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This is a redo because the first time I accidentally messed up the poll answers

* professional relationship as in business & client, employer & employee

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If you don't stim, don't vote!

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I forgot to put a "no my therapist has never done any of these" option 😭

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These are all signs of an unprofessional and/or manipulative therapist.

If you're thinking "I thiiiink my therapist did this but I'm not sure?" then you can still click that option anyways.

Click under here for better explanations if you want them. Most I feel are self-explanatory, but some I had to make more vague to fit in the poll options.

"plans sessions in public or approaches you in public"

It's common for a therapist to set up a small plan with their client if they see eachother in public. "Is it okay to smile and wave or would you prefer we pretend like we don't know eachother?" This is for both safety and boundary reasons. This poll option talks about a therapist having a therapy session with you in a public space, approaching you in public, talking about what goes on in your sessions if they do approach you in public, or otherwise not being careful about your confidentiality. This is unprofessional.

"persistently urge you to cut off people, quit a job, other huge decisions"

If someone or something is causing you discomfort, a therapist may ask if you think leaving that situation would be best. But if you say no then the best the therapist can do is help you come up with a plan to stay as safe as possible during the uncomfortable situations. This poll option is talking about a therapist persistently urging you to make these large decisions. You might come into a session being asked "so did you do it yet?" or pretend you previously agreed to making a decision despite making it clear in the session before that you weren't interested. This is also talking about a therapist refusing to talk about anything else until you obey their orders. This is unprofessional.

"acts as aggressive authority over your health/goals/symptoms rather than a guide"

This poll option is talking about a therapist who tells you what you must be feeling rather than asking if that's what you're feeling. It's talking about a therapist deciding goals for you and not allowing you to disagree or make changes, as well as the therapist accusing you of lying about your own emotions and experiences. It's common for a therapist to make suggestions and even re-explain why they feel like their suggestion is a good idea if you are unsure, but a therapist should not try to gain authority over your body and mind.

"doesn't help you after a rough session, knowingly lets you leave in a bad state"

Therapists will usually set aside a few minutes at the end of a particularly heavy session to practice techniques with you that'll calm you down. It is up to you to be clear if you are dissociating, suicidal, or in a bad state, but it is also up to the therapist to make sure they don't send you off is they think you may be unsafe. This poll option is talking about a therapist who doesn't make sure you're okay at the end of a particularly heavy session, brushes you off when you ask for grounding techniques at the end of sessions, or asks heavy questions/gets into heavy topics when you've been clear you can not emotionally handle it that day.

"denies your feedback, excuses your lack of progress, ignores issues"

Sometimes a therapist may struggle to understand your feedback or may be shocked to hear that the sessiond aren't going as well as they thought it was going. That is okay. This poll option is talking about telling your therapist that you don't feel like the therapy is working very well, and your therapist immediately tries to convince you otherwise rather than listening to your concerns. They may share artificial "proof" that you're feeling better ("you came in smiling", "you're laughing more") while ignoring your serious concerns on the negative effects or lack of any effects their therapy is having on you. This is unprofessional.

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Autistic people, are you polyamorous/ethically nonmonogamous?

1. Autistic and polyam/ENM

2. Autistic and monogamous

3. Autistic and agamous/nonpartnering

4. Autistic and something else

(possible nuance/result option im forgetting)

*sometimes a couple may be monogamous a majority of the time, but may have planned exceptions for outside sexual or romantic dating/partnering

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all neurodivergant and mentally ill people please respond!

A good chunk of disorders and disorder categories have on-going debates in the field of psychology. As the ND community, we tend to pressure eachother to all follow the same theories and are discouraged from finding multiple theories plausible.

Do you believe that every disorder should have one singular definition of symptoms and one singular explanation? Do you think there is room exceptions to a disorder or should any exception count as a separate disorder? There are often categories for people who have a disorder but experience it in an atypical way. Do you think these people shouldn't voice their experiences as much as those with the typical symptoms?

I'll shorten these into two questions, actually.

Do you believe diagnoses to be a tangible fact of reality or just the closest possible description of & explanation for someone's symptoms?

Do you believe our community would benefit from enforcing a unanimous definition for each disorder or would it be better for definitions to remain loose and flexible?

Poll answers:

Diagnoses are a fact of reality; each diagnoses should have a unanimous definitions

Diagnoses are a fact of reality; diagnosis definitions should be loose and flexible

Diagnoses are a fact of reality; I have another idea for diagnosis definitions

Diagnoses are a theorized explanation; diagnoses should have a unanimous definition

Diagnoses are a theorized explanation; disgnoses should be loose and flexible

Diagnoses are a theorized explanation; I have another idea for diagnosis definitions

I have another idea for what a diagnosis is; definitions should be loose and flexible

I have another idea for what a diagnosis is; defintions should be unanimous

I have another ides for what a disgnosis is and how to define them

Results

Okay let me try to word this in a simple way bc this is very long!

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a blog for polls for people with AvPD or AvPD traits. anyone may submit a poll but only people with AvPD or AvPD traits may answer.

inspired by @npd-polls @szpd-polls and @bpd-polls

polls are limited to 12 options and 80 characters per option. if a submitted poll includes an option for those without AvPD it will be omitted. i would prefer if submissions did not include a "see results" option, you can wait for the poll to end to see the results if it doesn't apply to you. "see results" options sometimes heavily skew the results and i don't want to have a poll where most of the answers are just people who want to see the results.

this blog supports people with any and all PDs, including cluster B PDs. asks that contain wording such as "narcissistic abuse" or that otherwise demonize any disorders will be deleted. asks misusing words like "narcissist", "delusional", "sociopath", etc. will also be deleted.

i reserve the right to reword given options to be more inclusive of queer people, including but not limited to polyam, aro, and ace folks.

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Is it okay to send in polls about current discourse happening within the feild of psychology amongst professionals? I'd like to know what actual neurodivergant people think about these discourses!

Go ahead!!

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for those with personality disorders that aren't cluster B. do you ever wish your cluster had the same levels of attention as cluster B? not nessecarily the same type of attention (theyre very stigmstized), but just that more people knew about your cluster?

yes

unsure

no, I don't want it to be well-known

no, I already think it's well-known

results / non-pd

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Here's a poll. Autistic people; do you see the way you interact/view the world as the logical way to interact/view it? As in, do you feel like the world (not just autistic people) would fair better if everyone had the same social/boundary preferences as you and communicated them the same way as you do?

Yes, the autistic way would be healthier for allistics

Yes, the autistic way could really benefit allistics in some aspects

Yes, but because of the therapy I've gone through and not because I'm autistic

Yes, but for another reason and not because I'm autistic

Unsure

No, it might be helpful but they ultimately know themselved best

No, something thats healthy/natural for autistic could feel unhealthy/unnatural for allistics

Results / not autistic

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Autistic people, how old were you when you were diagnosed?

▪︎ 3 or younger

▪︎ 4-7

▪︎ 8-12

▪︎ 13-17

▪︎ 18-24

▪︎ 25+

▪︎ Undiagnosed/self-diagnosed/peer-reviewed

▪︎ Other (?)

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level 1/low support needs autistics, do you consider yourself an aspie?

-yes (originally diagnosed w/ Asperger’s)

-no (originally diagnosed w/ Asperger’s)

-yes (never diagnosed w/ Asperger’s)

-no (never diagnosed w/ Asperger’s)

-not applicable / results

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bpd havers, is it ur only personality disorder?

-yes

-no, I have another cluster B disorder(s)

-no, I have a cluster A disorder(s)

-no, I have a cluster C disorder(s)

-no, I have multiple from different clusters

-not applicable / results

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if you're self diagnosed, do you want a professional diagnosis? and if you're professionally diagnosed, are you glad you got a professional diagnosis? (if you have multiple disorders, vote based on whichever one has the most interesting answer)

self dx, want a professional diagnosis

self dx, don't want a professional diagnosis

self dx, unsure if i want a professional diagnosis/feel neutral about it

professionally diagnosed, glad about it

professionally diagnosed, wish i wasn't

professionally diagnosed, unsure how i feel/neutral opinion

nuance/it's complicated/some answer i didn't include

see results button

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Autistic people: what's the empathy sitch?

I have no empathy

I have low, but still some, empathy

I have (to the best of my knowledge) typical empathy

I have high empathy

I have high/typical empathy in some situations and low/no empathy in others (ie, feel empathy for animals but not people, only feel empathy in fictional situations, etc)

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autistic people, do you have adhd?

adhd people, are you autistic?

-I’m autistic but I don’t have adhd

-I have adhd but not autism

-I have both

-result

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Anyone else with ocd or moral-based intrusive thoughts, do you guys gets any of these ones that I get?

What if this bathroom is a hallucination and I'm actually pissing my pants in public?

What if I zone out and start jerking off by accident? (In public)

What if I didnt wipe my ass well enough and everyone can smell me?

What if I'm actually a [evil person] who's in deep denial?

What if theyre social cueing at me that I'm creeping them out and I dont know?

What if this phrase has a secret sexual meaning that I dont know about?

What if theres a mindreader and theyre judging my intrusive thoughts?

What if I accidentally stutter and say a slur

What if I did something terrible and just don't remember?

Ok thanks byyyyeee