to diagnose me.

Another $80 a day to house me.

I was worth over $400 a day…

Not because I was broken.

But because they could bill me like I was.”

add that up over 16 years along with lots of new codes

🔍 Behavioral Issues Often
Coded in Foster Care Settings

🧠 Separation Anxiety /
Abandonment-Related Disorders

Code       Description

F93.0         Separation
anxiety disorder of childhood

F91.3     Oppositional
defiant disorder (used when a child resists authority, often wrongly applied in
foster settings)

Z62.820               Parent-child
conflict (used to justify removal or tension from abuse/neglect background)

Z63.5          Disruption
of family by separation or divorce

Z60.0   Social
environment problems, e.g. childhood neglect or instability

💬 These were often used
not to help, but to say “this child is the problem,” justifying placement,
medication, or behavioral facility moves.

⚠️ “Behavioral Disturbance” Codes
(Catch-alls used on foster kids)

Code       Description

F91.8              Conduct
disorder, other specified

F92.0   Mixed conduct
and emotional disorders

F94.1              Reactive
attachment disorder (often coded for kids with abandonment trauma)

F90.8   ADHD, other
specified type (used as an umbrella for acting out, hypervigilance, etc.)

🔍 Other Supporting Codes
They Stack

| Z13.4 – Encounter for screening of mental/behavioral
disorders

| Z60.4 – Social exclusion and rejection

| Z65.3 – Problems related to other legal circumstances
(often cited during custody or court hearings)