#mibingo

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Me: Can I even really call it trauma, though? It wasn't *that* bad, right? Other kids have definitely been through worse.

The men in my head that my brain created to love and protect me because I couldn't handle my childhood otherwise: 🧍‍♂️😐

#did system #osdd system #udd system #osdd 1b #osdd 1a #osdd1 #actually did #did osdd #did alter #osdd alter #osdd #osddid #actually osdd #actually udd #did #sysblr #system #system relationships #system stuff #mibingo #mibingo did

[yeahlikesvideos]

#labritney #niega #pack #💨 #material #fuerte y que #cobra por #eldelicioso #critica a su ex #empresa #mibingo #money #🔥 #🍑 #bingohot #britneyalfaro #lazygirl #🇵🇪 ya sale el #pack #primicia #lascuquis #lasconejas #lascucardas #lassirenitas #kinesperu (en Las Cucardas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFPvkXhDybW/?igshid=1ulffy5xvkbwl

#labritney #niega #pack #💨 #material #fuerte #cobra #eldelicioso #critica #empresa #mibingo #money #🔥 #🍑 #bingohot #britneyalfaro #lazygirl #🇵🇪 #primicia #lascuquis #lasconejas #lascucardas #lassirenitas #kinesperu

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Me: I have no amnesia, I must not be a system

Also me, while watching a video on DID: why are all these comments liked I've never seen this youtube is broken

#osddid #did stuff #actually did #did system #did osdd #did #osdd 1a #osdd 1b #osdd stuff #osdd system #osdd #system problems #system stuff #system #dissociative amnesia #sysblr #mibingo #mibingo did

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Process of finding things with ADHD:

1. Check directly in front of your face, extensively, minimum 3 times, in a futile attempt to avoid steps 2-9

2. Decide it is absolutely not directly in front of your face and swear on god himself that you will not find it there in 2 minutes

3. Check Every Other Place (TM) you think it reasonably could be

4. Check all the places it absolutely should not be

5. Check the fridge/oven/washing machine/microwave

6. Panic

7. Accept defeat and return to where you were sitting (approx 2 minutes later)

8. Find the item directly in front of your face

9. Gaslight yourself into believing in magic/god/house elves/anything to convince yourself this isn't your fault

10. Repeat

#mibingo #adhdlife #adult adhd #adhd problems #adhd #actually adhd #adhd memes #adhdawareness #adhd post #adhd culture is #actually neurodivergent #neurodivergent

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Wake up babe new in-system lore just dropped

#did stuff #did system #actually did #did osdd #did #osdd 1b #osdd 1a #osdd system #osdd alter #osddid #osdd #mibingo #mibingo did

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Sometimes the trauma tries to drop some new info and I just... pack it up and mail it back. Return to sender I do not want to know this.

#traumacore #ptsd recovery #ptsd memes #complex ptsd #ptsd problems #ptsdwarrior #actually ptsd #living with ptsd #ptsd #actually traumatized #trauma recovery #trauma #sa #tw csa vent #mibingo

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1/11/23

My ADHD made a friend today and I found out about the autism creature and the ADHD creature so I did some art to help me stop demonizing my new diagnosis.

#mibingo #my art #not my character #autism creature #adhd creature #tbh creature #btw creature #art #internalized ableism #coping #art therapy #coping through art #coping skills #coping strategies

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Struggling with transitions isn't always externalized in the form of a meltdown. Here are some examples of things (from an autistic former early childhood teacher) that also count as struggling with transitions.

Note: I'm including things to do with adult transitions and childhood transitions here. Examples and explanations are given in italics.

Trying to politely decline to transition - sometimes, this may include lying about your wants/needs or not even realizing you want or need something because your brain isn't processing that information during the stress of a transition; "Becca, it's time for snack." "No thank you, I'm not hungry."

Undetectable self-harm behaviors - digging nails into palm, "itching" when you aren't itchy, internally degrading yourself, biting cheek or tongue, holding breath until you can't anymore. Self-harm during transitions is a common and valid struggle, even if you didn't try to use it as leverage to avoid the transition.

Undetectable stimming to regulate (very healthy!) - especially with objects that have a similar texture to one from the previous area or material

Slow or stuttered transitions - Starting to move on, but repeatedly having "just one more thing (you) forgot" or physically walking away slower possibly while staring at the previous area or material

Verbal shutdown (total or partial) during or immediately after transitions - this could be part of a more overall shutdown or exist on it's own

Fixating on the previous task/area/material - may show by excessively talking about the previous task long after others have moved on for example trying to tell everyone about your cool lego building or even showing them pictures of it (taking pictures is good coping mechanism for moving on from a toy) long after everyone stopped playing with or talking about legos, or if you were moving from legos to drawing, wanting to draw a picture of legos

Keeping materials from the previous task - if you were playing with legos, but have to clean up, you might keep some to build with or even a single lego on your person somewhere as a comfort. In larger/life transitions, you may refuse to get rid of something long past when it is socially acceptable (such as an ex's shirt) or taking something "strange" such as a piece of trim or a scrap of wallpaper from a previous house.

Brain fog, fatigue, disorientation, and/or dissociation during and/or immediately after a transition

Internal emotional distress during/immediately after transitions - due to autistic issues with emotional regulation, these emotions may last the rest of the day if not supported because of bottling up the emotions

Executive dysfunction post-transition - especially if you don't usually struggle with it or weren't before the transition

When going to bed, insomnia is an extremely common presentation of struggling with transitions

Feel free to add on! Preferably in the text of the reblog rather than in tags so I can reblog this with your additions, but either works!

I also want to specify that not all of these are harmful or negative responses to transitions. If you do these things and they help you without hurting anyone, that's fine! This is just to help give you the language to get help as needed because it's much easier to get help if you say "I struggle with transitions because of my autism" than "I'm struggling right now but I'm not sure why".

#actually autistic #autism #autistic #autism diagnosis #autism spectrum disorder #autistic spectrum #autistic culture #being autistic #autistic experiences #autistic things #autistic adult #autistic struggles #autistic traits #autistic shutdown #mibingo

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Are you fucking kidding me? Now we're lumping Autism, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's together? Two literal degenerative brain diseases, with someone god forbid not thinking and acting the way you think they should. I fucking hate it here. Yes autism is a disability - and we don't need to do everything we can to make it go away. We need to *gasp* make accommodations.

Edit: Shit, sorry for the lack of alt text, it's added now

#i'm exhausted #tw ableism #tw lsd #tw medical #tw ableist #autistic spectrum #autism spectrum #autistic #actually autistic #autistic things #autistic adult #autistic pride #autistic community #autism #nothing about us without us #mibingo #mibingo vent

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Absolutely wild that one of my disabilities boils down to "don't ask me to stand up, because I may succeed, but not for long"

#this post is a joke #It is much more than this #but I am coping #potsie #pots syndrome #pots #mibingo

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I wish there was something kinda like alt text on images, but for subtext. Especially irl. I don't wanna read between the lines; give me a plot synopsis.

#actually autistic #autism #autistic things #autistic #autism spectrum disorder #autistic spectrum #autistic pride #autistic problems #being autistic #autistic feels #autistic adult #autistic community #social cues #subtext #mibingo

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I feel like people constantly forget what "on the spectrum" actually means, so let me remind you.

I want you to think of an item that is purple. Any item, but make it purple in your mind.

Now if you add a lil more red to the purple, or a lil more blue, or you make it lighter so it's lavender or darker so it's plum or desaturate it a bit so it's more gray-purple or make it super saturated so it's a fushia purple, all of that is still purple right?

But if you make that item green, it is no longer purple. It is not "less purple" and the other item was "more purple". One item is purple and one item is not purple. Two purple items can look very different, but there is still such a thing as purple and not purple, and that line is pretty easily identifiable, especially by experts in color.

Now replace the word item with person and the word purple with autistic.

#autistic #autism traits #actually autism #autism diagnosis #autism spectrum disorder #autism #asd #actually autistic #actually audhd #spectrum #autistic spectrum #on the spectrum #mibingo

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Quick reminder that ASPD diagnostic criteria is gross (as with most disorders)! Basically the criteria for cluster B personality disorders is as follows

ASPD: Big, bad, scary person criminal

NPD: Abusive and/or mean to me 🥺

HPD: Hysterical woman that I cheated on my wife with and now I need to blame her for it who is a slut

BPD: Clingy bitch who acts crazy when I cheat and has Daddy Issues(TM)

#not sure why I'm even trying to get diagnosed #considering it is just going to haunt me later #mostly validation I guess #aspd vent #aspd traits #actually aspd #bpd #npd stigma #npd #hpd #diagnostic criteria #dsm #dsm V #stigma #end stigma #cluster b #personality disorder #mibingo vent #mibingo

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So I'm watching The Good Doctor at the moment and I'm starting to disagree with the opinion that it's bad representation. I can see ways that it's flawed, sure, but so far on S1E7 (I acknowledge it could get much worse over time), it doesn't really seem like they're really putting that much weight on the savant trope the way they did in the pilot, and I've already seen a multitude of genuine, serious issues addressed in the show, some of which I've listed below (Spoiler warning up until Season 1 Episode 7 for The Good Doctor):

The trauma of being autistic and not being understood

The increased risk for abuse of autistic children

Special interests (of course, that's covered by the savant trope) and the distaste other people have for autistic people talking about them, even to other people who have similar interests

"Austism moms/parents" and their harmful, infantilizing views on autistic people

Systemic ableism

Ableist microaggressions (specifically the belief that every autistic person has to both understand and like everything about every other autistic person)

People dismissing autistic people's ideas, then taking credit for them if they work out

Need for routine and familiarity

The impact of comorbid PTSD and autism

The neurological need to stim and the inability to just "turn it off" even in a medical emergency

And I know internalized ableism is dealt with in future episodes due to a spoiler I saw on tiktok

This isn't everything it's touched on of course, and it's a solid amount of genuine issues that autistic people face, and to be honest they really don't play him as this "superhuman genius" after the first couple episodes - just a guy who has a different way of thinking that gives him the ability to come up with ideas they haven't thought of.

Honestly even the guy who most acts like he's some sort of superhuman in the pilot comes to have similar concerns as to how Shaun's symptoms are impacting his ability to function in the hospital.

If anyone has (non-spoiler) explanations as to if this gets worse, please feel free to let me know tho! I will be making future posts about this as I watch on if it continues being something I personally enjoy watching as an autistic person or if it gets yikes again in the way Episode 1 was, but I'm wondering if this is a pretty solid show that suffers from a bad pilot tbh.

#autistic spectrum #actually autistic #autism traits #autism #autistic adult #autistic characters #autistic representation #the good doctor #autism representation #asd #tv #medical drama #special interest #tw ableism mention #autistic community #mibingo

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The chronic illness leaving my body after someone tells me to, and I quote, "Adapt" when I said I can't handle doing something because of my POTS.

#so fucking sick of this #keep that same energy when you need something #it will be time to adapt because I'm not helping #my goddamn chronic illness doesn't work on your fucking schedule #cry about it #I can't even get it to work on MY schedule #pots awareness #potsie #potsawareness #pots syndrome #pots #actually chronically ill #chronically ill #chronic illness #mibingo #mibingo vent

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2/16/2023

Created a version of the tbh/btw creatures but for ASPD! Meet the IDC Creature!

#mibingo #ASPD #actually aspd #aspd tag #aspd things #aspd thoughts #aspd feels #aspd awareness #aspd mood #aspd traits #aspd positivity #aspd safe #aspd memes #actually antisocial #actuallyaspd #idc creature #btw creature #tbh creature #my art #aspd creature #adhd creature #autism creature #actually cluster b #cluster b positivity #cluster b pd #cluster b pds #cluster b culture is #cluster b personality disorder #cluster b #aspd culture