#me when my ex tried to relegate me to being the princess bubblegum to her marceline just because i dye my hair pink
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Was gonna leave my thoughts in the tags, but me writing my tags made me realize this and I feel it's worth leaving here: I think there is a lot of overlap between the people mentioned in the original post and the people who spend too much time in "traumacore" circles trying to obsessively categorize all of their personality traits into neat little well-defined disorder acronyms. I've noticed that coincidentally, a lot of those same people like to put their astrology sign(s) and/or Myers-Briggs types in their bios.
Not saying that any of those disorders aren't real or that everyone is faking them, but I'm talking about like... "Did you know [mundane thing a lot of people do] is actually a symptom of [disorder/neurodivergence]??" type stuff, where people try to define themselves by their disorders. Some people end up thinking that just because they are diagnosed with some condition that means everything they do is something that only people with [condition] do or that only other people with [condition] will ever truly relate to them.
Meanwhile, the truth is actually much more boring; you can't categorize every single aspect of human existence, and there is a large overlap in every single human experience. If participating in online discussions related to your trauma/diagnoses is helpful to you, there is nothing wrong with that, but you are doing yourself a disservice if you start believing that nobody will understand you unless you state upfront that you have a personality disorder, mental illness, or other neurodivergence.
do you think that a certain genre of queer person is so obsessively weird about pride flag discourse becuase their flags fill the gaping hole in their personality where a hogwarts house used to be
#me when my ex tried to relegate me to being the princess bubblegum to her marceline just because i dye my hair pink#she would buy me ugly pink shit all the time thinking it was 'so me' like girl you know im a real person right?#and my room and house was like clearly decorated in light blues because that is my favorite color but to her i was just 'the pink one'#and like having a favorite color is fine and there are tons of aesthetics i like and if you spent 5 minutes with youd probably easily#figure out all of them but this girl lived in my house and didnt pay any fucking attention to anything i actually did or said#but it wasnt just me she was constantly trying to reduce everyone around her to archetypes like girly thats not how people work...#and here is where i started to say that she got really into traumacore tiktok while trying to get her life together and ended up just#becoming the worst version of herself because she believed that having disorders excused any bad behavior of hers when I#realized that it was actually a much larger pattern i noticed when looking at that corner of the internet for myself#lots of people who want so desperately to find answers to why certain things happened to them or why they act the way they do#that they conclude it MUST be due to xyz destiny factor that they were born with and not just the roll of the dice that is Life.
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