Plural Culture Is Asking Yourself, Am I Faking It? And A Headmate Immediately Replying, Im Real, Dumbass

plural culture is asking yourself, “am i faking it?” and a headmate immediately replying, “i’m real, dumbass”

Being a fat person with ARFID (an ED) sucks, because on one hand you've got the stereotype of fat people loving food and always eating and constant jokes about it, but you find food disgusting and the act of eating it a chore you despise, but on the other, ppl w EDs are stereotyped as usually thin/skinny, but, again, you are fat and do not fit this idea of what a person with an ED looks like. So it all around just completely sucks

this is your friendly reminder that faking is a conscious choice. you can’t fake unintentionally.

you can be mistaken, and that’s ok! there’s no shame in that. you chose the label that best fit the information you had at the time. that’s just part of life, and that means you’re growing and learning more about yourself.

it’s ok to be unsure, don’t be too hard on yourself. you’ll figure it out, in time. <3

Am I the only one who despises "pervasive drive for autonomy" as an alternative to "pathological demand avoidance"?

PDA takes away so much of my ability to decide for myself what to do; it robs me of my autonomy. I struggle with doing things I enjoy because I make them into demands in my head, I can't watch weekly-airing shows because I tell myself that I have to, that I love this show, that I need to watch the next episode, and then no longer being able to. Because my brain has decided that it just Must go into fight or flight because... I am trying to decide what to do.

It just feels... gross, I guess, to dress it up as "i just have a strong sense of autonomy, i just don't like being told what to do ^_^" when it is genuinely disabling to me, not just in when other people try to influence me, but also when I want to do something and PDA prevents me.