#but there’s this NASTY trend of pathologizing every emotion and behavior as a disorder symptom when really you’re just Alive
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there’s a tiktok going around of a woman recording herself sobbing directly into the camera because as she says in the text over the video of her crying her relationship of eight years just ended and since she has adhd that heightens your emotions and while this is not the first video of this kind i’ve seen making the rounds on al gore’s internet it is the first where i’ve seen people call anyone who criticizes the video a misogynist and truly genuinely people need to get a grip because from where i’m sitting we should be criticizing this behavior even more it’s so bizarre to me that we don’t more frequently say how weird and disturbing it is that we’ve created a culture where it’s perfectly normal to intentionally record yourself performatively experiencing all of the trials and triumphs of being alive for internet points which has been coupled with individuality culture and the need to pathologize every very human behavior and emotion to create people whose brains have been so broken that everyone now thinks their every experience is unique to them alone and so naturally they are the first person to feel awful after a long term relationship ends but because of a developmental disorder and not just because they’re a person with feelings and it fucking sucks when sad things happen and i hate it so much we need to knock it off stop recording yourself being alive. stop it.
#something fun about this post is how many people in the tags assume i personally don’t have adhd or any other developmental disorders#i KNOW your emotions are heightened because of ADHD. i live with it every day.#but there’s this NASTY trend of pathologizing every emotion and behavior as a disorder symptom when really you’re just Alive#doing that does nothing but hurt those of us with developmental disorders by infantilizing and alienating us even more#and to be clear i’m using this video as an example because it’s the most recent one i’ve seen but i’m not linking it#because i really don’t actually want to feed into whatever pile on is happening or inadvertently encourage that kind of behavior
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