#avpd + adhd

[avpdcultureis]

audhd avpd culture is talking about your interests as an emotional bid for engagement and when no one acknowledges you (or worse, someone tells you you're being annoying) you go into a depressive funk. and on the rare occasion someone does show interest in your interests you're too nervous to interact back :(

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[ppd-culture-is]

Stop saying differently abled when you mean disabled.

Stop saying gifted burnt out kid when you mean disabled.

Stop saying the c-slur when you mean disabled.

Stop saying 'super power' when you mean disabled.

Stop saying senile when you mean disabled.

Stop saying special needs when you mean needs for someone who is disabled.

Start saying disabled when you mean disabled.

Disability isn't, nor will it ever be, a dirty word. The only reason you think it's dirty is because you walked on it with muddy shoes.

[dailydivergent]

Neurodivergent reminder: Overstimulation feels a lot like anxiety, and understimulation feels a lot like depression.

More importantly, you don't need to know which it is to practice self-care.

Self-caring anxiety and overstimulation looks the same:

Recognize you're feeling big feelings

Take as many deep breaths as your need to slow your mind

Identify what’s causing the feeling, whether sensory, environmental, or situational

Minimize that cause as much as possible immediately

Self-caring depression and understimulation looks the same:

Recognize you’re in need of stimulation

Turn on an interesting long-form video of some kind

Do some quick exercise like a walk or jumping jacks

Call a friend that'll let you infodump

If you're neurodivergent and easily get stuck on labelling things — I see you.

I'm here to remind you that you don't need to know what it is to take care of it in the meantime.

You can — will — figure it out later.

[takemetodragonstone]

grabbing a Symptom by the throat and screaming WHO SENT YOU!?? WHICH DISORDER DO YOU BELONG TO

[roachie-paradise]

line-up of all disorder creatures i know of!!!!! !!!

i love the silly silly creatures sm

credits ;;

schizospec creature (the irl) by @thenullepisode

stpd creature (the brb) by @thenearsightedmicroraptor

npd creature (the imo) by @/imnotherelmao

avpd creature (the brb) by ME!!!

bpd creature (the kms) by @mentallyillanimal

hpd creature (the wyd) by @mentallyillanimal

aspd creature (the idc) by @mentallyillanimal

autism creature (the tbh) by @/princestarangel

adhd creature (the btw) by also the same person as above? correct me if im wrong <:3

and tagging @telephone-blights who watched me draw these sillies

[feelingthemode]

disability pride month userboxes part 1/5

posted these on insta throughout the month :3

[definitelynotaweirdo]

[aavpdyapping]

maintaining relationships, any type, feels like treading water. it's something that I'm capable of, but the second that I stop Actively And Conciously Making Myself Do It, I start to sink, and everything floats away. I have to drag myself back to the surface to get it all back, and if I get tired again then I lose it all again. Another metaphor could be the guy whos always rolling that boulder up that mountain. idk. Its just so easy to suddenly lose everything and watch relationships fall apart and not know how to fix them and keep them fixed

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

Wishing that I could be softer and sweeter and more loving and affectionate but simultaneously being absolutely disgusted and repulsed and enraged by the very notion is kind of exhausting actually

[starfishinthedistance]

Unclear instructions that you have to "just figure out" in work/school environments are a legitimate accessibility issue and I wish more educators/employers saw it that way.

You are making your course/workplace completely inaccessible for people with SAD, AVPD, DPD, ASD, ADHD, etc.

[avpdcultureis]

Avpd + adhd fueled rsd culture is fidgeting w someone you trusted a little more than average, them saying "stop that" (they had good reason to), then instantly curling in and going stiff as a board. Why did i think that was ever a good idea?? Sigh

#📖⛓️ anon (i think thats the right order at least)

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[genderimpala]

i may not have been diagnosed with this disorder but boy am i exhibiting symptoms

[edible-emerald]

How many As do you have

if I forgot any lmk and I'll add them (allos dont count bc they're basically free) (I'm not a hypocrite for also putting alive in here)

-Alterhuman

-Apathetic

-Anger Issues

-Anxiety

-Asexual/Aspec

-Aromantic/Arospec

-Aplatonic

-Afamillial

-Agender

-Androgynous

-ADHD

-Autism

-AVPD (Avoidant Personality Disorder)

-Asocial

-Alive

-Avolition (the inability to initiate or engage in goal-directed behaviors)

-Allergy(ies)

-Ambidexterous

-Artist

-Anarchist

-American

-Armenian

-Asian

-African

-Atheist

-Agnostic

-Antitheist (Opposed to religious belief or religion)

-Apocalyptic

-Anemic (a lack of energy or enthusiasm)

-Amnesia

-Anorexic

-Arthritis

-Addiction(s)

-Amnesia

-As in school are a fantasy

[roguetheflowerchild]

Moving out at 18 because you have no choice for your mental health is a lot

[avoidant-dreams]

i wish i didn't hate being perceived so much

whenever i'm being perceived it's like i'm holding my breath waiting for the time when i'm free of other people

then when i'm alone again i can breathe

[haunted-house-sys]

Can we stop telling people with the disorders that they are "romanticizing" them all because theyre trying their best to accept and coexist with said disorders?

Not everything is thunder clouds and and tornadoes, but its not sunshine and rainbows either.

You can love your system but hate having the disorder.

You can enjoy the heightened emotions BPD gives during the white splits while also suffering from the emotional deregulation amd black splits.

You can enjoy being the bounciness and multitasking skills you have while hating the loudness and overcrowding of thoughts and everything else with ADHD.

You can enjoy being alone and independent while also hating the loneliness and yearning of connection and wishing to be able to be dependent with AVPD.

Its not romanticizing anything if you are just trying to coexist with your disorders to make life easier for yourself.

Stop being grumpy at others for trying their best.