I agree with you in spirit, but I think your argument for why design patterns aren't present in functional languages can also be used to argue that there are no design patterns in object oriented languages, just by replacing the word "function" with the word "object". Witness:

Thinking that objects are special is contrary to the spirit of object-oriented programming. Objects and numbers are the same class of citizens, and a method taking an object should not be treated differently from one that takes a number.

Would you also argue that there are no (or very few) design patterns in object oriented languages?