Cluster A - Tumblr Posts
people with ‘scary’ and ‘weird’ mental issues i love you.
i love schizophrenics. i love psychotic people, i love people on the schizospectrum, i love people with DID and OSDD, i love people with NPD, i love people with PPD, i love people with SPD, i love people with ASPD, i love people with personality disorders, i love people who hallucinate, people who have delusions, and people who have paranoia. i love people who are mentally ill in ways that are viewed as strange and scary by society.
it is not your fault that you struggle. you are valid. you are deserving of care and you are deserving of love. your issues do not negate any of that.
*in an America Ferrara voice*
You have to achieve things but you can’t say you’re achieving things you have to say you’re “not that good” but you also have to be achieving things.
You have to lie but you can’t say you’re lying because that’s immoral.
You have to comfort people but never tell them the whole truth. You have to listen to them put themselves down but you can never agree with them.
You’re supposed to be proud of yourself but don’t talk about yourself all the damn time. You have to look after yourself but also never let your friends down.
You're expected to always know what people are feeling, which is impossible, but when you point that out you’re accused of being a bad person.
You have to stay supportive for your friends but not so supportive that it comes off as insincere or that it comes off as favouritism because you’re supposed to be a good friend to all of your friends but always be the best for everyone and always be grateful.
But never forget that you have best friends too so find a way to acknowledge that but always be grateful.
You’re supposed to never get tired, never be rude, never show off, never be selfish, never get overwhelmed, never fail, never show annoyance, never show exhaustion.
It’s too hard! It’s too contradictory and nobody gives you a medal or says thank you!
And it turns out that not only are you doing everything wrong but also everything is your fault.
I’m just so tired of watching myself and every single other neurodivergent person tie themselves into knots so people will like us.
And if all of that is expected and no one will even explain that it is to people who don’t know then I don’t even know.
“Don’t let your disorder define you”
Okay but do you support the people whose disorders do define them?
Do you support people with the chronic illnesses who have had to develop whole lives around their conditions? Do you support the intellectually disabled people whose whole way of thinking is defined by their disorder? Do you support the people with personality disorders who literally have a disorder as a personality? Do you support the autism/ADHD people whose disorder you can’t separate from who they are? Do you support the DIDOSDD people who have multiple definitions of themselves because of their disorder?
Or are you just saying that because a disorder defining someone means you can’t ignore it.
Reblog/interact if your blog is a safe space for all people struggling with their Cluster A, B, and C personality disorder regardless of whether they are high or low-functioning in their disorder.
Undiagnosed
How did I manage to get to my early twenties and am only now starting to get diagnosed with asthma, several allergies, and a cluster a personality disorder? Oh right, whenever I had an issue I was told to suck it up and try harder.