#buuut it could also be a bpd thing Maybe?

[avpdgirlfriend]

girl who probably has avoidant personality disorder it's fine

[tsukiwitchi]

okay it's like BASICALLY 6am and I need to sleep buuut

I really really want mutuals / friends. even if we don't spread across multiple media!!! I want people to hype up real bad.

about me;

I'm a 22 year old bi witch who struggles with illnesses she needs tested for some day (suspected bpd, anxiety, depression) in 2016 when I met people I always said I was "bi felicia" and I think that was my peak

interests/enjoys:

- arcane, league of legends, art, lakes, mobile legends, ffxiv, metaphor, elves, crazy girls, my oc artemas

dislikes/pet peeves:

- chicken liver, ragebait, white lies, whole wheat bread (I try), people who don't really try at anything? it's kind of deep but people who complain about things and proceed to not try or look for help (possible projection)

favorite characters:

- vira from granblue fantasy, vi and caitlyn from arcane / lol, misa from death note, stocking from pswg, hulkenberg from metaphor, columbina from genshin impact

benefits from being mutuals:

I might form an attachment AND be too scared to talk to you but I'll always +1 your art and get excited if you post abt something you clearly love!!! I don't play a lot of games or text but maybe with time we could? I also like to randomly draw characters I like so...... yeah....

anyhow. since I'm new here, I hope even with time I'll find some people to quietly be mutuals with. have a great day 🦋💙 gn!

[grubcakes]

If u don't mind would u like to share 8 of your juiciest ludwig von koopa Headcanons with me pweez 😁

HIEEE IM SO SORRY IM JUST RESPONSING TO RHIS ..., i had a response written when u sent ir and then my tumblr bugged out and got rid of it so i got mad and pretended it didnt exist. IM SO SORRYYY AHHH YES I CAN DO THIS!!

💙 ⊹₊ ⋆ Ludwig is Autistic. Because I am!! He also has BPD.. BECAUSE I DO!!! whoopee!!! He doesn't especially like being touched by people and hasn't since he was Firstborn. Every time somebody touches him, he says "Touching." in a very crabby tone (bee and puppycat reference) and stares at them until they stop touching him. Cicada is exempt from this both because he likes them and because they have soft hands so it's ok. He has a special interest in music as a whole and loves composing his own pieces!!... Many of which are unfinished because he has big boy work to take care of, and because he keeps making more. He is organized with everything but his own music ... what a goober

🎼 ⊹₊ ⋆ Lore dump for context..... Bowser made a deal with this goddess lady because she doesn't like peach (lore reasons, please ask me about it) and the deal is to capture her yadda yadda ... In exchange for his compliance, the goddess gave him the seven rainbow kids (Koopalings!! wao) so that they could assist him in his mission. Bowser, now with this new stressful mission, ended up shoving Junior in Ludwig's hands..... for a while, Ludwig was Junior's primary caretaker while Bowser was stressing over the mission and other things, and he Hated it. This was pre-transition, so Junior would call Ludwig 'mini-mama' which he hated even more. While Ludwig doesn't hold any grudges against Junior for obvious reasons, he still feels weird if he has to take care of him for any reason. (Also, Junior's favorite sibling is Ludwig.. for obvious reasons!)

🪼 ⊹₊ ⋆ All of the Koopalings and Junior watch my little pony because its goated. Ludwig's favorite is Rarity (obvious, I know).. not because they have similar personalities, but because she has impeccable fashion sense. She also mildly inspired his little interest in sewing, an interest he carries that he'd never admit to anybody but Cicada. He sewed some of the outfits they wore when they were considered a 'captive'. (He would like to get into crocheting, maybe.)

🎧 ⊹₊ ⋆ In public, he obviously likes to keep a posh and professional appearance. He rarely smiles, always looks straight ahead, never breaking eye contact when speaking (which unnerves people sometimes)... And hides his real laugh. The fake laugh he shows people is very quiet, think of like... a "hmhmhm-" or liek silverspoon from III. Buuut, if you show him something real funny, and you're not in front of anyone else........ "PFFOHOHO!!(๑`���´๑)" !!!! (if youre in public, he tries to hold it in and he sounds like he is choking)

💠 ⊹₊ ⋆ I already kinda stated he is trans two facts ago but he is trans. His hair used to be entirely white and a little less coily and kinda droopier.... He was very sad before he transitioned. He would isolate himself much more than he does now, to the point where he wouldn't eat for days at a time sometimes. He was also much crabbier. He had frequent episodes that would result in isolation or worse (s/h) and one day he ended up exploding and having a meltdown in front of Iggy and Iggy's response was to promptly knock him out and give him both top and bottom surgery and pump him full of hormones which made him sick for like a week!!!! He obviously recovered nicely, though- he stopped isolating as much and began EATING YAY!!!.!.@?@?. After he went on hormones his hair started to turn blue. Why? lunno. Sometimes he gets a white hair every now and again (from stress) and he very quickly plucks it because 1. He's scared he'll look like how he used to and 2. Не doesn't wanna get old and wrinkly. Even tho him and Iggy have a complex rivalry brotherhood type thing going on, he will forever hold Iggy in high mental regards for playing doctor that day.

🖤 ⊹₊ ⋆ I'm sure this is a very common headcanon for him (i know it is but IDC!!) Him and Wendy are gossip buddies. They have stupid nicknames for each other to let each other know its gossip time (DeeDee and Wiggy). Obviously they hate these nicknames, but hey!! its fun. Ludwig also gets weirded out when others call him Wiggy. Roy is on thin ice because she calls him Wigzy, which is just one letter off.

🦋 ⊹₊ ⋆ Another common one obviously buuut ,,, He can play Many instruments!!! Piano, trumpet, tuba, organ, violin, viola, and saxophone. How does he get the time for all of it?? who knows!!! (he has occasional 3-am moments in his studio) ... also he wants to learn more. Cicada will eventually teach him Kalimba and Harp and this other instrument i created that doesn't have a name yet!!

🐦‍⬛ ⊹₊ ⋆ He is Romantically complicated. He's a gay man which is like semirelated butANYWAY like .... He reads romance because he feels like he has no time to feel romantic feelings. But at the same time he thinks romance is dumb and would probably waste his time, but then he also really wants to know what it's like to kiss somebody and be romantic and stuff. But also hates touching and being touched but he wants to be held. (Cue Cicada♡) He's just very complicated!!! (After he developes his weird little feelings for Cicada he feels gross and weird sometimes because he's like wow this is so weird. what is going on. why. i wanna kiss him. im gonna hurl)

THANK YOU IM SO SORRY I DIDNT RESPONS TO THIS SOONER OWJEKSBSS..,., YAYAYAYAYYY

[solipsistful]

do you have any info/posts/thoughts about system members with entirely different neurology rather than experiencing the same disorders through different lenses? imo it makes sense to me that the brain can't entirely differ in neuroses across system members, just presentation— but we know of a diagnosed DID system whose psych confirmed only one alter has bipolar disorder, and in my system we can't quite yet reconcile how our highly differing symptoms fit together. mostly curious tbh

We can’t really give Research-Backed Information, if that’s what you’re asking, because there iiiisn’t really research there, as far as we’re aware, beyond the occasional reference to alters potentially presenting with specific issues as a result of being a “limited part” (e.g., depressed because they’re dissociated from any good feelings; personality disordered because they contain only a few extreme behavior patterns). that’s kind of the extent of any Expertise we’ve seen.

Buuut we do have plenty of thoughts, and you asked when we’re as talkative as we have been, so here we go :V

We’re actually kinda in that situation: Serpent has BPD (therapist-acknowledged!) and various trauma-related stuff, structural dissociation, etc. which y’know is meant to have some basis in something neurological. but it’s all related to exotrauma and so sorta by definition can’t be affecting “our” neurology. his mood episodes are sorta different, too – and seem to be on a cycle unrelated to Thomas’ and mine.

(S- “yes yes we know I’m a mess” look there aren’t many other places to point to in this system, ok)

I mean, I’m very much materialist, so theoretically this should all be neurons, but, hm. I guess the big issue to me is treating disorders as distinct neurologies – that A Bipolar Brain is a certain delineated type, and looks the same as all other Bipolar Brains. That’s just not something we can sign onto, not yet. Probably, with a lot of these subjective aspects of multiplicity – identities, whatever makes system members different people, including different disorders – “it’s neurons” explains it only marginally better than “it’s molecules”. like, yes, but where do we go from there.

Like, what are we gonna count as “the same disorders through different lenses” then? Me+Thomas vs. Serpent have very different mood episodes, where we tend atypical and Serpent tends melancholic and possibly psychotic? (there’s overlap with BPD/dissociative psychosis there; like goood the BPD v. bipolar stuff is its own damn mess, if you want to talk mental health categories). Atypical v. melancholic seem to respond differently to medication, and psychosis bumps one into either bipolar I or schizoaffective territory. So, does that all get captured as “makes sense because bipolar”, or is that Supposedly Impossible?

I guess the point I’m getting at is that we’re suspicious of anything that claims too solidly that all the features of X disorder can be boiled down to neural mechanisms (and are therefore either fully absent or present across a system). And most takes on mental illness don’t! Disorders are just as often talked about as maladaptive thought patterns or as having a cognitive causal “step” in between neuron and symptom: PTSD isn’t “just” an overactive amygdala (it isn’t identified “just” in the amygdala, but I’m simplifying); it’s taking various maladaptive steps to avoid that anxiety (avoidance symptoms), possible behaviorist-model trained responses, etc. Bipolar is treated with the same sorts of CBT that people throw against more environmental depressions.

You can probably get at the same result from all sorts of different underlying neurologies, possibly via similar cognitive mechanisms (otherwise, comorbidity would not make sense – how could both bipolar and OCD, imagined as separate things, be influencing the same brain?). You can probably get at lots of different results from the same underlying neurological structures (in whatever way you want to take two brains and compare them). That’s sorta a nature vs. nurture question, I think – to what extent does external context influence symptoms? But also, to what extent does internal context influence symptoms?

If that makes sense? That is, maybe there’s something where “the same neurological structure”, working through the sociocognitive structure we call “Ace”, results in a depressive mood episode and whatever else you want to say about me; through Serpent and his specific set of memories and tendencies, it’s depersonalization.

… i feel like im making a category mistake there, but this whole thing is just mind-body dualism fuckery, isn’t it.

anyway, im not really that skilled on the neuroscience side of things, so take that aspect of things with a grain of salt ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ still, i’m always struck by the idea that it should “make sense” that Serpent and me are both bipolar, even when i look at his depression and go “wtf are these symptoms, pathological guilt?? immense self-loathing??” that it’s weirder that Serpent considers himself allistic, than the fact that we once had a headmate with such a different set of autistic traits that it was kinda hard to communicate with him at times. And that “different mental illnesses” is more striking, more in need of explanation than “different ages; different genders (aren’t people trying to find the neurological basis of that?); different MBTI profiles; whatever.”

- Ace