#i have been diagnosed

[superstarpixelations]

It’s official, I have adhd

#I have been diagnosed #took a million years #but now I can get medication yippee #star speaks

[aparticularbandit]

me, writing agatha diagnosing wanda’s depression, and having a moment of oh.

#musings #bandit #bandit writes fic #wanda america fic #whoops #i forgot #LIKE I KNEW #I HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED #but i didn't realize that some things are actually maybe also indicators that #probably are #W H O O P S #hi hello self #welp #W E L P #see and now i'm trying to make pattern connections and nope nope i want to write this fic yep let's do that #AVOIDANCE! #:D

[burgason]

Quick question:

I know y’all aren’t doctors but…

My handwriting changes A LOT.

I’m 25 and everyone has their own “font”. But like every couple weeks or even during the span of a day, my handwriting changes.

#mo #handwriting #changes #actually mentally ill #I have been diagnosed #is this a symptom?

[scriptistired]

Yall

I DONT KNOW WHAT A HD IS BUT THE DOCTOR TOLD ME I GOT 8O OF THEM BITCHES OOOOOOOOOOOO

#finally #I HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED #I AM FREEE #lies shit aint got a cure #i can however get medicaded #FUCK YEA #script shut up

[scamoosh]

hi guyz i made a quiz abt which horror trope/theme i enjoy you are!! cws are in the description so please mind them!

#quizzes #uquiz #thank u that is all #this is just bc i was bored and have been workin more on my horror ocs recently #edit: adding here im not trying 2 diagnose anyone w catholic trauma its a uquiz☠️ #if u got that and u cant relate 2 themes of guilt like . sorry ? idk what 2 tell u LOL #this quiz is abt themes/motifs/aesthetics i think r juicy im not passing any judgment abt ur character here bc idk who u are hope this helps

[mercifullymad]

i feel passionately about the need to enfold people experiencing (or diagnosed) with "just" depression or anxiety into the mad pride project. the more people who view themselves as mad, the better. much as the rhetorical move from "neurotypical" to "neuroconforming" emphasizes the artifice & social construction of "neurotypicality," so too will expanding identification as "mad" expose the sane/mad dichotomy as a false one.

it's true that (some) people with "just" depression and/or anxiety have an easier time navigating the psych system than people who have more stigmatized diagnoses. but this is not to say that they necessarily have an easy time — the carceral psych system is hostile to everyone subsumed by it, even the most "privileged" patients. we should of course critique & examine how our experiences are shaped by various intersections of privilege, but we cannot forget or ignore how someone with "just" a depression/anxiety diagnosis can still experience the full force of the carceral psych system brought down upon them (including but not limited to involuntary institutionalization, police intervention, & forced medication or other forced treatment).

we must encourage, if not insist, that those with the least-stigmatized diagnoses view their difficult experiences navigating the psych system as bound up with the liberation of people who have more stigmatized diagnoses &, often, a more violent experience of the psych system. we need more people to drop the "i have anxiety/depression but i'm not crazy" line and say loudly, "i have anxiety/depression & i am crazy. my access to just treatment is linked to the conditions of all other crazy people, who are my allies, peers, & friends. we are united in our cause & we all deserve a more liberating system of care."

#mad pride #mad liberation #disability justice #the way that one IG influencer who called depression & anxiety “vanilla” diagnoses has lived rent-free in my mind for the past five years.. #i was soooo upset by that for like three years & now i'm like. okay. it is a little funny. #but also i do think that somewhere in the 'destigmatization'/commodification of anxiety/depression (treatment) #we have lost the plot & forgotten that 'just' these experiences on their own can still be deeply distressing & chronic & endangering #& can make people (be viewed as) just as 'crazy' as someone with a more stigmatized diagnosis #& for me personally my experiences of anxiety & depression have been far more disabling than anything else #sorry i keep editing this post to correct typos...story of my life

[walnutmistjamie]

Are you fucking dying or some shit?

#tedlassogif #tedlassoedit #jamie tartt #roy kent #roy x jamie #ted lasso #roy looks so concerned it melts my heart #trying to understand what the fuck is happening #i've just been diagnosed with depression and i have never related so much to any scene before #i'm jamie #i just so fucking tired #*mine: gifs #gif you can hear

[the-dragon-girl-27]

Flocking drawings!

Balaur just sitting around

Megalania taking a bath

Styracosaurus looking at the sunset

a pair of Euparkerias nuzzling

#paleostream #Balaur #Megalania #Styracosaurus #Euparkeria #paleoart #dinosaur #theropod #lizard #ceratopsian #Archosaur #mesozoic #cenozoic #dragon draws creatures #halfway through the Styracosaurus drawing i noticed the sunset had the lesbian colors so she is a women liker now #oh my fucking god this bitch is fucking gay good for her good for her #at least 5 people gay reacted the Euparkeria drawing on the paleostream server so i guess they have been diagnosed with gay too

[gayvampyr]

psychosis is not “bad person disorder” it’s not a moral failing it’s not a quirk or “evil” or a plot device or an insult and im so sorry to psychotic people who have to deal with that stigma on the daily. you all deserve so much better

#psychosis #i might be psychotic #i have delusions and paranoia and hallucinations but it’s not like. super severe which is why i don’t really do anything about it #or take that label for myself #i haven’t been diagnosed either or done much research so #i do my best to stay in my lane #but hearing people demonize those symptoms 😬 #text post #top posts #4k #5k #10k

[valdotpng]

#bad news for valdotpng art enjoyers: i have cts now. its official </3 #ive had it for over half of a year now actually.. but only got it diagnosed today. not surprised by it but its still very upsetting #im gonna have to take a long break from drawing while i try to treat it so id like to apologize for the lack of art in advance #val.txt #EDIT: ive been trying to learn how to draw w/ my left hand so.. i might start posting art again!!

[starfishinthedistance]

It's annoying that ADD has not been a diagnosis since 1987 (or 2013 depending on how you define "not a diagnosis" as well as your source, either way at least a decade) and yet there are STILL people fighting tooth and nail to argue that ADD is it's own thing, or a thing at all.

It's ADHD-I. There is literally no difference between "ADD" and ADHD. They're the same disorder. It's just a subtype. The inattentive subtype. It's such a basic piece of misinfo yet it's EVERYWHERE.

#'but i was diagnosed with add!' #to that i say 'you shouldnt have been' #literally it helps noone to try and separate them #adhd #actually adhd #neurodivergent #actually neurodivergent #neurodiversity #neurodiverse #neurodevelopmental #mental health #disability #add #attention deficit hyperactivity disorder #attention deficit disorder #adhd issues #adhd inattentive #misinformation

[greelin]

i love attention and thrive off of it but i also absolutely despise it. genuinely undiagnosable

#i have been diagnosed with various things. Not sharing what❤️

[slocumjoe]

I know a lot of people like the "all synths are autistic" thing and i understand, but the idea that they intentionally made Danse like that is so fucking funny to me, and the idea that X6-88 just ended up like that is even fucking funnier

#danse gets diagnosed somehow and has a fucking fit #YOU COULD HAVE MADE ME A PERFECT SPECIMEN #WHY DID YOU MAKE ME HATE CERTAIN TEXTURES AND BAD WITH EYE CONTACT??? WHAT THE FUCK #I COULD HAVE BEEN A FUNCTIONAL ADULT BUT NO. NO. INSTEAD I SAY WEIRD SHIT AND CANT TALK TO PEOPLE #meanwhile x6 gets diagnosed and is like yes? and? #call it whatever you want. you wish you were me #a perfect specimen. flawless in every way #perhaps they should make more synths like danse and i #(danse losing his last marble in the background) #fallout 4 #fo4 #paladin danse #X6-88

[sciderman]

I swear I have read your big post regarding Peter Parker's neurodivergence and why it is best to avoid labelling him, but he definitely has a weird brain

Can't find it and feel kinda sad about it cuz I deeply related to it

i know exactly which post you're talking about and i can't find it either! i've raked through my archive, and it's just - nowhere to be seen. i think tumblr eated it (it happens.)

really, tumblr's search functionality is so so useless, i don't know what to tell you. there are plenty of keywords i can search to find it that post, but the search functionality actually just does not work!

undiagnosed audhd-addled peter parker, my darling, my light, my life, my everything.

i think peter parker's such an interesting creature to write, because a lot of people will point to a certain behaviour about him and say "this is an autistic thing, right?" but a lot of those behaviours are actually, in my head, tied to certain traumas in peter's life too.

people say "oh, the food thing, peter's a picky eater because he's autistic" and yes, absolutely. but also it's tied to his trauma with his parents.

peter gets overstimulated, and yes, it's an autism thing, but also he was bitten by a radioactive spider and his senses are dialled to 11.

it's a similar case i've found for myself, too – where a lot of friends i have kind of diagnose me because i have autistic traits, but actually - i'm hesitant to claim the label or pursue diagnosis because, actually, i know where these certain behaviours come from, and they come from certain traumas. there are events i can pinpoint in my life and say "yep. that's where this behaviour comes from."

so - i think there's a lot of overlap between trauma and autistic traits. the brain is very complex! i think the reason for that overlap is maybe as simple as the fact that people with autism and people with trauma are both doing the same thing - developing behaviours to protect themselves or soothe themselves. so - i think it's nice to be able to see a character like peter parker, who may or may not be autistic, but recognise behaviours in him and see yourself in him.

people who go undiagnosed for whatever reason - people who are really good at masking - so good, in fact, that they have no idea they might be on the spectrum - everyone and anyone at all can look at peter parker and recognise themselves. because i think we discredit the thought that every single brain does the same thing! develops certain behaviours in order to survive. every brain has that same software - we've just all been faced with different hardships that we need to overcome, and that's were all the differences come in.

autism is a spectrum, i guess - everyone falls into it to some degree. and i think events in your life probably push you along on it. but i don't know, i didn't study brain science. probably what i'm saying is very stupid and uninformed. of course there's brain chemistry involved. but i know people in my life living with autism and certain events in their life have exacerbated certain behaviours or made coping with it a lot more difficult. so maybe trauma is a catalyst.

#a lot of my traits have been exacerbated lately and i remember it was much easier for me before #and some of my friends have said “oh it's because you've been masking too long and now you're facing autistic burnout.” #and that made sense to me i think. #but then i found out about the stress thing. me overproducing stress hormone. and that's a very physical thing. #and that explains why i've been overstimulated more than usual lately. and why everything feels like too much. #and i wonder how many of these traits of mine are going to subside once i have lamar removed #and it makes me wonder a lot of things. and it's so weird how much your brain is tied to your biology. #i wonder how much i'll change. i wonder how i'll feel. i wonder if i'll still feel like me. i wonder how much me is me right now. #and how much of me is being altered by weird freaky hormones. who am i?? who will i be?? #i'm almost looking at this as like. a superhero origin story of some sort. like this is my spider-bite moment. maybe. #will i be different? will i cope with things differently?? now that my body isn't fighting something anymore?? #maybe i'll be normal. i don't know. i don't know. #i don't know what it'll mean for me. #but all of these things mean i relate to peter parker in a certain kind of way #i don't think you have to be diagnosed with autism to recognise and empathise with those traits i think #i think everyone can see themselves in peter. and i think that's the benefit of having characters that aren't diagnosed. #because there's so much overlap in the human experience. and certain feelings aren't exclusive to just one group of people. #peter has such a rich identity actually. it's an autistic thing. it's a queer thing. it's a jewish thing. it's a trauma thing. #there are so many overlapping parts of peter's identity that inform who he is and how he behaves and it's never just one thing. #it's a product of all of his things. #just like me! just like everyone. #so me? i guess i can be a million things. you can explain what i am in a million different ways. #a hundred different psychologists can all come up with different ways to explain why i be the way i be. #i don't think it's something that can be simplified. #sorry wow. i'm really going off here in the tags. #i hope people don't think i'm stupid. i don't know brain science. i'm just philosophising as usual. #sci speaks

[saturnvs]

equine therapy starts again today for the first time since … october? nervous 🫠

#debating whether or not i want to continue because so far it’s only given me more anxiety #and i’m not sure the therapist and i … match #i need something softer and she’s not always very soft in her approach #+ she thinks i’m ‘too young’ to occasionally have debilitating back pain #and she also did not believe when i told her i was diagnosed with autism because i ‘don’t look like it’ #🙃 #many parts of the therapy Have been good but i’m not always sure if she even likes me that much? she gets frustrated when i get anxious #i’ll just see how i feel about it today although i’m shaking with anxiety lol #let’s just say it wasn’t entirely what i dreamed of when it began #and i’m still hoping for my old riding school to get back to me #i might need to resend that email..

[wereshrew-admirer]

they tried to say he was illiterate, but <redacted> knew his teachers had been wrong; it was just that the books they assigned were so boring, he was never able to make it through a single paragraph before tracing the lines of wood grain in his desk until his vision blurred seemed more appealing.

if only they knew how fast he could read an interesting book - but he wasn’t about to admit where he’d spent his day, not when there was a field that still needed plowing!

(or, pre-chine chine finds a cleaver’s fable book and steps out onto the slippery slope)

#chine #chine sangfielle #sangfielle #heavily projecting my experience with undiagnosed adhd upon them lol #shout out to the folks on twitter that helped fill the shed with junk <3 #my art #junk food #broken record voice #including the empty shed in case anyone wanted to use it idk #for what? idk #*experience growing up undiagnosed - if i hadn’t been diagnosed accidentally i would have kept on denying adhd lol #denied it for years because ??? attention deficit???? i can focus stronger than anyone i’ve else i’ve ever met ??????? #(i had never heard of hyperfixation lol)