#and comorbidity is high

[marzipanandminutiae]

[TikTok Girlie voice] we’re Crimson Peak fans- we’re gonna read academic articles about anger dysregulation and violence as PTSD symptoms purely for Fanfic Reasons

#crimson peak #trash fire darling #(Lucille Sharpe) #some people interpret her Deal as antisocial personality disorder but #I feel like they’re more going for The Horrors Made Her This Was #*this way #so while I wouldn’t be qualified to diagnose her even if she were real and alive #I lean more towards the PTSD theory #also it can apparently be both because ASPD and PTSD have high comirbidity? #I don’t know; I’m not a psychologist #*comorbidity

[lesbian-honey-lemon]

Here is my problem with posts like these- the concept is sound. Autistic people *can* have all of these traits pictured. Autistic people can make eye contact, not be good at science, and understand emotions.

But all of these posts come off with the undertone that NOT having these pictured traits is the default, the standard, that autistics who don’t have these traits are talked about too much and that NOT having these traits is just stereotypical and bad. Those sentiments have been repeated far too often in the community for me to fully trust people who make posts like this one shown above. How can I know that they don’t REALLY mean to leave autistics who don’t have these traits, these “cute, good, more socially acceptable traits”, out of the conversation. How can I know they don’t think autistics who don’t fit this cutesy list are bad and stereotypical and should just shut up already so the cutesy autistics can look better to neurotypicals. Because it really does come off this way.

I didn’t read fiction at all until I was nine (I was forced to start reading it then) and didn’t enjoy it until I was twelve. I still only enjoy the few fandoms I know well and it is very hard to get into anything I’m not familiar with. My lifelong special interest is geology and has been since I was five. I have always been good at science, and although I have a vivid imagination and love art, I hate English class and can only make art for Big Hero 6 and the SCP Foundation because I know those fandoms well. I don’t make eye contact, and I have low empathy and struggle to read and understand the emotions of people I don’t know well. I have noise sensitivity so bad that I have almost given myself tinnitus playing music to cope. I couldn’t do dishes until I got myself rubber gloves, I can’t eat many “quick foods” such as instant and microwaveable foods because of texture issues.

I don’t fit most of those cutesy traits on the list. But, I barely ever see any positivity for MY traits, because the community sees me as the default, thinks I’m talked about enough and visible enough. There’s this undertone in all of these posts that us non-socially acceptable autistics are visible enough and we should just let high masking high empathy LSNs have the spotlight. And that would be fine if they didn’t also make the community completely inhospitable to us by shitting on people with low empathy, misusing the term nonverbal (which ABSOLUTELY pisses off actually nonverbal people and you’d know that if you actually listened to them), and refusing to talk about anyone who isn’t a cutesy high empathy high masking LSN. Apparently everyone else is accepted enough. Apparently people are aware of me already. If so, then where did my diagnosis run off to, huh?

#this is like half venting half discourse #of course it’s not all high empathy high masking lsns #but I am allowed to be fucking angry when all I see is stuff about them and how lovely and cool their traits are #where’s that energy for nonverbal autistics or autistics with intellectual disabilities or autistics with low empathy #where’s that energy for autistics with comorbidities other than ADHD like autistics with schizophrenia or cluster b disorders or OCD or DID #we won’t get anywhere if every other autistic is thrown under the bus to make high empathy high masking LSNs look better to neurotypicals #autism #autism spectrum disorder #actually autistic #autism discourse #asd #low empathy autism #actually low empathy

[avpdpossum]

reading studies of avpd and social anxiety make me want to punch through some drywall, i feel like i'm losing my mind.

"social phobia researchers have proposed that SP and APD should be amalgamated into social anxiety disorder with what is currently labeled APD treated as a severe variant of this condition...one justification for this proposition is that clinicians in practice will then be more likely to use the pharmaceutical and CBT empirically validated regimens developed for social phobia to treat severe social avoidance (i.e., APD)."

translation: "we want to eliminate your specific diagnosis and just call it this less scary-sounding thing because then more professionals will agree to stuff you full of drugs and use our favorite method of professional gaslighting on you until you act normal."

and don't get me wrong, i'm not against medication by any means (i've spent the last 6 years fighting to get some for my adhd, i'd be a massive hypocrite if i said i was against it) and i know there are people who genuinely benefit from cbt, but you can't deny this statement is just dripping with ulterior motives.

really makes you question the reliability of how the data itself is being presented, doesn't it?

#not to mention the studies are all on people with social anxiety #like it's always social anxiety alone vs social anxiety + avpd #never social anxiety alone vs avpd alone #even though most studies acknowledge that the comorbidity rate isn't 100% so they know there are people with just avpd out there #high comorbidity doesn't mean the minority doesn't exist folks! find a decent sample if you're gonna do research for gods sake #hope people aren't getting tired of me talking about the absolute mess that is avpd + social anxiety research #bc i absolutely will not be shutting the fuck up about it anytime soon it frustrates me so much #it's all so clearly based on bad science and misguided pseudo-objectivity more than any real evidence #poss.speaks #research #comorbidities #avpd #actually avpd #actually avoidant #avoidant pd #avoidant personality disorder #cluster c

[malcriada]

between receiving a 500€ bill from one of my energy companies and not knowing how the fuck i am going to pay, and having to transport my (huge) air purifier to the course i’m starting next week without an available car, i am not having a good day today

#txt #i‘m mad as fuck that a course that is geared towards disabled people #who have higher rates of comorbidities with conditions that make one high risk for severe covid and lc #don’t give two shits about our healths #im just glad some people in the course are masking out of their own volition #but i had to pay a lot of money for an air purifier just to keep myself somewhat safe?? #and if just one person is bothered by it i was told i have to remove it immediately #but they will not put out another mask mandate since government said covid is over uwu

[ihavenoideahowtodream]

So bipolar ADHD comorbidity sucks for all the reasons bipolar ADHD comorbidity sucks right?

However, the hypomania just deep cleaned my entire kitchen.

I didn't eat and I was in my underwear (and pearls too apparently) and after I zoned back in I realized how much pain I was in. But the appliances are white again.

And the pasta sauce ambiguously labeled "opened 3/21" is no longer in the back of my fridge (I've been in this apartment since 2020).

Update 9 hours later:

I have bought my neice's birthday present.

Sorted my laundry and excavated my couch

Made dinner

Found my bedroom floor

Guys if I keep this up I may be able to kill God before my knees give out. (They are making Sounds and hurt so bad but I keep forgetting they are there)

#i fill a whole garbage bag full on shit from my fridge #i also ate when i zoned back into reality #that tweet where the dude's like “the adhd need to ride this cleaning high as far as it takes me” is real ya'll #bipolar 2 #BP II #2 bi 2 polar #fuck i should brush my teeth. #bipolar ADHD comorbidity #9 hour updat: i did brush my teeth! tbh my proudest accomplishment today

[normal-with-adhd-is-a-joke]

I wish there was an app that let you track nutrient intake without showing you your calorie intake. I just want to track my fiber and protein to help manage my chronic illness without triggering my number obsession please

#OCD and anorexia are linked/frequently comorbid so I try to avoid doing things that could trigger anorexia like calorie counting #but I need to up my fiber intake to fix my high cholesterol since I have a family history of high cholesterol-related heart disease #diet tw

[lamiictal]

how many of you have adhd and bipolar disorder? how do these two conditions interact for you?

#actuallyadhd #actuallybipolar #adhd #bipolar disorder #i'm super curious because i have both #and there's a high rate of comorbidity between the two

[desperatecheesecubes]

Told my coworker today that all 4 of my grandparents died of cancer and he went ‘woohoo! Won the lottery!’ Which was not the response I expected tbh

#it’s also a little misleading #because one grandmother is actually still alive #she’s…. 96???? or something I’ve lost track #anyway she’s had cancer like 5 times and they just don’t have any options for treatment anymore so she’s just vibin with us #and her husband had cancer as a comorbidity but it wasn’t THE reason #but yeah dawg…. #aunt had to have part of her intestines removed cus they were cancerous #my brother had a precancerous tumor which he still refuses to talk to us about #which lol ok I guess #mine #anyway the odds of me getting cancer are like supremely high oh my god

[androcola]

headcanon that peter has celiacs disease so he has to have everything gluten free

#theres such a high comorbidity rate of celiacs with autism #or like. idk id co morbidity is th right word #but like. lots of autistic people also have celiacs

[chaotic-queer-disaster]

i don't know which "I only have ADHD" person needs to hear this but if u relate to all the autism criteria not only because they share traits but enough that you fit the criteria.... perhaps you should look into that

#comorbidity rates are SUPER high between them and ive seen a lot of things described as ''the adhd experience'' on tumblr #only to look them up and.... they're an autism thing. and there's no studies into it being an adhd thing.

[yther]

imagine if your notes and thoughts from one class/subject/”stage” was just like...one single facet of your being. people aren’t screen names, and no compilation of social media creates or shows the whole person. 

absolutely bizarre to think finding angsty teen’s digital notebook means you know the adult of today who wrote it.. like 10 yrs ago.

it’s an Archive, not Alive. Emails, pics, every account you scraped, it’s all historical.

then remember/imagine just being a chill friend for years minding my own boundaries healthily.

y’all this is not protecting the hive or killing an invader, it’s hive collapse/cannibalism.

imagine destroying someone’s life because of all the very true things you know but think are lies, which is still 50% of the story. and imagine judging during the worst point in their life..those specific months. and forgetting all the other years of placid af presence. imagine going after someone completely isolated and terrified enough to be A Goddamn Mess/Yikes, and only at that point. disregarding legacy of chill.

imagine not knowing how surnames and step siblings work, imagine pretending family isn’t complicated. imagine dismissing surgery and serious physical illness as like...things that can consume years of life and it’s not Laziness.

imagine being just a person reading this who doesn’t have a horse in the non-existent horse race, who doesn’t have an opinion already : /

try imagining

(try imagining not wanting ppl who have control of your living situation to get more angry so you appease abusers while you get out of dodge. IMAGINe.)

#crazy on main #something something IP address from google hack Um so..Cal. SosoCal. #bruh #I started to like a person #I said constantly #sorry if line cross #answer was no #rl trauma more than online will tell #and yeah guess what chronic illness #of certain types have high comorbidity #it's all TRue. #that's the worst part. #gay n confused and this is not helping #traumabond my ass IMO #I am the loser I always said and travel doesn't make me cool it's my grief and loss #and if this is one of Real people I know causing problems this post is insane #but this is tumblr and it's the void #arrest me for vagueposting at my age because all other comms are #jammed #if you fly a plane and you know who u are..final warning before police #got that MN IP too and #I keep my receipts offline

[mischiefmanifold]

I don’t think I experience highs a lot (or ever really) but boy do I ever experience crashes like a motherfucker

I don’t think that’s an uncommon experience, anon, especially if you have comorbid disorders that cause apathy or more frequent depressive episodes or you’re living in a bad place right now.

#asks answered #anon asks #npd tag #npd #narc high #narc crash #comorbidity

[gentlethorns]

i'm going fucking crazy. why do i get a little 🤏🏼 just a little bit stressed and suddenly be like "i'm going 100 on the highway at 10:30 am. also i'm booking five tattoos for the next two weeks. also i am enraged suddenly." and then even after the feeling of stress ebbs away i still feel like shit and have all those negative impulsive behaviors that serve the purpose of venting steam (steam that is no longer there)!!!!! why why why

#she bork #tbd #me thinking getting a job i don't actively hate would eradicate stress forever and make my mental illness go away 🤡 see this is why i'm like #80-90% positive i have bpd. high function or 'quiet' bpd for sure bc i'm still functional and high-achieving but idk when these lil episodes #hit i literally am just overwhelmed w despair that i will never be able to live fucking normally bc whatever job i currently have will #always eventually make me miserably stressed and whatever i accomplish will always eventually amount to nothing and whoever i meet no one #will ever really know or love the real me and it's like. where does that come from. it could be cptsd too but the impulsive and reckless #coping mechanisms i have (overspending + tats + recklessly driving + physically venting rage) make me lean towards bpd #and you know what else? so do my tendencies to have black and white thinking ('oh i frustrated you once? you hate me then and i should die') #and to get turned on and off by people (even the same person) very easily and often. like it happens even w people i'm close to like #sometimes suddenly i'll be like 'you're so annoying. i cannot continue to see you as a presence in my life. don't talk to me. don't exist #around me.' and then it goes away as suddenly as it arrived. lmfao all of that is so toxic and i'm LITERALLY AWARE OF IT EVEN AS IT HAPPENS. #so yes the emotional volatility and impulsivity make me think bpd. but also cptsd and bpd are often comorbid so honestly it's probably both!

[sodabread]

terminally online and terminally on tumblr are two separate diagnosis

#high HIGH comorbidity tho #tumblr

[that-bipolar-mood]

Tw alcohol

I got so drunk last night. It keeps happening. I say I'll drink only a little, then end up barely walking, supporting myself on someone.

The worst part is that I become this bitchy person without any regard for people around me. And at some point they will get tired of my apologies.

There's also the problem that I'm drinking while on medication. I decided to drink only on Fridays and Saturdays. Yet, it seems too little.

If anyone has tips or advice, please share

#i know bipolar has a high comorbidity with alcoholism #bipolar disorder #actuallybipolar #manic depression #mania #actually bipolar #actually manic #actually mentally ill #bipolar mania #manic depressive #bipolar i #bipolar ii #bipolar 1 #bipolar 2

[everlastingrandom]

You should check out autism. ADHD doesn't special interest hyperfixate in the same way. And autism is awesome.

yes, it can. and my psychiatrist would very strongly say otherwise

#while i relate a lot to people with autism. the adhd spectrum is radically underdiagnosed in woc #even with the comorbidity being high #I know me pretty well. i'm good #asks