#i don't have a diagnosis yet

[black-rose-irl]

I love playing the period roulette.

The rules are: Will I be too sick to go to work today?

[fennthetalkingdog]

Y'all I just watched Jaiden Animations' video about learning she has ADHD and man... some of that stuff just hit me hard. The having to tie yourself down to work, the being relatively okay in school until college, the wondering if a doctor would just say, "It's a you problem, go away"—geez that resonated. I'm glad she finally got a diagnosis and Adderall and learned how to work best with herself though! I hope things start to turn out better for her as time goes on

[sunsestart]

as an audhd, papyrus is also autism and adhd, yes

Oh YES definitely

[unstablemotions]

people: you need to get an official diagnosis from a psychiatrist!!!

psychiatrists: *misdiagnosed me with different things like +4 times and filled me with unnecessary medicine*

[void-of-unparalled-chaos]

The Healthcare horrors persist

Hhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[totally-italy]

Do y'all ever see someone you know and kind of just go like 'oh my gods, so much neurodivergence in one person. I mean, how is it possible that you haven't been diagnosed yet?' in the most respectful way possible, and then just struggle to listen to anything they have to say without linking it to your mental catalogue of ASD and ADHD symptoms?

[thediamondarcher]

I got back from the psychiatrist and oh my

[jadegr8]

me @ my japanese teacher after the lesson: yeah and i use duolingo to hold my language level in between courses and to practice a few kanji

them: yeah i noticed how you immediately picked up on the new grammar

me who had never seen that particular grammar rule before: thanks but those were my

[astranauticus]

so i was listening to rolling with difficulty s3e8 and

[echo-has-queries]

You'd think all my electronics malfunctioning and making all the thinfs I want to do today an agonizing process of constant frustration would make me stop. Do something else for a while.

But this is what I wanna do right now so not doing it would be worse so here I am, angrily clicking and tapping, having the best time I can have today. I GUESS.

[clownfangs]

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[iwanttobepersephone]

So there's this girl who talks about how misinformation and stuff actually affects autistic people and after seeing her in my recommendations I finally sat down and watched her and after like 2 hours of an autistic person thoroughly explaining what it's like to actually be autistic I am realizing that despite my personal disagreeance that Halt is autistic the way I portray him in my head very easily lines up with pretty much everything she has said.... so maybe a couple of my headcanons are wrong lol

[thesnadger]

I may need to muscle my brain around to accepting the possibility that I'm going to be in varying levels of constant pain for more than a year, possibly several years, and I hate that more than anything in the world.

[anti-ao3]

when people say "narcissist" i'm always like, "self-centered", "egotistical", "vain", "self-absorbed", et cetera are right there, and that's what you actually mean. use those. but using "narcissist" lets people pathologize and feel intellectual about things 🙄

i used to watch a youtuber who had spoken before about the demonization of various mental disorders, but then she used the phrase "narcissistic abuse" and i made a very polite comment, assuming the best, and was like "hey that's a really harmful phrase to use, especially when what you're describing has an actual correct term, emotional / psychological abuse, you wouldn't call something 'anxiety abuse' or 'autism abuse', would you?" and she then doubled down and said "well sometimes mental health professionals use it so it can't be ableist". as if no one in the history of psychiatry was ever ableist like?

ironic because she had also made multiple videos where she discussed people who used dated or incorrect language, were politely corrected by a fan, and then doubled down instead of examining themselves. and here she was doing the same thing :-/

Wow, that's very hypocritical of her. You can't call out ableist language and stigma, and then use a very ableist term. Worst part is, she didn't even apologize or recognize her mistake. Mental health professionals can be ableist, indeed.

I think that's what pisses me off the most about the stigma around NPD, even "progressive" people use narcissists as scapegoats. And very few mental health professionals DON'T demonize narcissists. Literally every time there's a discussion about abuse, people always bring up "narcissistic abuse". And it's like you said, they act like they're intellectual, "oh have you heard about narcissistic abuse?", and they pretend they know what they're talking about because they read it somewhere. And apparently everyone forgets that NPD, just like other Cluster B disorders, tend to develop due to childhood trauma.

I remember going to a partial hospitalization program, where they said "oh no judgment here, everyone is welcome". But then people were demonizing narcissists. I remember only ONE therapist there pointing out "hey you know NPD is a personality disorder and no one is evil for having it, right". But I'm pretty sure that was forgotten.

I may not have NPD, but I deeply sympathize with everyone who has it. We really need more people and spaces who treat NPD right, considering all the misinformation online (ESPECIALLY on TikTok).

[daz4i]

funniest (/s) irony about my pains is that the only painkiller that actually helps (mostly, not entirely) likely also makes them worse in the long run. i just love having a body and being alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[advisorsage]

I think I've fucked up