I'm All 100% For Anti-psychiatry As A Movement But Please We Need Nuance. Autism Exists. Shouldn't Have

I'm all 100% for anti-psychiatry as a movement but please we need nuance. Autism exists. Shouldn't have to say that

Reblog if you agree students in schools shouldn’t be kicked out of activities, clubs, etc, just because of their gender identity or orientation

I think we need to separate disorder with diagnoses. I get that we're not far enough along in recognizing the harm of psychiatry that we will replace disorder framework with less pathologized labels

But we can make shift of disorder =/= diagnosis.

Diagnosis is legal, it's what labels the government gives you to impact your life in some way. Generally, unless you absolutely need some specific service that you absolutely cannot get without a diagnosis You Do Not Fucking Want One.

You should NEVER seek a diagnosis to feel validation for your experiences, that's making the irreversible decision to giving the government crucial information about your mental health. If the disorder is stigmatized a diagnosis strips you of your human rights.

It is literally just a legal acknowledgement of experiences you already have.

So yeah when you talk about disorders don't use the term diagnosis interchangeably, stop pushing therapy on everyone you're giving self help advice to, and stop prioritizing professional diagnosis as being more valid than alternatives.

This is how you get people killed and I'm being wholly serious. Therapy IS a gamble on safety for anyone south of mild depression and anxiety and you might not want to admit that but it's the truth. Stop telling people they have to play russian roulette with therapists to recover, please.

Hello Joe. Your child is chronically ill, but you insist that they just aren’t getting enough exercise. You have also claimed that their autism, ADHD, and dyspraxia make any situation a problem, and make any problem bigger. In addition to this, you have made several queerphobic and misogynist comments about your child’s asexuality and gender, and your wife’s pansexuality. You have also mentally and physically abused your child and wife and was absent for your child’s entire childhood. So absent that their earliest memory of you is from when they were ten. That’s a pretty long time to skip out on parenting your kid, Joe.

Because you have hurt your family in so many ways, today your family will hurt you! Your wife’s weapon of choice is poison, as she has described her relationship with you as “poisonous.” That poison is already coursing through your veins, rendering you immobile. Your child is simply going to beat you to death with the baseball bat that you threatened to break their school laptop with.

But! Like being a good parent, there is a way out of this. You can have a ten-minute conversation with your child and wife about how you treated them. If you say anything negative about them, imply that either of them have anything wrong with them, or yell at them, your kid is just going to beat you up. I mean, this is literally the easiest saw trap ever. Just be nice to your kid and you—are you kidding? I didn’t even let them talk to you yet and you start off with a slur? Fuck it, just kill him. Whatever.

eating him

eating him

us!

if you’re a system that is mostly or completely made up of nonhumans you’re cool as hell and we’re shaking your hand and giving you icecream