#silly symptoms

[nonbinarymlm]

We Need to Accept that Silly Things Can Hurt People

Please allow me to ruminate a bit more on mental health on this blog. I have ADHD and OCD, both disorders commonly stereotyped and conflated with minor, silly behaviors like yelling SQUIRREL when you see a squirrel and organizing things by color. These stereotypes can often minimize and erase the genuine difficulties and harm that these conditions can cause. That’s very true, and it often causes intense sensitively and knee-jerk denial around stereotypes around this. I don’t think that’s necessarily the best reaction, because sometimes people can have symptoms very similar to these stereotypes.

I think we need to accept that silly things can hurt people. Silly, ridiculous symptoms can devastate people’s lives. People shouldn’t have to react into their painful past and trauma to get people to take their symptoms seriously when those symptoms are silly on their face, because that turns things into a pain competition and can result in gatekeeping how much people must suffer before their seemingly ridiculous symptoms get taken seriously.

I think we just need to, as a society and culture and social norm, accept that silly things can genuinely, sometimes intensely, hurt people. Yes, I do have the impulse to tell an animal’s name when I see that animal, and yes it’s part of my symptoms that makes it harder to me to drive and hold conversations and do basic functioning. Yes, I do worry about incredibly tiny and silly things, that the world’s tiniest cut means I’m literally dying, and this has at times been incredibly miserable to live with and severely inhibited my functioning and nearly lost me a job. Also I’m going to joke about it sometimes because it’s funny. I’m not going to find a joke about it from a stranger with no OCD funny, because they have no idea how much pain it can cause me.

Sometimes these conditions are absurd in ways that are funny. That’s true and people with the conditions should be able to joke about it. But everyone needs to understand, just because a symptom is absurd doesn’t mean it can’t also devastate you and ruin your life. So if you don’t have these conditions and aren’t super close to someone who has them, I think you should be sensitive and avoid joking even if it seems silly and funny. I think there is where true destigmatization lies: accepting that the silly brain can also really hurt.

[radiomogai]

Please remember those in the MOGAI community who are not coiners. There is not enough appreciation for archivists, requesters, collectors, icon-makers, lurkers, accessibility blogs, everyone else. I believe that part of why there is so much pressure on coiners to coin consistently is because there is little value placed on any other activities within the community.

[tricking-and-ghosting]

wait can we talk about how yomiel was going by his dead wife's name. what the heck that's so sad

[dragon-in-a-fez]

when you dissociate and don't remember travelling to an unexpected place but you're still thinking about fish. call that being in a fugu state

[wannabepoeticischiya]

I was legit feeling NIKI's 'Tsunami' through my heart and soul. I was literally resonating with

then I opened Pinterest to maybe see some aesthetic Kazuya pics like

but instead I see these

I HONESTLY DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY I LIKE THIS GUY ANYMORE 😭 It's like he showed up one day and I told him he's cool then he just decided to follow me everywhere that it's inherently impossible to have a single coherent thought when he's around

Miyuki Kazuya everyone 👏 he's my husband. I abandoned my shyness and my dignity and my 100% introvertedness to contact every single figurine seller I know and had my friend scavenge through twt and carousell and tiktok to maybe find a single figurine of him (he found none 💀)

[moominvalley-state-of-mind]

Okay it’s like midnight but is it a nurodivergent or aroace thing to be like why is *insert action* romantic/sexual

Edit: okay so this was poorly written cause it was super fuckin early and i wanted to clear sum stuff up + I have no clue how to like idfk pin a rebog or smth anyways

I know I'm autistic, so im just wondering if this is something that i should expect from having ASD or if it could ALSO be a sign that I could be aroace

Yeah thx :]

[icewindandboringhorror]

sometimes looking at like Self Help Strategies lists for the symptoms I'm having is always just like:

thing that I already do

thing I have tried 10 times

thing I already do

thing that I don't have the money to do

thing I already do

thing I've been doing since I was 10yrs old to no avail

thing that is impossible given my situation

thing that doesn't apply to me

thing that I already do

thing I have already tried

hrmm, oh wait, maybe finally- OH, yeah.. okay. thing that I already do but it was just phrased slightly differently

thing I have already done

[bookshelfdreams]

americans learn what the middle ages are challenge

[happi-dreams]

i saw something and i remembered ‘oh yeah i do that!’

so fun tidbit about me - i’m quite afraid of specifically open toilets for some reason

[verved]

I want to frolic in traffic and sing lalalala

[cheeseknives]

I was watching James's latest q&a and the amount of people in the comments being concerned about his health really made me take a double take. Honestly I really just thought being bit shaky and stuttering while speaking was something that just comes with age, but now I'm not sure :-/

[scri--bble]

Weak. Something's wrong with his left eye.

[screams-for-three-hours-straight]

*smacks my brain with a stick* BE NICE *bonk* UR FRIENDS CARE ABOUT U *bonk* ITS OKAY IF UR A LITTLE ANNOYING *bonk* PPL WHO TRULY CARE ABT U STILL LOVE U IF UR ANNOYING *bonk* YOU HAVE HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS NOW *bonk* IF SOMETHING WAS WRONG THEY'D TELL U *bonk* NOBODY IS LEAVING U OR PULLING AWAY FROM U *bonk* U ARE JUST PARANOID BC UR A TRAUMATIZED MEOWMEOW *bonk* U ARE NOT LESS VALUABLE THAN OTHERS *bonk* U ARE WORTHY OF THE LOVE AND KINDNESS UR FRIENDS GIVE U *bonk* U DONT HAVE TO EARN LOVE *bonk* U DONT HAVE TO BE PERFECT FOR PPL TO VALUE U *bonk* U DONT HAVE TO PRETEND TO BE PERFECT AND OKAY WITH UR OWN SUFFERING *bonk* ITS NOT WEAKNESS TO LET PPL IN *bonk* THERE IS NO PIN U MUST WAIT ON TO DROP, UR FRIENDS DONT SECRETLY HATE U *bonk* U ARE VALUED AND LOVED U DUMB BITCH *bonk* U JUST NEED A SNACK AND SOME SLEEP *bonk bonk bonk* SMOKE SOME WEED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[vixensofdeath]

don’t trust me while driving I’m either gonna run people over, drive off a cliff, or crash all on purpose too

[linabirb]

spaced out a little while i was outside and didn't realize i was standing in the rain this whole time and now i really need to change my clothes but anyway got a silly idea to make a group of ocs which are just one guy who genuinely looks normal, has his life together, acts somewhat sane (at. first) but also has THE worst i can fix her mindset ever and a group of really cute girls who he dates in different timelines (OR in one single timeline. it's just one big epic polycule) and all of them have their issues and they genuinely love him but they're also like "he's so so nice to us we should make him question his morals and turn his life into hell and repeatedly ask him if he's helping us because he actually loves us or just bc he likes to feel in control and he wants us to stay vulnerable so that we'll never leave :)"

[thefabelmans2022]

does anyone else remember that period in 2020-2022ish where there were so many posts about how you cannot have hyperfixations if you don't have adhd or autism and saying something you're into is a hyperfixation when you're neurotypical is appropriating our struggles because hyperfixations are terrible and life ruining because i remember that and i still can't take it seriously and i don't believe anyone ever actually did except for the minecraft youtube stans who wrote the posts