#Psych special interest

[avalovesindie]

it’s always “you need to get a job” and “why aren’t you in college?” And never “Ava what are the 5 DSM-5 criteria for autism, why don’t you tell me all about your opinions and theories on it?”

#autism #special interest #psychology #psychology may be a special interest #Me listing the 5 criteria and 7 sub-criteria for autism in my head over and over again #I also know the 9 bpd criteria and 8 histrionic criteria #Actually autistic #autistic adult #autistic special interest #Actuallyautistic #autistic #Adhd #hyperfixation #dsm-5 #dsm #dsm5 #autism criteria #Psych special interest #Psychology special interest #Psych #neurodiversity #neurodiverse #neurodevelopmental #neurodevelopmental disorders

[macksartblock]

sketches of the s1 kiddads bc i miss them

doomed children of all time

#dndads #dungeons and daddies #grant wilson #terry jr stampler #nick close #sparrow oak garcia #lark oak garcia #kiddads #me when Grant is both Isaac (his physical self) and the ram (his psyche) [sobbing rolling around on the floor] #i haven't been in the mood to draw a lot lately so hoping to get back to that more regularly soon lol #tw: blood #anyway edgy tj i miss you everyday projecting my special interest of vampires onto you immediately #[went on a tangent about how vampirism lycanthropy & classic zombie viruses could be mutated strains of rabies] #my artwork

[prince-liest]

read through your answer to an ask about alastor's touch aversion and as someone who is in the process of getting diagnosed with ASD it is SO VALIDATING. being totally cool and normal with touch one second and then being absolutely appalled by it a moment later. what also shines through about his characterization in this context is the slow acceptance towards the ordeal of Using Your Words when you want/no longer want to be touched. unfortunately vox cant read your mind bud

i dont know if you've mentioned this anywhere but do you see alastor (or your version of him) as an autistic character? since that flavor of touch aversion, though not exclusive to asd, is definitely a common experience

Ahhh, I'm glad that it rings so true! Yeah, it's just one of those things that I think is really malleable and depends on the circumstance! Even for folks that aren't touch-averse, specifically, there's still variety in the people and circumstances involved with being accepting of touch - and being generally touch-averse just adds layers and levels to the experience. Thank you!

As for Alastor potentially being autistic in how I write him... two aspects to that answer:

With the singular exception of Lucifer (or any other character who has an existing, canon diagnosis) I don't tend to have specific diagnoses in mind ahead of time for characters when I write them. A lot of them end up very obviously anxious, or ADHD, or autistic, or most commonly C-PTSD, etc, but it's kind of an "I write this character how I see them and you can definitely accurately infer" situation! You're not the first person to see that in how I write him, so probably the answer is 'yes'!

That said, I've been told by pretty reliable peer review that I have a touch of the 'tism to the point that it's a running joke, so there's a good chance that's also leaking in, HAH.

#ask #personal #Anonymous #I think I'm what happens when “the human psyche” is someone's special interest #hazbin hotel #my writing #the ordeal of Using Your Words is such an Alastor arc in this whole series #he's gonna have to do it in the next chapter too and he's NOT GONNA LIKE IT #((total side note but auDHD Vox my beloved))

[1-7776]

autistic ppl will see a sitcom and say is anyone else gonna obsess over this and analyze this beyond reason and not wait for an answer

#its always sunny in philadelphia #seinfeld #friends #parks and rec #the office #that 70s show #psych #autistic ppl w sitcom special interests are earths greatest warriors... Love You Mwah #autism #special interest

[ruzhhjester]

me pony

#mlp #ponysona #my art #my little pony #their name is neuron enigma his talent is autism #half joking his cutiemark actually refers to his special interest in human psyche

[psycheofaphaggot]

stupid rant dont mind me.

its almost definitely the autism in me, but oh my god if theres one thing i hate its when people misunderstand characters or situations in media. i don’t know what it is but it just angers me to no end.

i don’t expect everyone to be a huge psychology nerd like me, or to even be interested in seeing all possible sides to a situation. but its just…you really cannot make an informed decision, or even have an opinion on certain things without the right information. humans are multi-facted, and if you’re dealing with actual complex media that showcases this, you need to make sure you fully understand something (or someone) to have a valid take.

maybe im too critical, but honestly imo this goes for real life as well.

i mean it’s perfectly fine to have a negative opinion on anything, feelings are valid regardless of what caused them. but jesus christ. isn’t it better to know all of the facts first? even if it doesn’t change your opinion?

its just so annoying i don’t even have the words for it.

anyways, rant over. byebye

#autism #im just a psych nerd expecting everyone to be the same #unrealistic outlook #rambles #ramblings #mini rant #video games #story games #i literally psychoanalyze everything its fine #autistic things #autistic community #can you tell my special interest lol

[thesockwhisperer]

I was so damn stressed about this test. My Adhd meds wore off mid test and I wasn't able to finish the second half of the test (I had to leave one of the frqs blank because i didnt have time). It felt so icky because Biology and related sciences are kinda my special interest but apparently I was panicked for no reason because I still (somehow) got the 5!!!!

#ap tests #autism #adhd #yippie #ap classes #college board #im so fucking happy #i also got a 4 on ap psych and a 4 on ap lang but this is the most important #special interest

[trans-axolotl]

How did you learn embroidery?

taught myself! looked up some guides online on how to cross stitch when i was 14, and then checked out some books from the library to learn how to do surface embroidery. mostly learned through practicing and figuring out what works and what doesn't!

#asks #embroidery #i love embroidery so much. huge special interest #at any given time i am probably either thinking about psych abolition. dance. or embroidery #also i mostly learned by choosing big elaborate projects that required me to learn a lot of new techniques

[griponthenews]

no because that meme of someone watching a streamer play their favourite game but they misunderstand it horrendously. That’s literally me with Not for Broadcast. I have yet to see a streamer play it and use like their actual brain and critical thinking skills when choosing whether to side with Advance vs Disrupt. Like the point of the game is nuance and the grey morality of both sides but these people will just assume everything Advance do is bad while supporting Disrupt without questioning any of their actions because Advance are the government and therefore automatically pure evil? Say what you will about Julia’s government, but early game Advance genuinely have some stellar policies. But every streamer I’ve seen play this game always goes fully pro-Disrupt as soon as they have the option to do so, without considering the actual good things Advance are doing at that point, like the Menu Centres or the Assets and Wealth Act. I’m not forgetting about their inexcusable actions later on in the game (if you’ve played it then you’ll know what I’m talking about), but even then that was mainly Julia’s decision rather than Advance’s (can’t remember which ending it is but there’s that tape where Peter is very clearly against what Julia did). Arguably the best epilogue of the game happens when the public is in favour of Advance over Disrupt. But because typically in dystopian fiction the rebel faction is the morally better choice I guess people assume Disrupt must be too? Despite all this the most annoyed I’ve ever been watching someone play this game was when at the end the guy said (in a roundabout way of complimenting her I guess??) that Megan’s actor did a good job at making you hate her. How someone can come out of this game hating MEGAN WOLFE of all characters is beyond me.

sorry for how incoherent and badly formatted this post is I just have to rant about Not for Broadcast or I’ll explode.

#You get it this is MY game. This is the game I honk you have to play to understand my psyche #think autocorrected to honk. OK #I know I’m autistic and this game is literally a special interest of mine. So therefore I will care about it way more than some letsplayer #but #I want to see someone play it without getting the Accord epilogue for once #playing pro Advance and being a propaganda puppet for Julia is so much fun #My favourite epilogue is A Better Jeremy even though it’s undoubtedly one of the saddest #But Accord is so boring I’m sorry. I liked it at first and it was the first epilogue I got but im starting to dislike it more and more #Sorryryyy for the grammar mistakes I’m half alseep

[designernishiki]

finally wrote up my majima background conspiracy theory in a post and its a long ass mess and makes me sound insane but. i mean. that’s exactly what i predicted so

#will I post it????? who knows #probably #I mean it’d suck to have written all that and then just keep it in drafts #no but fr I am actually pretty fuckin solidly in the camp that he was raised in an upper-middle class household #at the very least was far more adequately educated than a lot of the other prominent characters #but yeah #rambling #also wrote up way too much re: why nishiki is absolutely borderline but I’m still figuring out how I wanna format that #abnormal psych- specifically when it comes to personality disorders and character analysis- is one of my Big Big special interests #so when I write about that shit #oh baby you know imma write A Fucking Lot

[whifferdills]

#late entry for AOTY. so psyched to see them live next month #special interest #endure #cherry blue intention #atmospheric background music

[prince-liest]

I have to say, I now crave the way you write unreliable narrators - where the reader doesn't know that the narrator is unreliable until its hitting them in face. Every limited narrator is unreliable (when done well) by virtue of them being a person, but its quite a treat to have a character gaslight themselves so hard they genuinely seem honest in their reasonings. Your way of getting into a characters head and viewing the world from their perspective is very apparent throughout your fics. I recently re-read your old atla and hawks-centric fics, and you have such a unique and recognizable flavor to your writing :)

I love your writing, been re-reading your stuff every so often since I first discovered you

Thank you so much! It is, firstly, an absolute delight to me that people are still dipping back and reading (rereading!!) things of mine that are a few years old now.

Secondly, I think the biggest part of writing an unreliable narrator is that, like... most people, no matter who they are or what they're doing, are generally convinced that they're doing the right thing on some level. Almost nobody is sitting there going, "I'm going to make a series of bad choices on purpose!" even if the choices are clearly awful from the outside. The way you describe my writing, where as a reader you're not quite hit in the face with what's been spiraling on until the character is - that's so lovely for me to hear, because that means I'm doing a good job convincingly writing that "I'm behaving in a way that makes sense to me" mindset!

Which is my favorite thing to do in writing, hahaha. Even in my fantroll RP days, all of my OCs were designed Like That (TM).

So I'm really glad that you're enjoying the ride! I had a lot of fun building the theme park with funhouse mirrors plastered everywhere. >:)

#ask #personal #hoozlpoozl #and speaking of ATLA “Dish Duty” is still a fic I am VERY fond of #I really upgraded from having Zuko break his thumb to having Alastor chew his fucking leg off huh #I think I might be what happens when you make “the vagaries of the human psyche” someone's special interest pffft #t

[koravelliumavast]

Me explaining why I like a character:

#weird #this is specifically about Adolin and Renarin #but also literally any character that is a little #so also troy and abed in community #and shawn spencer from psych #and kelsier. he has the swag #and spook #spensa and alcatraz also have the swag #and also any character who can mildly be seen as neurodivergent #Raoden. that boy was not about to give up on his special interest of fixing elantris #that sounds like the swag talking #the doctor in dr who? Swaggy #brandon is very good at writing neurodivergent swaggy characters. #i don't think hes neurodivergent but like 3/4 of his characters definitely are #PERCY JACKSON LITERALLY ANY DEMIGOD IS SO SWAGGY #the swag don't stop

[niishi]

Id v is so crazy for making a big lizard man hunter with braided rows and then make him a survivor persona and they made him a skinny white man with rows.. not just that but he's a redhead too......... There's like only 2 genuinely poc characters in this game.... And one of them the devs are constantly drawing as a white man for no reason. the one guy who's supposed to be native American is just a white cowboy who was adopted by a tribe.

#i cannot believe ppl get their moral knickers in a knot over #fandom issues #if youre worried about morality you shouldnt be playing this game at all #the devs are racist and ableist and homophobic lmao #i will never get over them writing lore where a therapist Stockholms her mentally disabled patient #and breaks him out of the mental hospital and marries him #and the devs are like “this ISNT stockholm. theyre fully in love! she has power and advantages over him and used them several times #but its true love and not stockholm! we prommy!“ #“also this guy is autistic and his special interest is killing ppl!” #lrjfjekxked #them drawing william as white all the time is wild to me #also idv fandom are the only ppl who made me calling out someones black face #an issue.... they told me i was racist for saying this guy shouldnt do blackface... #all of the ppl who play this game need to be admitted to the psych ward #sorry when i said poc #i actually meant dark skin #there are asian characters too #its a chinese game i beliebe #but most of the characters are British

[arosebyan0thername]

Idk man something they cooked into doctor who is a different level, shit links directly into my autism like bluetooth, it's automatic

#personal #supernatural did have a tight grip on my psyche but doctor who was always the number 1 #first and longest and strongest special interest since before i can remember #full on flapping my hands and rocking back and forth and squealing stimming since before i even knew i had adhd let alone autism #only thing that still does that to me

[smartest-avenger]

Here’s that Batman project I was working on a while ago that I told y’all

Just part one but this alone has taken months lmao

Part two will be about ocd for this same character

Anyway enjoy

Introduction

In Batman stories, characters are given all types of diagnoses. Some are explicitly stated within these stories, some are implied, and some are theorized by fans. I have always wondered how accurate these diagnoses are. This project will use criteria from the DSM-5 to examine specific interpretations of Batman characters and determine how accurate a given diagnosis is for them. Each section will specify the source material being used.

Harvey Dent

Harvey Dent was one of Bruce Wayne’s best friends back in the day. He was a district attorney, and a good one at that, as he was about to be the one to bring the Penguin down in court. During this case, however, Dent was sprayed in the face with acid by someone working for the Penguin. This scarred Dent’s face, and is said to have caused him to lose his mind. After this he becomes a villain in Gotham going by the name of Two Face, referring both to his scarred face and his dual personalities. This section looks at the interpretation of Harvey Dent from season one of Batman the Audio Adventures which can be found on HBO Max, Spotify, and YouTube. It is recommended to listen to this podcast before reading, but all scenes used throughout this section are listed along with their timestamps.

Timestamps

Episode One

Yin and Yang Scene 11:40-23:50

Episode Two

Ghosts of Gotham Scene 3:56- 8:13

Episode Three

Voicemail Scene 10:11-11:19

Batman's Investigation Scene 25:40-26:55

Episode Four

Doubleday Street Scene 4:25-8:30

Episode Five

Horse Racing Scene: 20:55-26:52

Episode Six

Pier Two Scene 29:09-37:08

Episode Seven

Dinner Scene 17:35-26:00

Episode Eight

Penguin and Two Face Team-Up Scene 14:53-21:45

Episode Nine

Announcement of Merger Scene 21:26-22:45

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Diagnostic Criteria

Disruption of identity characterized by two or more distinct personality states, which may be described in some cultures as an experience of possession. The disruption in identity involves marked discontinuity in sense of self and sense of agency, accompanied by related alterations in affect, behavior, consciousness, memory, perception, cognition, and or sensory-motor functioning. These signs and symptoms may be observed by others or reported by the individual.

Recurrent gaps in the recall of everyday events, important personal information, and/or traumatic events that are inconsistent with ordinary forgetting.

The symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.

The disturbance is not a normal part of a broadly accepted cultural or religious practice.

The symptoms are not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance or another medical condition.

Analysis of Diagnostic Criteria

In Dent’s introduction in the podcast during the Yin and Yang scene, he can be heard arguing with another voice that we learn is Two Face. Two Face refers to Dent with the nickname “College Boy”, implying a gap between the two of them. At the timestamp 13:02 the narrator specifically says that these two are the same person but with two voices, letting listeners who may not be familiar with the story of Harvey Dent know that these two personalities are within the same body. The narrator also refers to this as a “double occupancy” in Dent’s head, and likens them to Jekyll and Hyde. This scene shows that Dent does not have possessive type DID, as there is no “possession” of either Dent or Two Face taking over with one or the other having full control of the body. Instead, they fit the description of non possessive type DID, which details the experience of having two or more simultaneous thought streams, which is shown by the way Dent and Two Face talk between themselves as two separate consciousnesses.

The Yin and Yang scene also shows an explicit example of the distinct split between these two personalities. At the time stamp 20:11, Batman says that he needs to have a word with Dent alone. Two Face laughs at this, saying that there is no privacy between him and Dent, but then Batman recites a Latin phrase students learn in law school. Dent understands the meaning immediately, and Two Face does not understand it at all. Two Face becomes agitated, asking what it means. This shows us that while Two Face appears to have all the knowledge and memories that Dent has from the time he was formed due to the lack of amnesia (as detailed in criteria B), he does not have access to any knowledge or memories from before that time, showing that he is separate from Dent.

There are two interesting instances that show off the difference in word choice and thought process between Dent and Two Face. In the Yin and Yang scene at 14:10, Dent and Two Face both finish a sentence with their own saying. Two Face says that he has two words for the captive, and Dent jumps in saying “yes, neat and tidy”. Two Face corrects him by saying “tooth and nail”. Then again in the Horse Racing scene at 23:55, Dent is talking about how people in Gotham respond to trespassers. Two Face interrupts and says “a double barrel bloodbath, free of charge”. Dent replies with “I was gonna say inhospitality, but he’s not wrong”. This shows their distinct patterns of thinking, as well as providing an instance where Dent refers to Two Face as a separate entity from himself.

Until episode 6, there is no obvious distinction between Dent and Two Face’s sensory-motor functioning. The Pier Two scene shows Dent and Two Face going through a significantly distressing event. In this scene they are trying to save Pier Two from a bomb, and in doing so they fall into the water and begin to drown. Batman has arrived at this point, but is unable to help because he is diffusing the bomb. At 34:29, Batman is calling down to Harvey, telling him to swim. He says “you know how to swim”. Dent replies with “yes I do, but he doesn’t”. The scene then goes on to describe Dent and Two Face struggling for control while trying to keep afloat, showing the split in sensory-motor function between the two of them.

In the Penguin and Two Face Team-Up scene at 16:45, Penguin tells Dent “That’s blowfish toxin, old boys!” When talking about them teaming up at 21:00, Penguin says the team up will be “Just you, and you, and me.” This shows that the split between Dent and Two Face is distinct enough that even others on the outside see it and refer to them as such. During the Announcement of Merger scene at 21:55, Dent says that Penguin’s criminal organization will be “uniting with the august firm of Dent and Dent”, another indication of the distinctiveness of Dent’s two personalities.

Throughout all of this podcast, Dent and Two Face are referred to as separate and distinct personalities by other characters, the omniscient narrator, and Dent and Two Face themselves.

In all of the podcast, there is not an instance where Dent has any significant gap in recall of events or information inconsistent with ordinary forgetting. However, due to the nature of this podcast only showing select moments of Dent's life and our inability to gather information outside of those shown scenes, it cannot be stated with certainty that this has never happened. For the sake of this project, using what is given in the media, it will be assumed that Dent does not meet this criterion.

Due to the fact that Dent does not meet criterion B, that does not factor into any clinically significant distress or impairment that Dent might have. Instead, one must turn their attention to criterion A, the presence of Two Face, Dent’s second personality.

When it comes to the occupational aspect, there is evidence against clinically significant impairment. In the Horse Racing Scene, Dent tries to hurt the Penguin’s business and does so by destroying the Penguin’s private box at the horse races using an obscure law to protect him from legal consequences and closing the Iceberg Casino using another obscure law. While explaining what he has done, Dent talks about several legal strategies he used to pull this off. Dent then details to the Penguin how if the Penguin keeps coming after him, Dent will use the law to do more than merely inconvenience him. At 25:47 Two Face says “You know, if we was really crazy, we could bring down the entire Gotham underworld in the court of law.You want to try us? Give us a reason to burn it all down.” Then Dent says “Then give us thirty minutes with publicly available records, and we can pull together a legal strategy that will squeeze your precious criminal organization until it’s pulp, and juiced, and served on crushed ice to the federal government”. This shows that Dent still has the ability to do the work from his occupation, and do it well. So well, in fact, that in the Penguin and Two Face Team-Up Scene Penguin devises a plan to get Dent working with him. During the enactment of this plan, Penguin says to Dent that “somewhere in there is an absolutely brilliant legal mind”. It is clear that Dent has not been impaired in his occupational skills, even though he is now using those skills for crime.

Dent’s social functioning, however, has been impaired by the presence of Two Face.

This can be shown in the Voicemail Scene. Bruce Wayne leaves Dent a short but powerful voicemail during which he tells Dent that while he may not know what Dent is going through, he will always be there to help, and that he really wants to help Dent. The most telling part of this voicemail comes at the timestamp 10:57 when Wayne says “I don’t know if you get these messages, but I’m going to keep leaving them anyway”. This shows that the friendship between Wayne and Dent has fallen apart since Dent’s accident that led to the formation of his second personality. Dent’s inability to maintain that friendship is indicative of significant impairment in social functioning.

There are several indications that the presence of Two Face is not part of a broadly accepted cultural or religious practice. This is shown in the way other people talk about Dent and Two Face. In Batman’s investigation Scene, Alfred Pennyworth and Batman are discussing Dent, and the fact that the Penguin is “inflaming Harvey’s breakdown”. When Batman begins speculating on why the Penguin would be doing that, Pennyworth says at the timestamp 26:48 “If I may, sir, does a man like Oswald Cobblepot need a reason to torment the mentally ill?” Similar remarks are made by some of Dent’s fellow members of the Gotham underworld. In the Horse Racing Scene, Dent and Two Face are switching off sentences and talking together as they talk to the Penguin. At the time stamp 21:40, Penguin says “Spare me the doubletalk Harvey, I don’t speak mental patient”. This shows from two different perspectives that the presence of Two Face is not a broadly accepted cultural or religious practice.

Over the course of the podcast, Dent is shown under the influence of a substance once. This is in the Penguin and Two Face Teamup Scene when the Penguin poisons Dent using blowfish toxin. Dent’s behaviors regarding the presence of Two Face do not change when he is under that influence, instead remaining consistent to how he presents while not under the influence. This consistency of Dent’s traits show that it is not the effects of a substance or other condition causing his symptoms.

Final Thoughts

While Harvey Dent meets the majority of the criteria for Dissociative Identity Disorder, he does not meet all of it. It is very evident that Harvey has a distinct separate personality, but without the recurrent gaps in his memory it can not be confidently said that he has dissociative identity disorder, and that his symptoms are not better explained by another disorder.

#batfam #batman #actually autistic #bruce wayne #special interest #infodump #comics #Harvey sent #two face #psychology #psych #this is why you don’t give an autistic psych student free access to a DSM-5 in their free time /j