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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

diagnoses aren’t Tumblr tags, they aren’t social spaces, they aren’t validation.

they are a kind of agreement among doctors, hospitals, insurers, government services, etc over who has the power and the responsibility to do what to whom

e.g. what diagnoses require that someone be given access to pain medication? what diagnoses allow someone to be held in a psychiatric hospital, nursing home, or long term care facility against their will?

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silkysong
kelpforestdwellers

remember: don't chase the pain. if you're lucky enough to have access to an adequate supply of painkillers, use them early. if your pain is episodic, not continuous, hit the pain as soon as you notice it and your chances of avoiding a bad episode improve.

if you wait around to see if it gets 'bad enough' for painkillers, you're more likely to end up in a lot of pain that's difficult to control.

the tricky part is, if you do it right, it feels like you did it wrong. because if you catch the pain early before it gets bad, it often feels like 'it never got that bad so maybe i didn't need the medication.'

but it didn't get that bad BECAUSE of the medication! you did it right. it's okay to use the tools at your disposal. fuck the stigma.

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os2warp
soberscientistlife

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Where are the Anti-Trust laws when you need them?

tparadox

Thank the Chicago School economists for that. They spent a stupid amount of money to take judges and legislators to resorts and tell them that trust busting was an entirely wrong approach to antitrust law, the real metric of if a merger was bad wasn't "will there be less competition", but "will it hurt or benefit the consumer, and the only one you need to bother asking is the company that wants the merger."

At this point they barely even bother asking, just of course it's a win win.

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evilios
evilios

I need you to understand that people-pleasing behavior isn’t limited to any specific group of mentally ill individuals. It’s a trauma response that can happen to any of us.

Narcissists can be people-pleasers too. Hell, a lot of us are because both NPD and people-pleasing behavior aim for the same thing: to get a positive reaction out of others. It might not seem obvious but a lot of us, despite the myth of grandeur we’re expected to perform, are actually very pleasant individuals to be around - sometimes even the “best people you get to meet”. Because a lot of us aim to please you for our own comfort. Because a lot of us are traumatized into being perfectionists and do-no-wrongs that need, crave positive affirmation for our behaviours.

This is one of many reasons why people with NPD become victims to emotional abuse so often and why so many of us have high chances of being trapped in toxic relationships: the fear of being imperfect in the eyes of another, as ridiculous as it is, is a terrific obstacle to overcome. It’s exposing ourselves to potential vulnerability, to judgement, and to a chance of a crash.

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hottyrant
hottyrant

I feel like posts such as "people with no empathy aren't killers and abusers" are more for NTs rather than people with no/low empathy. Idk about you but those absolutely do not resonate with me. Duh, I'm not a serial killer or a monster. I don't know why you would focus so much on this one stereotype of aspd/npd/anything else that is connected to low empathy. Thanks for trying to do some good for us though?

the-idea

yeah I’m much more interested in like, how people with low empathy interact with and experience the world, beyond just “we’re not monsters!”

tbh as someone with certain delusions I don't always know that I'm not a monster but that's not to do with empathy but with Balint's «basic fault» aspd npd mental illness stigma
hackercult
spaghettioverdose

There's only one real way to categorise disorders and it's when you google it and the first results fit into one or more of the following categories:

1. "Is your child-" "Does your child-" "How to cope with the burden of being a parent for-"

2. "How to get better: Step One: have a lot of money!" "How to get better: Step One: simply stop having it!"

3. "10 Ways To Spot Sickopaths With This Disorder So You Can Protect Yourself" "The Bad People Disease -by Dr. Eugene X."

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loving-n0t-heyting
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autisticandoddlyspecific

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I'm actually so shocked right now. I had no idea the diagnosis of autism was so recent.

loving-n0t-heyting

A couple of things I like to point out about Leo kanners “autistic disturbances of affective contact” (the 1944 paper that introduced the diagnosis, Triplett was the first of eleven case studies described in it):

  • The children described were, generally, at least somewhat verbal and eventually attained at least moderate levels of legible-to-kanner functionality:
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  • Kanner comments briefly on the detached child rearing style of the subjects’ parents, but specifically denies it a dominant role in explaining the syndrome:
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Both these fly in the face of standard mythology about the history of the diagnosis. It did not first emerge as a classification exclusively for severely and permanently impaired individuals, and the first consideration of the “refrigerator mother” etiology was against it. These points are painfully obvious to anyone reading the actual text, which is widely cited and easily available; the prevalence of these myths therefore suggests some very deeply embedded prior assumptions about what the history of a developmental diagnosis must look like, in order to be this impervious to the plain facts

This isn’t to sing the praises of the paper uncritically: it engages at points in outright phrenology, generalises far too freely from its n = 11, and is at root an expression of a radically objectionable pathologising attitude towards psychological and developmental variety. But it should give ppl pause just how poorly it fits with what Everyone Knows about autism’s historical recognition as a psychiatric condition

loving-n0t-heyting

Better a paternalising liberal medical outlook on psychological/developmental variety tho than that endorsed by the other, contemporary discoverer of the condition: these children are good and valuable future contributors to the glories of the German Reich, as opposed to true retards who deserve to be murdered

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loving-n0t-heyting
loving-n0t-heyting

Leo kanner: so there’s this weird tendency I’ve noticed among my subjects suffering from my newly discovered Smart But Detaxhed From Ppl Disease that their parents come across as kind of cold and obsessive, but the disease itself seems to be at least largely biological in origin… wat mean?

Some fucking idiots unfamiliar with the concept of “hereditary traits”: so what you are saying is moms not hugging their kids enough makes them into mental defectives

(Bc not everyone is blessed with reading comprehension: no, autism is not a disease or mental defect but this was essentially the attitude of kanner plus responders)

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five-thousand-loaves-of-bread

“i fail to understand how autistic people are simultaneously seen as struggle w empathy and have a strong sense of justice” said as if it’s a gotcha. look at these these silly silly ignorant neurotypicals contradicting themselves 🙃

hi i am autustic i have no empathy i also have a so called “strong sense of justice.” we exist. what you say is not a gotcha. it just shows how shallow of an understanding of autism is.

if you’re an autistic w high empathy, great! stop punching down at autistic w low empathy or people w low empathy in general.

are you saying people with low empathy don’t have a sense of justice? that we don’t know right from wrong? people with low empathy are incapable of justice? people w low empathy are always criminals or bigoted? that we should just all be locked up? because even if you never explicitly said that, your rhetoric aligns with the rest of people who perpetuate ableism at autistics with low empathy and people w cluster b personality disorders. it can easily be extended.

people need to learn the difference between empathy, sympathy, and compassion.


also, a strong sense of justice isn’t even a great way to put it. autistics online in social justice circles throw this around as if autistics are immune to propaganda and prejudice. as if autistics are always good and pure.

overwhelming amount of incels are autistic men (esp those who is/would be diagnosed as having asperger’s).

strong sense of justice just means many of us, when we believe something, we believe something very strongly. similar to how when we like something, we like something very strongly (special interest). when we feel something, we feel something very strongly (or the opposite).

if your only experience w autistic people are autistic people who are late dx, lower support needs, speaking, and **in social justice circles with the same belief as you**, you can’t reach a conclusion about all of autism based on this very narrow experience of autistic people.

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also. the same autistic people who uses this “strong sense of justice”. are the same people who will say the most vile shit about actual high support needs autistics, people with ID, people w low empathy, people w schizophrenia spectrum & psychosis, ppl w AsPD HPD BPD and honestly any personality disorders. or any people that vaguely disagrees with you.

agentukelele

I think there needs to be positivity and support and help for people with Munchausen’s. I don’t know enough about it to make any myself, but heres the bare minimum I suppose

You’re not a bad person for having Munchausen’s Syndrome. You’re not some Harmful Faker Making Things Harder For Everyone Else. You’re included in the Everyone Else who needs help and support, and I hope you get it.


If anyone else knows important things to add, please do

[No “but By Proxys hurt people!” Thats literally not what this post is about]