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aspd-culture · 1 year

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Hello, you said on a post you were prof. diagnosed with ASPD - May I asked how that went? What did it look like?

Sure! Mine happened with a mix of two professionals and the input of a third smd fourth. Firstly, I went to a therapist and explained what I thought may be happening - that as far as a few friends with ASPD had told me, and what I had read online, I resonated with a lot of it and thought it would explain much of my symptoms - after a couple months of consistent weekly therapy, my therapist felt confident enough to evaluate me by verbally asking me about each criterion and found that she wasn't entirely sure that it was ASPD, mostly due to the law-abiding criterion and the aggression criterion not truly being met and the fact that she didn't think (from what I'd told her) that I would have met the criteria for Conduct Disorder during my childhood. I later would explain to her the things my psych evaluated that counted in her opinion that I simply hadn't yet gotten to with my therapist. She went to a colleague and they both felt uncertain it was ASPD and were leaning toward a mix of my already diagnosed PTSD and a potential for autism. She advised me to be evaluated for autism and go from there.

During the first autism evaluation appointment, my psych asked what brought it to my attention and I explained we were trying to rule out if it was autism causing symptoms that reminded me of ASPD ones. My psych suggested we do paper evaluations (where you read statements and honestly answer how much you agree with and relate to them) for both first, and we did.

After scoring those, we made another evaluation appointment at which she advised me both evaluations appeared to suggest diagnosis, but input from a colleague was that autism could appear as ASPD, unless of course there were any symptoms that didn't have any potential for overlap between the two. I explained the reason I felt I had ASPD - and got into my outlook on people, relationships, empathy, social interaction, etc. I don't think she was expecting me to feel the way I do about the world because I had been masking my symptoms for so long that I've become quite good at it for anyone who doesn't live with me.

At that point she was more convinced, and suggested we take 2 more paper evaluations. One was to fill the differential diagnosis thing and the other was a "psychopathy" screening. Whilst it is poorly named, it is a legitimate medical test for ASPD that just happens to be quite old.

Upon scoring those, she said she felt confident diagnosing me with both and did. She asked if I was ok, and that was that. I went to therapy as normal and let my therapist know what was diagnosed.

Both psych appointments were in serious symptom flares to the point where I could not mask and I can say that definitely helped me get a diagnosis, which is an upside to an otherwise extremely unpleasant situation for me. I prefer to keep things masked so as not to scare off the professionals I have built trust with.

Still, it got me answers and I appreciate that. Some professionals will use paper, whilst others will use direct DSM criteria in a verbal eval, and others still will diagnose in a more "covert" way to avoid skewed results or masked answers if you show enough symptoms to be diagnosed just through your talk therapy (though they should still tell you that you have it, but they may not say they're evaluating you for it). That is the only way that is super likely to be diagnosed in one appointment - otherwise expect it to take a few or even a lot if it's a new professional. Because PDs have to be persistent and consistent, they need to ensure it's a long term issue that has been and appears to continue to be happening at all times after onset.

I hope this helps!

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canyouhearthelight · 4 years

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SUPERB question I got on my recent post about privilege:

She is completely correct. There are a lot of laws and processes that have to change to stop this.

This list isn't comprehensive, but more an addition to the lists I've seen. I'm not a law student, and I'm not going to pretend I know every single flaw in our system. I'm still learning to see the flaws, so please feel free to add things and/or correct me.

1) Defund the police, and allocate those bloated budgets to education and community infrastructure.

A) Poorly funded schools create a vicious feedback loop that leaves all people of color, but ESPECIALLY black people, at a disadvantage later in life. Educational funding should be equal to or greater than any law enforcement funding, and teachers should earn more than a living wage.

B) There is no excuse for bad streets, crumbling buildings, and inconsistent utilities in different parts of the same city that also has an area with groomed medians, smooth roads, parks, and sidewalks. There's no sense in that. And it isn't the residents. It's the city who is responsible for keeping these things up. Residents have actually gotten in trouble for fixing broken infrastructure.

2) ALL first responders should have proper training and certification, specifically similar to nurses and special education teachers - nonviolent de-escalation techniques, rigorous background checks, proper restraint techniques that don't injure much less kill people, renewable at the expense if the person being certified every 2 years.

3) Decriminalize victimless crimes. The war on drugs was a sham, it was only intended to incarcerate people of color en mass and remove their right to vote, greatly limit their ability to hold better paying jobs, and enslave them legally. So decriminalize possession and use of drugs on a federal level, let them go.

4) Add to the EEOA legal limits on what felonies a person can be declined employment over, with burden of justification falling on the employer, along with limits to how old that conviction can be.

5) Nameless application process for all jobs. No names, no ethnicity, no gender presentation. Every application is assigned an ID#, just like a loan application, and all contact is done through a portal until the interviewee is approved or denied. Financial incentives for businesses that do this for the first 5 years until it is mandatory. Stop the binning of applications/resumes because of names. This includes application for internal promotion.

6) No. More. Private. Prisons. No one should be profiting off incarcerated people. Period.

7) Either let non-white collar criminals vote, or they don't count in your constituency. No more counting them one way and not counting them another way.

8) Mandatory rehabilitation and therapy programs in prisons, by licensed and certified professionals who are subject to random observation with no warning to ensure they are not abusing their position and actually doing their job.

9) Abolish the electoral college, go by popular vote.

10) Mandatory voting for all registered voters ($100 fine for non-compliance), but also making it easier to vote. I can take the freaking Census online, file my taxes online, renew my driver's license and tags online... why can't I vote online? WHY? Online voting with longer early voting periods would enable everyone to vote, and prevent things like 4 hour wait times for people in mostly-black districts.

11) Make all forms of racism illegal. I don't know how we can implement this, but obviously we white people can't be trusted to stop being racist on our own. And I'm not joking or being sarcastic. Every day, we see more and more examples of this in action. Racism isn't victimless, in case the lynchings and deaths in the news didn't sink in. In case anyone hasn't seen the mental health statistics, suicide rates, or general health statistics for people of color versus white people. Wealth gap = health gap.

12) Speaking of health: all healthcare workers need to be required to have specific training on all ethnicities and genders. Medical studies need to be re-done with an actual cross sample of the population, not just white men (or white women in women-specific studies). ALL OF THEM. People of color should not be under diagnosed or flat out misdiagnosed because you don't know how this very important symptom presents!

That is all I have right now. I'll think on it and try again. Please message me if I got any of this wrong, it didn't think something through to the end. I'm trying to straddle the line between not expecting black people to educate me and being willing to listen.

EDIT: I am trying to figure out where I can start to get these things done.

#squirrelsan

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robinsnest2111 · 3 years

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indirectly tagged by @lampmeeting

it's not part of the original thing but I'm gonna add a silly little self portrait as well~

Questions to get to know you a little better:

1. What do you prefer to be called name wise? Robin or any kind of nickname related to that you can come up with lol Some of my favourites are Rob and Robble

2. When is your birthday? November 21st

3. Where do you live? A little town in Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony), Germany. Known for being the summer residence of a royal bloodline some 200 years ago. Yes there's a castle :P

4. Three things I am doing right now? Trying to forget the nightmare I just woke up from, thinking about getting a few more clementines from the kitchen and fininishing a little sketch I started yesterday

5. Four fandoms that have piqued my interest: Metalocalypse (ofc), Hogan's Heroes, Ghost BC, What We Do In The Shadows. Those are the main 4 at the moment but there's always a chance for other fandoms to take over for a bit.

6. How has the pandemic been treating you? ....yeah. Not so great. My grandma died suddenly at the start of the pandemic, I had to leave my internship I was super happy at early because of lockdown, finished my last semester at college with horrible online classes, had to move back in with my parents, cut contact with someone I've known almost all my life, barely passed my finals, still on the hunt for a job (started applying to places in September) and am close to losing it any day now lol Also pandemic means no flea markets which was one of the few things keeping my brain happy and occupied while giving me a chance to ride my bike around the region for hours :^(((((

7. Song(s) I can’t stop listening to: Sadly no particular song coming to mind right now, but I've had Ghost's entire discography and Dethalbum I, II, and III on rotation for months now lol. This Toss A Coin To Your Witcher Remix has also been stuck in my head for a while and is always worth a listen (Also have some silly techno/hardstyle remixes stuck in my brain permanently because I listened to them as background noise while trying to make my final college projects somewhat decent. Terence Hill & Bud Spencer - Lalalalalala, Da Tweekaz - Jägermeister, Star Wars Hardstyle, DJ Ötzi - Anton aus Tirol, Das Leben des Brian - Schwanzus Longus)

8. Recommend a movie: The Road to El Dorado by Dreamworks, a children's movie, I know... Each song is an absolute banger tho (even the German versions!), the jokes are silly but fun, the queer/gay hints add that little spice that I subconsciously picked up on and felt comforted by as a kid and the design of the everything is just (chef's kiss) Also the chemistry between the 4 main characters is gud as heck. It's the childhood movie I latched on to the most, my mother had to rent the dvd almost every single day until I bought a copy myself lol

9. How old are you? 24 orz I don't feel like it at all...

10. School, university, occupation? Finished college in August, unemployed because no one wants to hire in the creative field during a worldwide plague :^)

11. Do you prefer heat or cold? As long as it's under 35°C I prefer heat. My hands and feet are icicles 95% of the time after losing weight :^(

12. Name one fact others may not know about you? Since I'm an expert oversharer you probably know almost everything about me already orz But uhhh. Lemme see... I learned how to operate a laundry machine at the ripe old age of 20 at my internship at a hair salon lmao My mother never had the nerve to show me how on the modern machine we have at home (along the lines of "you will fuck it up anyways so let me do it >:^(((" which is an overarching theme in her raising me lol), but the older machine with the simpler dials at the salon was a good start to learn and honestly one of the things at this internship I'm still super grateful for...

13. Are you shy? Oh hell yeah I am... It's all the years of getting only negative feedback for trying to interact with others lol

14. Preferred pronouns: He/Him mostly, still figuring out if I still like they/them or nah (since in German there are no neutral pronouns that aren't neopronouns I've automatically gotten more attached to he/him lol)

15. Biggest pet peeves: I feel so mean for admitting it but honestly: Any noises my parents make. If I'm having a particularly bad low brain energy day even hearing them breathe makes me wanna run away and scream in anger... (Doesn't irk me with anyone else tho, which is weird...)

16. What is your favorite "dere" type? Oh there's more than 4 types now?? I've always liked Kuudere types the most out of the original 4 types, but I guess Shundere and Utsudere are right up my alley too!!!

The Kuudere (クーデレ), sometimes written Coodere or Kūdere, type refers to a character who is often cold, blunt, and cynical. They may seem very emotionless on the outside, but on the inside they’re very caring — at least when it comes to the ones they love.

The Shundere (しゅんデレ) type refers to characters who are sad and very depressed. While a full smile on their face might be out of the question, their love interest can help them open up and feel accepted.

The Utsudere (うつデレ) type refers to a character who is often sad and depressed. There is a reason for the character’s despair such as being bullied at school. Even if their life improves, they are often wary of other characters’ motives.

17. Rate your life 1-10? Maybe a 4? 4.5 at max

18. What is your main blog? The one I'm posting this on lol

19. List all your side blogs and what they’re for:

yorkiesart - old as hell and inactive artblog

bleedingheartbird - very triggering and depressing vent blog :^(

yorkie2111 - my very first username, a sea and ocean themed aesthetic blog now mostly for when I miss Denmark a whole lot (kinda inactive)

robinsartnest - a second attempt at a separate art blog, inactive as well lol

20. Is there anything people should know before becoming friends with you? I'm a clusterfuck of several undiagnosed mental illnesses and probably other conditions that I'm trying to figure out and deal with on my own until I can get professional help and some diagnoses. At times I'm weird and distant and overall very depressed and unpleasant, I've already hurt so many people this way and am trying to be better every single day. Basically I've never been given the "How to properly Human" manual and am frantically trying to get it right without hurting too many innocent people in the process.

Anyway, if you are nice to me I will love you forever ♡♡♡ :'3c

idk who to tag so if you wanna do this, do it~

#oh wow that's a long one haha #gosh these tag things really encourage my oversharing nature oops #anyway if any of you want to do this too feel tagged :D #get to know me better

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brightlotusmoon · 5 years

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This author is one of my absolute favorites. She's as much a Mikey lover as me and she's the first person in the fandom after me to exclusively focus on Mikey having ESP, psychic, or empathic powers.

The reason I didn't just reblog is because it's long, and because it's worth coming back to.

This is one of the best and most accurate portrayals of the very endearing relationship between 2003 Mikey and Raph that I've read in a long time.

It can be a fun psychological exercise to write them in an antagonizing way, for example a What If AU about the aftermath of The Lead Pipe Incident in which Mikey was injured and Raph needed to atone (and I've gotten requests for that since I'm brain damaged myself and would be convincing). But 2003 has always been about the bonds between the most tight-knit foursome in independent comic history. Some analytical fans, including a very naive me in the past, have explored the potential toxicity of Raph smacking and insulting Mikey, and at least from my single child perspective it seemed harsh while for fans with siblings it seemed normal. The Raph/Mike dynamic is always psychologically fascinating. Who better to write it than a professional counselor like @ulisabarbic-blog .

I mean I can only experience it through my own past traumas, which included a few bullies who were a lot like 2012 Raphael. As for 2003, I was in my early 20s yet incredibly naive when it aired, and all I could focus on was how often Splinter and Raph would glare at Mikey for doing stuff that my newly diagnosed ADHD self did, making me feel vicarious upset and worry through that wonderful Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria Super Anxiety that almost everyone with ADHD has. Took me until 2018 when I met some wonderful people in the fandom to understand how the 2003 siblings worked.

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mentalillnessmouse · 7 years

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could you maybe post some helpful links nd try to explain the differences+similarities between social anxiety disorder nd avoidant personality disorder? most importantly, is it possible for SAD to develop into AvPD? the past 2/3 years my SAD has been extreme but its gotten even worse the last year + ive lived socially isolated for extremely long now too, starting to think+question if i've developed AvPD looking at my life+symptoms/signs etc the past (at very least/definitely) ~7months and such.

Hi,

First off, I apologize that it took us this long to answer your ask.

There is a lot of symptom overlap between social anxiety disorder and avoidant personality disorder. It’s possible to be diagnosed with both because many people with AvPD fit the criteria for SAD as well, but it’s also possible to only have AvPD and not SAD. For example, I am diagnosed with AvPD, but I don’t experience social anxiety. Unfortunately I don’t know if SAD can develop into AvPD; that is something that trained professionals are more qualified to answer.

The main symptoms of AvPD are feeling inadequate and inferior to others, thinking of oneself as fundamentally flawed, and fearing criticism and rejection from people, even strangers, to the point of it interfering in one’s life and leading to avoidance of social situations, work opportunities, new hobbies, etc. unless one can be sure that they are well liked by the people around them. This can lead to having a small or no social circle. Like all personality disorders, a diagnosis of AvPD requires that one has long-lasting maladaptive patterns of behavior and cognition that cause significant distress.

Symptoms of SAD have more to do with feeling extreme anxiety in social situations, e.g. fear of public speaking, fear of eating/drinking in front of people, fear of crowds, fear of doing something socially inappropriate, fear of anxiety being visible to other people, etc. This can also lead to having a small or no social circle, missing work opportunities and avoiding certain social situations. So there is a lot of overlap, but the focus of the symptoms is a little different.

I encourage you to seek out a mental health professional who can help you find the answers to your questions. It sounds like your social anxiety is causing you a lot of distress, anon, and it doesn’t have to be so. There are many treatment options available for both SAD and AvPD.

Here is an article on social anxiety disorder self help tips.

Social Anxiety Support

Take care,- Kaisa

#ask MIM #Anonymous #social anxiety disorder #sad #avoidant personality disorder #avpd #social isolation #anxiety #mod kaisa

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