#ableism and saneism cw

[pinkxcloudz]

"i'm using delusional in the right context, it's not like it's that serious"

DELUSIONAL DISORDER + SCHIZO SPECTRUM DISORDERS + TBI + MANY OTHERS

"calling someone a narcissist isn't ableist it's not a disability"

NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER

"sociopath/psychopath are just adjectives it's not like I'm hurting anyone"

ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER

"saying i'm ocd doesn't affect you it's just the way i act"

MOTHERFUCKING OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER

OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER

"i'm schizoposting lol it's just a joke"

SCHIZOPHRENIA

SCHIZOID PERSONALITY DISORDER

SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER

SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER

it's never just a joke, it's never an adjective. use a fucking thesaurus

[sonicattos]

i want you guys to know it’s a hot topic to call abuse “narcissism”

if you’re wondering why this is disgusting: narcissism is a personality disorder. and vilifying such a thing is extremely harmful and stigmatizes people who struggle with such a thing, which is also extremely ableist and dangerous. call it what it is. it’s abuse. verbal and emotional abuse. manipulation. belittling.

you don’t even have to be a ‘narcissist’ to be this way. abusive people exist. sorry you need to dehumanize them by labeling them as with a mental disorder (which shouldn’t be dehumanizing to have) because you can’t deal with the fact that human beings can become awful people. but don’t wrap others into this.

i do not have narcissism myself, but as someone within cluster b i too am affected. i have abusive people in my life that yes, have selfish tendencies, but wouldn’t call “narcissistic” because thats not how that works. again. i call it what it is. it’s abuse. full stop. stop armchair diagnosing for sympathy points.

[paranormeow7]

me when I see people using words like “narcissist”, “sociopath” “borderline” etc to describe any bad person they’ve ever met when I have friends actually suffering from cluster b disorders

[slugass]

oh my god are will still rewarding characters in the story for referring to the “killer” as a “psycho” god can we please stop beating this dead horse

psychosis does not automatically make you violent, most people with psychosis aren’t violent, and when they are it’s not literally just because Psychosis.

and even if it refers to psychopathy instead of psychosis, which are not the same thing, and this term’s vagueness makes it do absolutely nothing to dispell any confusion between the two terms…

psychopathy is not “being murderous and that’s it”. the negative aspects of it are not just “being murderous”. so even if it’s NOT stereotyping psychosis, it’s still flanderizing something complicated that’s also related to a complicated mental disorder (aspd).

can we potray mental illness-flanderizing language like this as a flaw more please

oh and btw this is a stuido making money off of this

[autie-hobbit]

Y'all, just because you aren't straight up saying the R-slur doesn't make the thing you're saying better.

"Are you special?" and "Are you slow?" are still fucking ableist as fuck, please stop saying them.

I see "Are you slow?" everywhere. Like, I mean, everywhere, And I'm really sick of it.

[kiruliom]

deranged

a flag for deranged from the minecraft mod "origins"

quick note: I know people cant always choose what they identify as/with in regards to alterhumanity, but Id heavily prefer if this was used exclusively by schizospec or otherwise "heavily disordered" people. I do not support this origin in particular but it does exist and is therefore a possible alterhuman identity, please keep that in mind.

meant for alterhuman/nonhumans

tagging @seasulfur and @specieschive

please do not reupload without permission and credit

[scenessystem]

The degree to which people say bad politics are caused by mental health issues is exhausting. People saying shit like "this person needs to be committed" is so angering. As a psychotic person who experiences delusions hearing people use those words as ad hominem attacks make me feel alienated and gross.

Just STOP, please, mentally ill people, including psychotic people, do not inherently have dangerous politics. We are not the ones doing mass violence, of course, some of us do, but the vast majority of people doing mass violence are not psychotic.

Mentally ill people can be dangerous, have shit politics, and be assholes. But so can people without any severe mental health issues.

Do not throw around the idea of institutionalized people, especially by force, if you don't get the problems mental health hospitals/units have. Do people not seem to understand the dark histories psychiatric facilities had, Not to mention the astonishing degree of violations, ableism, and violence people deemed "crazy" go through in psychiatric hospitals. Yes, we need facilities to give people higher levels of care. But being held against your will is traumatic. Being in underfunded/understaffed/under-regulated facilities is traumatic AF.

People who hear voices, people with dissociative disorders, delusional people, people with compulsions and all others considered crazy are not the real problem.

[luxdraconia]

i think i can speak for all of your mutuals here when i say this. commit already you narcissistic psychopath piece of shit.

womp womp

[fanby-fckry]

Ok, I had a whole post about why it’s fucked up to start calling Stella a narcissist as soon as we had solid proof she’s abusing Octavia, but it’s lost in my drafts and I just saw someone call Cash a narcissist so…

Narcissist is not a synonym for abuser and narcissistic abuse is not real!

I say this as someone abused by someone with NPD. Because guess what? I was also abused by multiple other neurodivergent people without NPD, but if I called that “autistic abuse” or “obsessive compulsive abuse” you’d rightfully be down my throat about being ableist.

Please point to me where Stella and Cash show symptoms of NPD. I’ll wait.

And no, Cash’s scapegoat/golden/forgotten child family structure does not count. That’s just regular ol’ child abuse stuff. I was the scapegoat for my non-NPD grandmother, I would know.

[foxy-aac]

Foxy AAC case supposed come today, excited

Foxy mother brought Foxy her tablet for use for AAC - she not use it and give to Foxy

Foxy use phone for AAC with her during dinner, was happy not judge Foxy

Usually 50/50 whether Foxy mother accept Foxy disability or judge Foxy for it, was very happy was accept Foxy

Still need finish set up tablet, but happy

Hopes case do well, can bring-use easier

Foxy mother know Foxy psychotic, is why need speak help

Grateful she trying to accommodate, even if not always do right

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DNI anti-endo/sysmeds, radqueer/transID, queerphobes, ableism, saneism, hostility

[slugass]

“it’s not psychotic and chaotic, it’s just boring”

…ok but what does “psychotic” mean to her?? her aesthetic is weird cutesy cute things… where’s the fucking “psychotic” part?? it’s just cute quirky colorful things!

PSYCHOSIS IS NOT A FUN CUTE AESTHETIC.

[tommyssupercoolblog]

I think for every view one of those stupid YouTube shorts where a schizophrenic person is the Dangerous Villain somehow gets, an actual schizophrenic person should get 100 dollars

[avpdvoidspace]

no matter how many of these kinds of videos I tell youtube "don't recommend this channel to me", I just keep getting this kind of video recommendations. Why. There's nothing even close to this I'm choosing to watch. But yeah, don't give these things a 'thumbs down', go to the little three dots by it and choose 'don't recommend this channel to me'.

[fanby-fckry]

Throwing this in the queue, because I don’t want it to look like I’m vagueing (technically I am, but this is also a general vent and psa).

I genuinely hate it when people say “delulu.” I think it dilutes the meaning of the word (both the butchered spelling and the way it trivializes delusions), and as someone with psychosis + delusions, it irks me to no end.

I’ve seen it used both in wildly inappropriate ways (e.g. people calling themselves delusional/delulu for shipping non-canon ships) and in technically correct ways that are just… Off. Ways that make me suspect the person using the word doesn’t actually understand what delusions are, and are pop psych-ing their blorbos with no research or lived experience.

For the record, I’m not knocking people who project their symptoms onto fictional characters or who reclaim ableist/saneist language, and because I cannot definitively tell who is projecting/reclaiming, and who is talking out of their ass, I would never call out anyone in particular.

I don’t support gatekeeping, censorship, or callout posts, which is why I’m posting like this rather than naming names or pettily reporting people for ableism/hate-speech when it’s likely they just don’t know any better, or that I’m the one missing context. And I know that trying to forcefully censor anything regarding marginalized groups is likely to come back around to bite the same group in the ass.

That being said, I am begging non-delusional people to please put some thought into the words that you use and the way you portray/talk about delusions in fiction and in daily life.

Content Warning: unreality/talk of specific delusions; if you suffer from delusions and find your symptoms worsen when hearing details of others’ delusions, I recommend scrolling.

I’ve struggled with delusions regarding “mind readers” for about as long as I can remember, often becoming extremely distressed by the idea that someone in the room could be reading my thoughts, to the point of creating mental mantras to distract/overwhelm potential mind readers and repeating them over and over again in my head, screaming them with my inner voice.

It’s gotten a lot better with time and therapy, but there was a time where I had persistent thoughts of, “what if somebody can hear this?” and spent 30+ minutes straight addressing potential mind readers via thoughts.

I took “thought crime” to the extreme. I genuinely believed that at any time, there could be someone who might hear my thoughts and judge/punish me for them.

I have a similar delusion that still plagues me to this fucking day, where I believe that anything I say out loud can be heard, even if I’m alone. Who hears it? That’s not specified. It’s some nebulous ‘someone,’ but for some reason, they terrify me. There are times where I physically cannot bring myself to speak because I’m afraid that the ‘someone’ will hear.

Being a crackshipper who understands that your ship will never be canon but likes to play pretend is in no way comparable to experiencing delusions. Trust me, I’ve got both!

I’d also like to talk about using “delulu” to refer to delusions of grandeur in fandom.

Disclaimer: I don’t have a whole lot of personal experience with delusions of grandeur (I experience some fleeting instances of grandiosity, but not really to the point that it significantly affects my life), so if I say anything inaccurate or insensitive, please, please feel free to correct me.

It feels like delusions of grandeur are highly misunderstood and trivialized even moreso than other types of delusions.

Having a skewed sense of self can cause major problems in a person’s social/interpersonal life, cause an increase in risk-taking behavior which can but their health and their life in danger, and is often the result of trauma. Yes, this includes delusions of grandeur!

If you’re calling your blorbo “delulu” for having a grandiose view of themselves, please take a moment to ask yourself how this trait affects them, and how your description of it might sound to the real life people reading it, especially if this isn’t your experience.

Again, I cannot stop you. Not without potentially hampering the ability of delusional people to talk about our symptoms, scaring off questioning and self-diagnosed folks, and inciting infighting. And even then, I don’t think it’d truly scrub every use of the word.

But at least think about what I’ve said here. Pretty please?

[expressionless-fr]

why.. why just why . Just WHY.

[saltiecattoz]

mom watching vid about dissociative identity disorder and when i walked in she said “i don’t know about this…” ??? why because you don’t have it?? girl if i told you what happens in my brain you’d sent me to a exorcist.