#bipolar vs ADHD

[plurapony]

being a system isn't a big deal actually.

especially regarding the debate of diagnosed vs not diagnosed - DID tends to be put on a pedestal. and oh god! if you think you have DID and then it turns out you don't? that's like the biggest tumblr crime you can commit!

look, it's a fact that DID is classified as a rare disorder. it affects 1-3% of the population! but that doesn't mean the experiences those with DID have are rare, that doesn't mean the individual symptoms those with DID have are rare. in australia, an estimated 22% of the population have experienced childhood abuse and/or trauma. that is by NO MEAN rare. 22% of the population have also experienced a mental illness. 50% of the population have experienced some form of dissociation or derealization. there's overlaps! and so many different DID symptoms are present in autism, bipolar, adhd, npd ... you get my point.

as an undiagnosed system myself, when i go to therapy a diagnosis is not even on my MIND. it's incredibly uncommon for therapists in australia to diagnose, not that they can't - they just don't want to. and honestly? i don't blame them! a piece of paper telling me "I have DID" or "I don't have DID"? it will change nothing. it will improve nothing for me. what does help me? my therapist focuses directly on my symptoms and the underlying trauma that drives them. and if i find out i don't have DID later on, it doesn't matter!

i am so sick and tired of seeing someone talk about "splitting" and people immediately assuming it's a DID thing, when the OP was talking about BPD. i am so sick of questioning systems being demonized for just trying to heal from their trauma. if you've been diagnosed with DID congrats! but you didn't win a gold medal and it doesn't make you better than anyone else.

[olderthannetfic]

i’ve never seen an “Internet Safety Tips For Minors” post that i fully agree with and feel comfortable with reblogging. Even if I agree with the sentiment, I can’t help myself from projecting and remembering my own self being a minor. Being told “don’t put your diagnoses/sexuality/etc in your bio” - especially on tumblr - is not gonna prevent people from doing exactly that. And really there is no tangible difference from putting the word autistic in your bio vs tagging all of your posts with #thatautismfeel, you know?

i mean obviously people should be given tips to be safe offline, and no one should be pressured to share vulnerable info but a lot of it feels weirdly fearmongery and stranger danger-y. Also a lot of kids are stubborn especially when an adult that they don’t know is offering them advice that they don’t want. If some Tumblr Elder had told 16 year old me to remove all of my self-diagnosed personality disorders from my bio for my safety i would’ve started posting about my PDs even more out of spite. (Which in itself is very teenager-with-self-diagnosed-PD coded lol.) 

i also feel like there’s some people who genuinely don’t understand what it’s like to be, or at least don’t remember what it’s like to be, a kid whose literal ONLY support system whatsoever is online. To a lot of mentally ill/ND kids, they’d rather risk being harassed or doxxed for shit like “15 year old nonbinary transmasc lesbian with self-diagnosed schizophrenia, autism, adhd, avpd, bpd, stpd, and bipolar” in their bio as long as they still have an online support system filled with people going through similar things, than leave all of that out and have literally NO ONE. Of course there’s a middle ground - i.e. existing online but only disclosing your disorders to those you’re close to, or running an anonymous vent blog, etc, but the truth is a lot of people who are young and/or suffering don’t want to do that.

It’s also so so so easy to victim blame in posts like that. Yeah ofc it’s not, like, smart, to post information that can be used to track you down- but if you end up being tracked down/doxxed, that’s the fault of people who did that, not you.

like trust me I’m not saying kids SHOULD post about their queerness/race/religion/diagnoses, but they also should not be shamed or scared out of doing so.

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[gallifreyinstituteforlearning]

Could gallifreyans be neurodivergent?

Absolutely. Here are a few topics discussed already:

💬|♾️👽Are Gallifreyans naturally autistic?: Exploring autism and its rate of occurrence in Gallifreyans.

💬|♾️👽How does stimming work for Gallifreyans?: Exploring potential ways autistic Gallifreyans could stim using all their senses.

💬|♾️🔮Can Gallifreyan autism affect telepathic/psychic development?: Exploring how autism could impact Gallifreyan development.

💬|♾️🧠Can Time Lords have bipolar disorder?: How bipolar disorder might manifest in Gallifreyans and coping mechanisms/treatments.

💬|♾️😥Do Time Lords deal with depression? If yes, how?: Depression in Time Lords and possible treatments.

💬|♾️🧠Do Gallifreyans get ADHD?: Describing the symptoms of ADHD in Gallifreyans.

💬|✨🧠Regenerative Dissonance vs Disassociative Identity Disorder - what's the difference?: How RD and DID compare.

💬|✨🧠Can a Gallifreyan with Regenerative Dissonance lead a healthy, long life?: The potential long-term impact of RD.

💬|✨🧠Could a Time Lord have Regenerative Dissonance with a consistent voice?: Exploring a possible variant of RD and how it might work.

Hope that helped! 😃

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[aspd-culture]

Sorry ig in advance since you get questions a lot but got curious about a few things

1. Is it normal for pwASPD to view unbeneficial relationships as chores? I know I, a likely prosocial, when I don't see the benefit in a relationship, I have to view it as being a chore to continue it.

2. If a connection is established between harming others and being harmed, will a pwASPD, for lack of a better term, be able to mimic empathy or remorse?

3. Do you know if pwASPD and another comorbid disorder, if the other disorder causes already low or fragile self esteem (like another cluster B), can seem like they don't have ASPD?

These are mostly for project research but also out of curiosity because I can

Nothing to be sorry for!!/gen

1.) Oh yes. So very, very much yes. And honestly, it's even worse than a chore - more like if a dead-end job decided to stop paying you but you'd go to jail if you quit. If you've ever seen a kid stuck dress shopping with their mother on TV, that's the way I would like to act through every single interaction with an equal part useless and annoying but unavoidable prosocial irl. Every single non-Exception prosocial is that coworker you hate who won't leave you alone./hj Joking aside, not all prosocials are actually that annoying actually. So it kind of depends; sometimes it's fine at least for me.

2.) Yeah, I'd say so. This goes differently for all of us, but for the most part "connection formed" would probably go in the direction of an Exception, and that's where some symptoms of ASPD are lessened for those of us that have them. That includes often having some degree of effective empathy and/or a desire to work on cognitive empathy with them in particular (I use them as practice to make the necessary use of cognitive empathy less annoying with non-Exceptions). Ditto with remorse for some pwASPD, though for me in particular that depends on the Exception in question. Some still do not bring out remorse in me for whatever reason. This is a good place to note that actually, since I don't think I've mentioned this elsewhere. Exceptions do not all have to be the same even for the same pwASPD. Two friends may have different symptoms they alleviate vs don't affect vs worsen, and of course platonic vs sexual vs romantic Exceptions often vary in that as well. For me and a few other pwASPD I've met, this may also occur with some groups of people who aren't Exceptions but cause an Exception-esque response. For me, kids get that as most do other people struggling with mental health disorders beyond just depression and anxiety (nothing easy about those two it's just in our current world most people have those). If I hurt a kid's feelings, 25/10 times I am going to cry with them or force myself not to. And that will vary for each pwASPD based on how much social neurological development was completed before it was fundamentally changed and started developing antisocially too. Some of us have more empathy than others, or more remorse than others (and vice versa) in general, so that'll impact those situations too.

3.) So this depends on what you define as "seem like they don't have ASPD", though it won't be self-esteem that affects that. Generally I'd point that more in the direction of NPD. But yeah, looking at the symptoms of ASPD, there are a few specific disorders that cause someone who very much has ASPD to not be diagnosed and/or believed both professionally and personally. In personal relationships, it's honestly just not being a serial k*ller that will get most to think you don't have it. Professionally, you're looking at disorders that cause social problems (such as autism, SAD - social anxiety, and GAD - generalized anxiety), impulse control (ADHD mostly), emotional instability (bipolar disorder, IED - intermittent explosive, ODD - oppositional defiance, and yeah your other cluster b PDs). There are others that make a whole lot less sense imo to get in the way of an ASPD diagnosis too. Schizophrenia comes to mind, with some professionals thinking that it's just... so many episodes of psychosis that it starts to look like ASPD which, don't even get me started on how much of a medical failure it is that I have heard of that specific thing happening. But mostly, it's going to be the ones I listed previously. None of these are mutually exclusive with ASPD, but they have symptoms that overlap with or mimic ASPD's, and so you'll have genuinely good professionals who are trying to avoid over/misdiagnosis where it applies to a *very* stigmatized disorder, and you'll have lazy ones that don't care to try and pick out which it is if not both. That will all just depend on the pwASPD's presentation of symptoms. I had more than one professional refuse to believe I had ASPD, and my (very lovely and dilligent/gen) psychiatrist was also leaning to just diagnose autism until I said some line about the reason I try for social interaction not being because I want to but because everyone has to to be able to get what they need in life. Once she realized I see it as an irritating requirement to associate with other people - even ones I kind of like - she quickly turned on that and diagnosed both. That's why it's important to speak openly and with as much of the mask removed as possible without getting yourself in trouble. They will try and avoid labelling you with something like this unless they are 1000% sure because of its connotations and the social and professional implications of having ASPD. It is very possible to pick out which is which or if it's more than one with overlap in regards to any set of comorbidities even outside of ASPD, but it takes a lot of work for that to be done properly especially if you're still masking in front of them.

I have no issue with anyone asking just out of curiosity by the way. Seriously like I guess I see why some people feel weird about it, but genuine interest is the reason why disorders get looked into, researched, and potentially normalized and accepted. There is nothing wrong with being interested in any topic as long as you're respectful in your interactions with sensitive subjects, and this ask was completely respectful, so I'm happy to answer it./gen

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Nothing to be sorry for!!/gen

1.) Oh yes. So very, very much yes. And honestly, it's even worse than a chore - more like if a dead-end job decided to stop paying you but you'd go to jail if you quit. If you've ever seen a kid stuck dress shopping with their mother on TV, that's the way I would like to act through every single interaction with an equal part useless and annoying but unavoidable prosocial irl. Every single non-Exception prosocial is that coworker you hate who won't leave you alone./hj Joking aside, not all prosocials are actually that annoying actually. So it kind of depends; sometimes it's fine at least for me.

2.) Yeah, I'd say so. This goes differently for all of us, but for the most part "connection formed" would probably go in the direction of an Exception, and that's where some symptoms of ASPD are lessened for those of us that have them. That includes often having some degree of effective empathy and/or a desire to work on cognitive empathy with them in particular (I use them as practice to make the necessary use of cognitive empathy less annoying with non-Exceptions). Ditto with remorse for some pwASPD, though for me in particular that depends on the Exception in question. Some still do not bring out remorse in me for whatever reason. This is a good place to note that actually, since I don't think I've mentioned this elsewhere. Exceptions do not all have to be the same even for the same pwASPD. Two friends may have different symptoms they alleviate vs don't affect vs worsen, and of course platonic vs sexual vs romantic Exceptions often vary in that as well. For me and a few other pwASPD I've met, this may also occur with some groups of people who aren't Exceptions but cause an Exception-esque response. For me, kids get that as most do other people struggling with mental health disorders beyond just depression and anxiety (nothing easy about those two it's just in our current world most people have those). If I hurt a kid's feelings, 25/10 times I am going to cry with them or force myself not to. And that will vary for each pwASPD based on how much social neurological development was completed before it was fundamentally changed and started developing antisocially too. Some of us have more empathy than others, or more remorse than others (and vice versa) in general, so that'll impact those situations too.

3.) So this depends on what you define as "seem like they don't have ASPD", though it won't be self-esteem that affects that. Generally I'd point that more in the direction of NPD. But yeah, looking at the symptoms of ASPD, there are a few specific disorders that cause someone who very much has ASPD to not be diagnosed and/or believed both professionally and personally. In personal relationships, it's honestly just not being a serial k*ller that will get most to think you don't have it. Professionally, you're looking at disorders that cause social problems (such as autism, SAD - social anxiety, and GAD - generalized anxiety), impulse control (ADHD mostly), emotional instability (bipolar disorder, IED - intermittent explosive, ODD - oppositional defiance, and yeah your other cluster b PDs).

There are others that make a whole lot less sense imo to get in the way of an ASPD diagnosis too. Schizophrenia comes to mind, with some professionals thinking that it's just... so many episodes of psychosis that it starts to look like ASPD which, don't even get me started on how much of a medical failure it is that I have heard of that specific thing happening. But mostly, it's going to be the ones I listed previously. None of these are mutually exclusive with ASPD, but they have symptoms that overlap with or mimic ASPD's, and so you'll have genuinely good professionals who are trying to avoid over/misdiagnosis where it applies to a very stigmatized disorder, and you'll have lazy ones that don't care to try and pick out which it is if not both. That will all just depend on the pwASPD's presentation of symptoms. I had more than one professional refuse to believe I had ASPD, and my (very lovely and dilligent/gen) psychiatrist was also leaning to just diagnose autism until I said some line about the reason I try for social interaction not being because I want to but because everyone has to to be able to get what they need in life. Once she realized I see it as an irritating requirement to associate with other people - even ones I kind of like - she quickly turned on that and diagnosed both. That's why it's important to speak openly and with as much of the mask removed as possible without getting yourself in trouble. They will try and avoid labelling you with something like this unless they are 1000% sure because of its connotations and the social and professional implications of having ASPD. It is very possible to pick out which is which or if it's more than one with overlap in regards to any set of comorbidities even outside of ASPD, but it takes a lot of work for that to be done properly especially if you're still masking in front of them.

I have no issue with anyone asking just out of curiosity by the way. Seriously like I guess I see why some people feel weird about it, but genuine interest is the reason why disorders get looked into, researched, and potentially normalized and accepted. There is nothing wrong with being interested in any topic as long as you're respectful in your interactions with sensitive subjects, and this ask was completely respectful, so I'm happy to answer it./gen

[yonemurishiroku]

Wondering the whole thing about loyalty being Percy's fatal flaw might actually be on a much more personal level rather than an encompassing "children of Poseidon"-trait.

This is to say that Percy's problem with unhealthy 'loyalty' could be a consequence of his upbringing. You see. The whole point is that Percy can be wary, yet once he deems someone an ally/ not-enemy, it's dangerously difficult for him to see them in a negative light. It's this sort of bipolar disorder but the categories are "Friend or Foe", each of which comes with a package of completely separate treatment. He put Luke in the Friend lot and he nearly died for that. He distrusted Nico but he didn't see him as an enemy and fell for the kid's trick still.

Revert back to his childhood. IIRC Percy had two parent figures growing up, i.e. Sally and Gabe. And here's a thing. They are basically two ends of the spectrum of Parenting. Gabe was an abusive, negligent, alcoholic, problematic stepfather whereas Sally was like a saint or something, who had sacrificed for him so much. So Percy had only experienced two types of attitude in his perspective-shaping phase: extremely loving and downright scornful.

This could thus limit his relationship categories, and later create a hole in his view of others' attitudes, I believe. His relationship table basically has only two columns, Friendly vs Not friendly. Percy puts people in those lots based on how they treat him, how they express themselves to him, how he sees them. But people are way more than just one facet. People can be many things at once, and so are the relationships. Percy's system is lacking, so he suffers from being twirled around in complicated, multilayer dynamics.

Imagine Percy, who only has two sets of acquaintances in his life, one of which gives him misery whilst the other fights for him, is thrown into a mess of two-faced lies and concealed intentions. He doesn't have the specialized code of reaction for that. There's no special section in his handbook dedicated to "People you need to beware of" or "These guys seem friendly, but better be safe than sorry". Once Percy has decided to put you in his mind as not an enemy - he would actively refuse to treat you as an enemy because that's not the way he does it.

And because Percy has so few 'Friends', you know, that he intrinsically, automatically puts you in the Friends column as long as he finds no hostility from you. Yeah, he has Sally, Grover, and Annabeth, but he also has Gabe and Nancy (?) and IIRC the bullies. He has always felt like he didn't fit in (no thanks to you, demigod-bonus ADHD and dyslexia). Percy has had to put too many in the unfavorable section that he, subconsciously or not, favors amicable acquaintanceships - that's why Luke got to him so effortlessly, just by treating him decently.

It's quite similar to the other category too. The best example I can come up with now is Bob/ Iapetus. Bob first made his entrance as Percy's enemy aka Iapetus, and later became harmless to him after getting his memories erased. You'd think Percy would rearrange the columns, but the fact is that Percy technically didn't even remember Bob, or Iapetus for that matter, after leaving him in Nico's care. If my theory is of any credit, I suppose Bob didn't make it into Percy's 'Friends' category, i.e. Percy hadn't considered him a friend. Bob landed in as a Foe and he stayed there in Percy's head - at least up until the Tartarus debacle.

So, like I said: a bipolar relationship classifying system.

[blackcandlesinwinter]

There's a shit ton of really bad takes on that post I reblogged from @nothorses about signs of addiction which I generally expect when it comes to this topic. But I really want to draw attention to the knee-jerk defensive reactions from folks trying to draw a sharp distinction between "medical use" and "recreational use" because I think this is both extremely reductive and also harmful.

"Medical use" is, if anything, a legal distinction, not a medical one or a moral one. Medical use means that a doctor wrote the prescription for the drug you are using and you are presumably using it according to the instructions you were given. Medical use doesn't mean you're not addicted to a drug. Lots of folks are addicted to substances that they are legally prescribed. That doesn't mean that it's bad for them to use the drug, or that they need to stop using it, or that doctors shouldn't prescribe it! There's a cost-benefit analysis that goes into the decision to take any medication. Every person has the right to decide for themselves if the benefits to their quality of life outweigh any downsides, including the possible downside of addiction.

"Recreational use" doesn't mean that people aren't using drugs as medication. It just means that the drugs a person is using are not prescribed to them by a doctor or are not being used as indicated. People often have both medical and recreational motivations to use non-prescribed drugs. Like, a lot of folks smoke weed to deal with pain, but also they might enjoy the feeling of being high. Lots of folks with anxiety or depression take drugs for fun, and sometimes part of the fun is that it eases the symptoms of their mental illness. Folks with ADHD may seek out recreational stimulants. Folks with bipolar may use substances that make their mania more fun and less stressful. Folks with addictions may use additional drugs to ease withdrawal symptoms or to extend their high. Folks with terminal illnesses may use substances to allow them to forget about death for a little while. Lots of people whose drug use is "recreational" also have underlying illnesses that factor into their use, whether they are aware and diagnosed or not.

And this is not to insist that all drug use must have a secret, tragic, underlying medical reason that makes their drug use totally out of their control. I've already written my rambling essay on how I find that sort of agency-denying woobification of drug users to also be rather unhelpful. I'm saying that we can't neatly sort people into "pure, innocent drug user who has a medical excuse to take drugs so it's ok" vs. "bad, irresponsible drug user who has no excuse and thus deserves judgment for their bad decisions." And we shouldn't be trying to.

[pennysperfectpolls]

Penny poll Bracket 2 Finals

Penny Lamb/Jane Doe (Legoland / Ride the Cyclone) vs

Penelope (The Odyssey)

Propaganda under the cut

Penny Lamb/Jane Doe (Legoland / Ride the Cyclone)

• Okay I am not the person to be propaganda making for her but she's so cool she died once and then came back she's also a bit uhh deranged is a good word

• Penny Lamb (and her younger brother Ezra) lived in a hippie weed growing commune until she was thirteen and snuck out to a walmart, eventually leading to the entire thing burning to the ground. Then they lived in a tiny town named Uranium City and she got relentlessly bullied and even set on fire until she was given a cd by another girl from a band called Seven Up. She formed a parasocial relationship with the singer, who then turned into a misogynistic rapper. She travelled from northern Saskatchewan to Florida to meet him and thank him for basically making her life tolerable and enjoyable, and then ended up tearing a chunk of flesh out of his face with her teeth all at the age of 15 years old. Two years later after a concert with her school choir, she was beheaded on a fair rollercoaster called the Cyclone, becoming a Jane Doe until she was voted back to life. While she was Jane Doe, she wore the head of a porcelain doll as to not freak the other kids out!

• she was born a hippie, she bites and maims a famous rapper with hot coffee, she has a little brother obsessed with german philosophy, she plays the ukulele, she has a fuck ass bob. she gets fucking DECAPITATED by a roller coaster but survives because she is so offputting. what else do you need in a woman

• Where do I START with Penny. Basically she grew up socially isolated on a community pot farm until the age of 13, where she and her brother ran away to Walmart and started pretending to revive him from seizures because of how much attention she got. She was eventually driven back home where the entire community was drug busted burned to the ground, their parents being arrested, friends taken away, entire home destroyed. Instead of being sent to foster care, she’s and her brother are sent to a catholic boarding school, where they live mostly unsupervised. Penny is relentlessly bullied for supposedly being a lesbian, and diagnosed as bipolar and manic depressive while her brother (three years younger than her) sells his adhd medication to college kids to make ends meet. Soon after having her backpack lit on fire by bullies, she starts to fall into a deep depressive episode, not coming out of her room for days, until a catholic girl takes pity on her, and gives her a hiphop/boyband CD for her to listen to called 7-up (important later). Penny obsessed on the lead singer Johnny moon to an unhealthy degree until the band breaks up and Johnny rebrands to JK47, a misogynist gangster rapper who penny can’t stand. Penny and her brother run away from middle of knowwhere Canada to Florida to meet him so penny can win him back and remind him of how much she loves him and how cool he used to be. This doesn’t go well, as he doesn’t drop his gangster persona, calling her the same insult all her previous bullies did, leading to her throwing hot coffee on him, tearing a chunk off flesh out of his face with her teeth, and subsequently being arrested and later out on probation. Penny ALSO gets her own movie (in the play) and tells the audience this very story in a presentation with goofy puppets. Penny’s story is funny and absurd but at the same time incredibly tragic and heartbreaking. She also appears in ride the cyclone where she’s revealed to be the identity of Jane Doe (who had her head cut off before she was found dead in the rollercoaster accident with the other choir kids and was therefor never identified)

• she is a femamist lesbian and I am in love with her

• She's known as Jane Doe throughout the musical because she doesn't know who she is in death, her head is a doll's head because she lost her real one in the rollercoaster disaster that killed all the characters, she's the one who wins the prize of coming back from death which is when we learn her true name Penny. Her song is absolutely *beautiful* (The Ballad of Jane Doe) and she is the Penny of all time because I love her

• Girlie already lost her head we can’t take her victory too :(

Penelope (The Odyssey)

• She waited about 20 years for her husband to come home she used her huge brain to keep the suitors away for ages I just think she's neat

• She is LOYAL. She is SMART. She is HARDWORKING. She waited for TWENTY YEARS. Penelope is a QUEEN (literally). PENELOPE SWEEP

[buddiequeerbait]

i saw you headcanon buck (and maybe maddie?) as bipolar, i’d love to hear more about the headcanon if you’d be willing to share :)

gasp. okay. well i will say it's like 95% projection bc a lot of buck's symptoms could be explained with the popular fandom headcanons of adhd and bpd but. well i am bipolar so i like to headcanon by babies as bipolar. but i also think that's why it's interesting and fun to headcanon both buck and maddie as bipolar.

in my mind maddie leans more depressed and buck leans more manic and also maddie is on mood stabilizers and buck is not. i've made this post before but it makes me laugh to think of maddie telling buck how well she's doing on mood stabilizers and for buck (oblivious) to be like "that's so great maddie i'm happy for you :)"

i could see maddie getting diagnosed during her ppd era and being like oh this explains so much. about me. but also about buck. like maybe maddie peer diagnoses buck a little bit. as siblings sometimes do lol. and she's like. dropping hints that i think my brother is bipolar but she's never gonna be pushy about it. and buck is never going to pick up on it.

buck is SO oblivious and has no self awareness and for me personally it's really hard for me to be self aware when i'm manic. like i have no idea when i'm being normal vs when i'm being manic and buck who doesn't even know he's bipolar would struggle with that too. like he thinks he's just being a regular normal guy at all times but really he is acting crazay. and i think maddie and eddie are really good at handling him when he's manic. like they talk him down but they don't talk down to him and they meet him where he's at and they help him level his head. and when he's depressed they push him and drag him out of his head. wow. yay. eddiemaddie support system makes me so happy.

okay that's all the rambling i have in me. i should write a completely self indulgent bipolar buckley siblings fic bc this is making me happy to think about.

[cocajimmycola]

VS miku is amasui, polyamorous, nonbinary, mspec, aroacespec, cistrans, monoconcious median system, who has bpd, autism, and adhd. she uses she/her pronouns.

L/n miku is transmasc, polyamorous, aroallo, lesbian, transmasc girl, girlthing, lesboy, miku4miku, amasui, and dichotique. they have autism, ocd, and are hypoempathic. he uses he/they/it pronouns.

MMJ miku is gay, acespec, flomnugender, femme, intersex and experiences amasui. she has npd, dpd, autism and adhd. she uses any pronouns.

VBS miku is bi, trans, unlabelled gender, and experiences amasui. she has hpd, bipolar, and autism. they dont really care about pronouns.

WxS miku is transmasc, bigender, abro, polyamorous, nonbinary, pangay man, mspec, risusaean, transfemmasc, girlthing, boything, catgender, carnivalcoric, nascisilly, sillyvalper, freelekour, sillyfag, genderclown, humorandrogynous, minalence, ridiguygender, playmatelexic, alienantennaeic, apricozyboy, meowmeowgender, whimsylexic, goobersonic, araeshian, miku4miku, amasui, alterhuman, and it has ocd, npd, bpd, autism, and adhd. he uses any pronouns and any neopronouns!

25ji miku is transfem, polyamorous, girlliker, gaybian, femme, etlexic, daydream and amasui. she has ocd, mdd, avpd, and autism. she uses she/they/it pronouns.

they are all dating!

tagging @en8y @losergendered @queersekai

[saintjosie]

the constant battle between my autism wanting structure and schedule vs my adhd wanting to do what it wants to do always vs my bipolar that says fuck you to both

[writingquestionsanswered]

Okay, i don't know if I need to ask a blog specifically for writing mental health, but here goes nothing.

One of my main characters is mentally ill (Bipolar, OCD, and Anxiety), and their girlfriend wants to help her partner through their mental health struggles. How do I write a person being supportive to their partner with their mental health, without falling into the "love cures you of mental illness" lie?

Illustrating Support vs Trying to Cure

I do think it's worth reaching out to a blog specific to writing mental health if you can find one, but I will say there's a difference between being supportive and trying to cure someone. And I think on the surface, that's really the key... doing the research to learn what support looks like (specific to providing support to a loved one living with a mental illness) so you can illustrate supportive behaviors versus corrective behaviors. For example, when I was younger and had a lot of ADHD-related meltdowns, it didn't help me when people tried to correct my behavior, telling me what I should do to correct or improve my "temper." What did help was when people learned what I needed to help me through a meltdown, such as them staying calm, not judging, giving me space, and then giving me comfort and reassurance when I was ready for it. That, for me, was support. But someone saying, "You shouldn't behave that way," though well-meant, was them trying to correct/cure me.

One thing you can do in your research is look for material that is aimed toward caregivers and loved ones of people living with a mental illness, and specifically loved ones living with Bipolar, OCD, and anxiety. This should provide specific pointers on what support looks like. You can also look for interviews with and blogs written by people living with a mental illness, as they may talk about their support systems and ways in which people support them versus ways people try to correct/cure them.

And finally, once you've written your portrayal, I strongly urge you to hire a sensitivity reader (or a few) with lived experience relevant to your portrayal, as they can help vet what you've written to make sure you've avoided falling into that "love cures you" trap.

I hope that helps!

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[daisyypeach]

Alright people are being picky about what parts of neurodivergence are okay.

ADHD: okay (even though people that don’t have adhd have no idea what they’re talking about when they say they’re ’so adhd’)

Autism: Not okay

OCD: okay. (Even though people that don’t have OCD have no idea what they’re talking about when they said they’re ‘so ocd’)

Bipolar disorder: Not okay.

Dyslexia/dyspraxia: nobody wants it. But it’s okay if you have it.

ASPD: not okay

Let me explain before some asshole comes up in my ask box like “ASPD isn’t neurodivergent!!”

Yes it is.

Neurodivergence: differing in mental or neurological function from what is considered typically normal.

ASPD isn’t a bad disorder. Psychopaths are born. Can’t help what you are born as neither can an autistic person. Sociopaths are extremely traumatised individuals.

No disorder gives someone permission to do bad things. A lot of autistic males get a free pass growing up. They don’t frequently become good people because of this. Girls aren’t even given the Grace of a diagnosis until we’re adults majority of the time.

Psychopaths and sociopaths choose what they do. With a lack of empathy are not. You learn right from wrong and you don’t hurt people, animals, or things. Doesn’t mean people are wrong for their urges or thoughts. Only their actions.

People saying ADHD is the the chlamydia of disorders honestly piss me off. ‘Nobody wants it. But if you have it. It’s not the end of the world’

Depending on severity, you might go your whole life with adhd as nothing more than sticky note on your chart. Or it might rule your life every day, and you’ll have to actively work with and against it every single day.

Theres such a stigma on mental health. And people somehow collectively decided what society will treat as normal vs abnormal. Kindly vs cruelly.

[gallifreyinstituteforlearning]

Knowing that there's such thing as gallifreyan autism, is there also such thing as gallifreyan ADHD?

Do Gallifreyans get ADHD?

Absolutely. It's pretty much a given that the Doctor has it in various incarnations.

🚀 ADHD in Gallifreyans vs. Humans

1.🧠 Enhanced Cognitive Abilities

Gallifreyans already possess significantly advanced cognitive functions compared to humans. Their brains are more efficient at processing information and multitasking.

Human ADHD: Often characterised by difficulty focusing, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness.

Gallifreyan ADHD: While similar traits exist, Gallifreyans might process these differently due to their enhanced brain structures. They might struggle to focus on mundane tasks but do really well in high-pressure, complex situations.

2. ⚡ Supercharged Hyperfocus

Both Gallifreyans and humans with ADHD can be hyperfocused - an intense form of concentration on tasks of interest.

Human ADHD: Hyperfocus can lead to losing track of time and neglecting other responsibilities.

Gallifreyan ADHD: Given their higher cognitive baseline, Gallifreyan hyperfocus might result in breakthroughs or rapid problem-solving abilities, making them incredibly efficient when engaged.

3. ⏲️ Time Perception

Gallifreyans, with their innate time sensitivity, perceive time differently.

Human ADHD: Individuals can have a skewed sense of time, leading to poor time management.

Gallifreyan ADHD: Time sensitivity can both enhance and complicate their perception, making time management more nuanced.

4. 🔋 Energy Levels and Physical Hyperactivity

ADHD often involves high energy levels and physical restlessness.

Human ADHD: This manifests as fidgeting, restlessness, and an inability to stay still.

Gallifreyan ADHD: Their enhanced physiology allows them to channel this energy into constructive activities, such as saving the universe and the like.

5. ⚠️ Impulsivity and Risk-Taking

Impulsivity is a hallmark of ADHD, leading to spontaneous decisions and risk-taking.

Human ADHD: This can lead to challenges in maintaining routines and making long-term plans.

Gallifreyan ADHD: Potentially leading to unconventional solutions and daring plans. Their advanced problem-solving abilities and quick thinking turn this impulsivity into a strength, enabling them to navigate crises effectively.

6. 😭 Emotional Regulation

ADHD can impact emotional regulation, causing intense emotional responses.

Human ADHD: Emotional dysregulation can lead to mood swings and heightened reactions.

Gallifreyan ADHD: Emotional responses can be intense and sudden, but their advanced brains allows for rapid processing and recovery.

🩺 The Doctor with ADHD

The Doctor’s actions, energy, and thought processes align with ADHD traits:

Bored by mundane things and people.

Constantly seeking new experiences and challenges.

Taking bold, spontaneous actions to save others.

Becoming intensely focused on solving complex issues.

The need to keep moving, exploring, and learning.

Emotional outbursts/intense emotional connections in some incarnations.

🏫 So ..

Gallifreyan ADHD is not only possible but can also be a real benefit. Their unique neurobiology allows them to channel their symptoms into universe-saving actions, making ADHD potentially a kind of wild superpower in the realm of Time Lords, as long as their focus is in the right place.

Related:

💬|♾️🧠Can Time Lords have bipolar disorder?: How bipolar disorder might manifest in Gallifreyans and coping mechanisms/treatments.

💬|♾️😥Do Time Lords deal with depression? If yes, how?: Depression in Time Lords and possible treatments.

💬|✨🧠Regenerative Dissonance vs Disassociative Identity Disorder - what's the difference?: How RD and DID compare.

Hope that helped! 😃

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[mymanyfandomramblings]

This is going to be the first controversial, non-fandom post I've ever made, but as an autistic person, I think it's time to retire the term 'neurotypical'. Not only is it a hard-to-define term, but it doesn't have any application that I find to be helpful.

Firstly, the difficulty to define. Neurotypical is a term that has arisen as an opposition to the term 'neurodivergent' (which has also lost it's meaning somewhat, but that's a conversation for another time). Neurodivergent has a specific meaning--it refers to someone whose brain functions atypically, usually due to another condition--ADHD, autism, Down Syndrome, bipolar, and so on. Neurotypical on the other hand, can at face value, seem like the opposite of that--i.e someone who doesn't have a neurodivergent condition--but the problem is that it reads--and is used as a term--to mean essentially 'normal', and it implies that everyone who doesn't have a neurodivergent condition thinks and acts the same way, which is untrue. No two people's brains function the same way, and there isn't really 'typical' when it comes to brains.

"But mymanyfandomramblings, we need some way of talking about people who aren't neurodivergent?!" I hear you say, and I will respond that you can have a word for that when I trust that you'll use it well. The second reason I think we don't need the term 'neurotypical' anymore is because I don't think it's helpful. Like I said above, it implies that there's a uniformity amongst people who aren't neurodivergent, and the good people of Tumblr dot com love to use this implication to create an 'us vs. them' mentality. As though 'neurotypical' people are a whole mass of mysterious people who communicate only in small talk and make up nefarious social rules that make no sense and exist only to baffle us, and will never be able to understand us as well as another neurodivergent person. And while there is some credence to that--if you don't have a condition, you aren't as easily able to understand someone else--it also refuses to acknowledge that there are so many disorders that can come under the heading of 'neurodiversity' and that I am just as blind to the struggles of someone with NPD or Tourette's--if not more so--than a non-autistic friend might be to my struggles. So that's what you can use instead. You can say 'someone who doesn't have [condition]' if it's important, rather than inventing a phrase that implies that everyone not like you is the same.

That concludes my TED talk, please don't send hateful anons.

[jalapenobagels]

⋆ abt me ⋆

⋆ bagel ⋆ it/gore/halo ⋆ 24 ⋆ taken ⋆ intp ⋆ queer ⋆ aromantic ⋆ gay ⋆ agender femboy ⋆ autistic ⋆ adhd ⋆ did ⋆ ocd ⋆ bpd ⋆ avpd ⋆ agoraphobic ⋆ bipolar ⋆ insomniac ⋆ nonverbal / mute aac user ⋆ low - mid support ⋆ strawpage (respond on @jalapenobagels) ⋆ twt ⋆ discord ⋆ pronouns.cc ⋆ spotify

⋆ interests / hobbies ⋆

⋆ horror ⋆ analog horror ⋆ saw ⋆ silent hill ⋆ solo leveling ⋆ video games ⋆ titanfall 2 ⋆ resident evil ⋆ bleach ⋆ psychology ⋆ death ⋆ writing ⋆ red vs blue ⋆ cookie run ⋆ anime ⋆ journaling ⋆ overwatch ⋆ destiny 2 ⋆ valorant ⋆ reflect studio ⋆ outlast 1 + 2 + trials ⋆ the evil within 1 + 2 ⋆ corpse party ⋆ alien: isolation ⋆ prey ⋆ osu! ⋆ white collar ⋆ scream ⋆ halloween ⋆ children of the corn ⋆ silence of the lambs ⋆ hannibal ⋆ marble hornets ⋆ insym ⋆ markiplier ⋆ sasaki to miyano ⋆ apothecary diaries ⋆ dungeon meshi ⋆ stephen king ⋆ warriors by erin hunter ⋆ artemis fowl by eoin colfer ⋆ sherlock holmes ⋆ paradise lost * bold and italics indicates special interest

[pennysperfectpolls]

Penny poll round 2 match 3

Penny Lamb/Jane Doe (Legoland / Ride the Cyclone) vs

Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)

Propaganda under the cut

Penny Lamb (Legoland / Ride the Cyclone)

• Okay I am not the person to be propaganda making for her but she's so cool she died once and then came back she's also a bit uhh deranged is a good word

• Penny Lamb (and her younger brother Ezra) lived in a hippie weed growing commune until she was thirteen and snuck out to a walmart, eventually leading to the entire thing burning to the ground. Then they lived in a tiny town named Uranium City and she got relentlessly bullied and even set on fire until she was given a cd by another girl from a band called Seven Up. She formed a parasocial relationship with the singer, who then turned into a misogynistic rapper. She travelled from northern Saskatchewan to Florida to meet him and thank him for basically making her life tolerable and enjoyable, and then ended up tearing a chunk of flesh out of his face with her teeth all at the age of 15 years old. Two years later after a concert with her school choir, she was beheaded on a fair rollercoaster called the Cyclone, becoming a Jane Doe until she was voted back to life. While she was Jane Doe, she wore the head of a porcelain doll as to not freak the other kids out!

• she was born a hippie, she bites and maims a famous rapper with hot coffee, she has a little brother obsessed with german philosophy, she plays the ukulele, she has a fuck ass bob. she gets fucking DECAPITATED by a roller coaster but survives because she is so offputting. what else do you need in a woman

• Where do I START with Penny. Basically she grew up socially isolated on a community pot farm until the age of 13, where she and her brother ran away to Walmart and started pretending to revive him from seizures because of how much attention she got. She was eventually driven back home where the entire community was drug busted burned to the ground, their parents being arrested, friends taken away, entire home destroyed. Instead of being sent to foster care, she’s and her brother are sent to a catholic boarding school, where they live mostly unsupervised. Penny is relentlessly bullied for supposedly being a lesbian, and diagnosed as bipolar and manic depressive while her brother (three years younger than her) sells his adhd medication to college kids to make ends meet. Soon after having her backpack lit on fire by bullies, she starts to fall into a deep depressive episode, not coming out of her room for days, until a catholic girl takes pity on her, and gives her a hiphop/boyband CD for her to listen to called 7-up (important later). Penny obsessed on the lead singer Johnny moon to an unhealthy degree until the band breaks up and Johnny rebrands to JK47, a misogynist gangster rapper who penny can’t stand. Penny and her brother run away from middle of knowwhere Canada to Florida to meet him so penny can win him back and remind him of how much she loves him and how cool he used to be. This doesn’t go well, as he doesn’t drop his gangster persona, calling her the same insult all her previous bullies did, leading to her throwing hot coffee on him, tearing a chunk off flesh out of his face with her teeth, and subsequently being arrested and later out on probation. Penny ALSO gets her own movie (in the play) and tells the audience this very story in a presentation with goofy puppets. Penny’s story is funny and absurd but at the same time incredibly tragic and heartbreaking. She also appears in ride the cyclone where she’s revealed to be the identity of Jane Doe (who had her head cut off before she was found dead in the rollercoaster accident with the other choir kids and was therefor never identified)

• she is a femamist lesbian and I am in love with her

• She's known as Jane Doe throughout the musical because she doesn't know who she is in death, her head is a doll's head because she lost her real one in the rollercoaster disaster that killed all the characters, she's the one who wins the prize of coming back from death which is when we learn her true name Penny. Her song is absolutely *beautiful* (The Ballad of Jane Doe) and she is the Penny of all time because I love her

• Girlie already lost her head we can’t take her victory too :(

Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)

• arthur #1

Pollrunner note: the propaganda came from your submissions. Feel free to add more either in reblogs or asks