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Reblog this post if you are professionally diagnosed and you support informed self diagnosis and you hate people accusing others of faking disorders when they have no evidence to support that
As a psych major - 100% agree.
In fact, I would take it one step further. We should abolish named diagnoses entirely and just treat the symptoms each individual has on an individual basis. All known mental illnesses are just what a group of what I can only assume is mostly white male psychologists coming together, deciding what symptoms fall under what categories and should be given what names, and then call it a day.
If that isn’t enough for you, then maybe take a second to think about exactly how many mental illnesses as currently defined have *ridiculously* similar symptoms, and how that’s one of the many reasons getting a diagnosis is so difficult.
do you guys wanna see me quickly and effectively piss off psych majors
Nothing about Luke’s diagnosis was funny. Brad found himself laughing anyway. Why wouldn’t it stop? Then Brad thought it might be better just to go on with it. Maybe Luke would just go away. If only he didn’t live next door. Oh God. Was he still laughing?! This was way past explanation. Maybe Chris would take a picture.
(Click!)
Could he be a Daddy at 22? Brad did not know how age played into it.
Luckily, the spat between Brad and Chris ended when their neighbor Luke stepped in to announce the pool party he hosted was on Memorial Day. It was Labor Day, and no, they were not the same holiday. Juneteenth was also it’s own thing and indeed was new in an official capacity. It had been around for quite some time in reality so it was nice to finally see it recognized.
Luke then offered to stir up some taco dip if Brad and Chris wanted to stay.
Well, this was sufficiently awkward. This was by far Brad and Chris’ biggest infraction since the diagnosis debacle.
That’s a word correct? Debacle?
Anyway, how the h-e double hockey sticks were they going to get out of this one?
Maybe Chris would take another picture. (Click!)
IJBOL Oh god. For whatever reason, Brad’s neighbor Luke’s diagnosis still made him laugh. Why couldn’t he just stop? Luke was standing right there, and his boyfriend Chris wasn’t helping.
Click!
The photo Chris took of Brad hit Insta 10 seconds later.
A unique and discerning, apt opinion..! I love the thought of Hisoka specified through fighting in the contrary to his widely-sought sexualized persona. Hisoka is truly unique, and rich with personality and scripted integrity--- I cannot appreciate, nor encourage, deep reflections of him and other characters. This perception is rich and acutely stated. 🙏🥰♥️🌠✨✨
Im about to get controversial.
Out of chrollo, illumi and hisoka, hisoka is canonically the least likely to flirt to get anything he wants, if at all.
A lot of people think he's a natural flirt but I fear I couldn't have disagreed more. He only "flirted" a single time and that was solely to piss off machi, knowing she'd never agree. Hot take? He would've never asked if he knew she'd agree.
Also, bro's the biggest humanphobe in the anime. He keeps his distance from everyone. The only human physical contact he ever made was through fighting people. (If you're a person thats interested in seeing more evidence, I have an entire long thread about it on twitter that I do plan on posting here soon)
so u cannot give me 1 reason for hisoka to flirt with someone at a random bar but chrollo and illumi? i can think of a few.
chrollo, he already canonically flirts to get what he wants. straight up goes on dates gets a suit and shit. he has no reputation among the general public that hes concerned of that isnt the spider. Illumi? He's a manipulator. I HIGHLY doubt he never flirted to get something in his life from people who are too easy to win over. He's someone that wouldn't care what people think of him. He's also anonymous. People have no idea who tf he is anyways. If it affected the zoldyck reputation? Thats a different story.
Hisoka? he would fucking NEVER. Him specifically? HE HAS A REPUTATION. And whats that reputation? That hes an absolute disgusting freak that no one should dare to approach. He kills people. He fights live and makes sure the audience is always disgusted and weirded out by his actions and performances. You look at him and you should immediately look away and pray he hasn't seen you.
So riddle me this. If his entire shtick is making sure everyones afraid of him and avoids him, then why the hell would he get himself a reputation that makes him approachable????
Why would he get himself a reputation that makes you, as a person who only ever heard of him picking people up, want to approach him.
On top of that, I just.. don't see him picking random people up..??? random weaklings that dont even know nen????? he literally treats them like trash that inconveniences his time. You're saying he'd EVER give them the privilege of sleeping with him???
And then you'd say, oh so he'd sleep with strong people! HERES THE THING. Why would he sleep with them..... when he can fight them. Him getting off from fighting comes NOWHERE to actual sex. What people don't understand is that he gets off to killing people and seeing them crumble in front of him when they realize theyre going to die. Torturing people to death. What's... that got to do with like. yknow. actual sex bro 😭😭😭😭😭😭
this turned into a huge rant probably but do you know how genuinely depressing it is seeing a unique character like hisoka that gains lust through FIGHTING and KILLING reduced to. sex addict in fics. Like. be so fucking serious right now. He called himself a FIGHT ADDICT in the manga. Can I see more of him actually spending his time killing and fighting people instead of whatever the hell bros doing with a random npc.
Anyways this is also why I hc him as asexual/demisexual NEXTTTT
hm yeah the more I think about it the funnier it is that I came out of adhd testing with a diagnosis but not an adhd diagnosis they just looked at all the numbers and said "yeah there's definitely something wrong with your brain" and that's basically all my diagnosis is
IM SO HAPPY I JUST GOT MY OFFICIAL ADHD DIAGNOSIS. LIKE OFFICIALLY. PROPERLY. and also got diagnosed with like mild anxiety BUT WHATEVER I NOW KNOW WHATS WRONG WITH MY FUCKING BRAIN AND CAN HELP MYSELF OUT MORE WOOHOOOO
And now I have an excuse for when my math teacher yells at me
Autistic community of tumblr I call upon you!
I passed my whole life feeling like an alien, being left out etc. I was bullied during all time in school and friends groups left me and I didn’t understand why. I thought that all of these traits and my situation came from being traumatised but it didn’t sit right with me.
So, then came TikTok. I know, I know, it’s not the right way, but please read until the end. All the things that were described in the autism tag were very similar to experiences of mine. Being very sensitive to noises, doing random noises, not understanding social cues, being tone deaf, a lot of them intertwined with my life experience and difficulties.
I read papers and reflected on it for years. This year I met a bunch of neurodivergent people that encouraged me to get a diagnosis.
That’s when I talked about this with my mom and opened Pandora’s box.
My father was autistic (he’s dead now so no way to confront him) he was not diagnosed but he never wanted to but knew what it was because he was a doctor and autism apparently runs in my family (I had other autistic undiagnosed relatives).
So, because I was weird when I was little I got tested. Yeah, tested for autism.
And you know what? I was deemed as “having autistic traits but being too good functioning and having a genius personality, so no need for support”. What the fuck does that mean. Like what in the eugenetic bullshit does that mean. I know it was the early 2000s when autism was not seen as a spectrum so either I was non-verbal or was “ok” but what the fuck does that mean. I would take it as a diagnosis but I do not know genuinely how to take it.
So, any experienced autistic person has advice?
Neurodivergent: a list
A list of those who are included under the "neurodivergent" label.
Applied Neurodiversity
Dyscalculia
Dysgraphia
Dyslexia
Dysnomia
Dyspraxia
Dissociative disorders
Depersonalization-derealization disorder (DpDr)
Dissociative amnesia
Dissociative identity disorder (DID)
Other specified dissociative disorder (OSDD)
Unspecified dissociative disorder
Eating disorders:
Anorexia nervosa
Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)
Binge-eating disorder
Bullimia nervosa
Pica
Mental illnesses:
Anxiety
Delusional disorder
Depression
Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD)
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Personality Disorders:
Cluster A:
Paranoid personality disorder
Schizoid personality disorder
Schizotypal personality disorder
Cluster B:
Antisocial personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder (BPD)
Histrionic personality disorder (HPD)
Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)
Cluster C:
Avoidant personality disorder
Dependent personality disorder
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Other:
Personality change due to another medical condition
Personality disorder not otherwise specified (PD-NOS)
personality disorder trait specified (PD-TS)
Tic disorder
Chronic motor or vocal tic disorder
Tourette syndrome
Transient tic disorder
other
Acquired Brain Injuries (ABI)
Angelmans Syndrome
Auditory processing disorder
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Body integrity identity disorder (BIID)
Bipolar disorder
Depersonalization-derealization disorder (DPDR)
Down syndrome
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD)
Fragile X syndrome
Hyperlexia
Intellectual disability
Irlen Syndrome
Meares-Irlen Syndrome
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
Obsessive love disorder (OLD)
Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS)
Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS)
Prosopagnosia
Savant Syndrome
Schizophrenia
Synesthesia
Williams Syndrome/Williams Beuren Syndrome
This is by no means a full list.
If you: see that I'm missing something, or
want me to rephrase something, or
have a resource to share, or
have a suggestion for organizing the list
please let me know in the comments/rebloggs.
I'm autistic and I love making lists. I also hope it may help spread awareness about neurodivergent people!
I am not an expert. But I do believe that we should be careful to include people in the neurodivergent umbrella. We are stronger together.
Updated: 9/2/24
Hey y'all I was just wondering, is it ok for me to self diagnose myself with AuDHD and Dyscalculia?
I've done lots of research on it and I check off a lot of boxes and I relate to a lot of the neurodivergent memes and characters
I noticed that I get along better with neurodivergent people and a few people in my life have mentioned that I might have AuDHD+Dyscalculia
I really want to get an official diagnosis but my mom could care less about helping me and I think it requires money (I'm poor ASF)
I did go to a place awhile back that said I was "mentally disabled" but they didn't say with what unfortunately....
Am I still valid for not wanting to go through all the process of being diagnosed (multiple diagnosis)?
I am autistic and already did tests with someone and at the end she basically said yeah you are autistic BUT you're gonna need to take an appointment there and you're gonna have to do that and it's probably gonna take months for you to GET the appointment, etc...
The thing is, just going through these tests was already much for me, I had like 4-5 appointments with her cause I met her then the tests were divided during 3 different appointments and rada rada it took a bit yk
So anyways, I might have ADHD, BPD, OCD too and maybe other things but I just idk I feel like I really don't have the energy to do so many tests and I know it might be bad but I just- can't it's so much and I just don't like doctors, psychiatrists and all of that in general. But am I still valid?
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Feeling these lyrics today
a quick poem about our host's experience being diagnosed with DID
Diagnosis A pile of papers rest on my lap My history laid bare Yet it reads like fiction
I peer at the white-coat and tilt my head ‘Surely, this is a story?’ He shakes his head and explains
My mind fractured Far before I was old enough to remember it He explains my mind is in little parts ‘alters’ he calls them
The definition reverberates through my consciousness “Alter: a change in character or composition, typically in a comparatively small but significant way.”
I shake my head, a laugh bursting from my chest Humorous; stop messing with me He frowns
‘I’m not.. you have a personality disorder’
If I have a personality disorder, the world is flat He hands me another leaflet Dissociative identity disorder, formerly Multiple personality disorder—
my eyes blur before I can read the rest suddenly it makes sense every day, you’re a different side shame washes through my body
he says they have names and suddenly i feel ill
A kindly voice murmurs reassurance I can’t see her But she’s as real as my beating heart "Welcome to the family, kid"
Not an OSDD system, but as you (OP) said, a lot of it comes from back when OSDD was called DDNOS in the DSM IV.
DDNOS-1a and DDNOS-1b were legitimate psych diagnoses pre DSM-V, and a lot of information was updated to say OSDD, but didn't take into account the removal of 1, 1a, and 1b (I wouldn't be surprised if people used find and replace on website resources)
DDNOS 1 – DID but switching not observed by clinician, or amnesia for the significant past but not everyday life. DDNOS 1a – Like DID, but with less distinct parts/no alters. Alters may be emotional fragments or the same individual at different ages. Can experience emotional amnesia rather than physical amnesia. DDNOS 1b – Like DID, but no amnesia between alters.
Similar to how some chose to continue calling themselves MPD, those that were diagnosed using the DSM-IV or earlier just chose to continue using those clarifiers, or they find adding the clarifiers create a shortcut to explaining their symptom set; especially in system spaces.
P-DID isn't recognised in the DSM, however it is used in the ICD* *Chapter 6 of the ICD specifically covers mental, behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders. Moreover, while the DSM is the most popular diagnostic system for mental disorders in the US, the ICD is used more widely in Europe and other parts of the world, giving it a far larger reach than the DSM. An international survey of psychiatrists in sixty-six countries compared the use of the ICD-10 and DSM-IV. It found the former was more often used for clinical diagnosis while the latter was more valued for research.[14] This may be because the DSM tends to put more emphasis on clear diagnostic criteria, while the ICD tends to put more emphasis on clinician judgement and avoiding diagnostic criteria unless they are independently validated. That is, the ICD descriptions of psychiatric disorders tend to be more qualitative information, such as general descriptions of what various disorders tend to look like. The DSM focuses more on quantitative and operationalized criteria; e.g., to be diagnosed with X disorder, one must fulfill 5 of 9 criteria for at least 6 months - wikipedia (DSM). Who does your diagnosis and what country you are in will influence whether you're able to get a P-DID diagnosis; the same goes for complex PSTD. C-PSTD (complex ptsd) is only recognised as a diagnosis by the ICD, however there is hope that with the DSM-VI (DSM-6) that they may add C-PTSD as a differing diagnosis from PTSD.
Question for OSDD-1a/1b systems: Why do you use 1a/1b?
I ask because 1a and 1b do not exist within OSDD. What you're thinking of is DDNOS-1a/1b which are outdated. Similar to how MPD is the outdated term for DID. To my knowledge, OSDD-1a/1b has never been a thing before. OSDD is just OSDD or P-DID, depending on where you live. So where did this idea come from in system communities? You can't be diagnosed with OSDD-1a/1b, so if you've done extensive research to self diagnose with this, where did you get the idea that OSDD-1a/1b is a thing instead of just OSDD or P-DID? *DISCLAIMER: This is not asked out of hate. I am genuinely curious. Genuine answers will not be met with arguments.*
agh, studying is so tiring, but I'm trying to get through it all! Of course physically I'm very tired, and mentally too, but I'll fix that soon, hopefully.... When I was watching the MLP creepypasta, I saw this pony, and I was blessed to be able to do it in 30 minutes. Here's the result. Waaaah, I'm going to rest, and good luck to you!!!