#not professionally diagnosed

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#not professionally diagnosed #not self diagnosed #but a secret #sexier #third thing. #✨peer diagnosed✨ #mercrx

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[psychiatricwarfare]

our autism isnt professionally diagnosed and it definitely wasnt self diagnosed either, but a secret third thing :)

#fungal spores #actually autistic #autism #asd #the secret is that multiple medical professionals have told us that we fit the bill for level 1 autism perfectly but refuse to diagnose us #because we dont 'look' autistic... despite that literally being mentioned as a possibility in level 1 autism.........

[butchfalin]

one day when futaba and akira are hanging out she goes "hey can i ask you a few questions? or... 80, specifically?" and akira says yeah sure and then after they're done he's like so was that just for fun orrr and futaba goes

#not professionally diagnosed or self diagnosed but a secret third thing (diagnosed by your little sister) #yeehaw #futaba sakura #akira kurusu #persona 5 #yeah. sure. i sketched that futaba in like 2 minutes on paper bc i don't have my ipad on me but needed to get out the message #this isnt My score btw this is the result of me taking it and answering what i think akira would do. Which is a normal thing everyone does! #anyway. i think akira is autistic. that's all #oh also if anyone is unaware that's the raads-r result. Yeah.

[inkskinned]

i both firmly believe that self-diagnosing saved my life and i think that the way tiktok and instagram have recently been spreading misinformation about mental illness/neurodivergence is incredibly harmful.

people who are looking for answers are already people who are in a vulnerable situation.

much of the misinformation appears logically sound; and is presented as definitive fact (prefaced with claims such as "research shows"). it's imperative we remember correlation does not prove causation. it is incredibly dangerous to make definitive statements like "if X happened in your childhood, you now Z as an adult." real scientists will almost always use may or other less-definitive terms. similarly, equating one behavior/experience with any single condition is also unsafe. many conditions have overlapping symptoms; and many people "mask" their key symptoms, even to themselves.

we cannot discern from a singular data point any conclusion. in official diagnosis, for a behavior/experience to be considered a symptom, it must significantly influence your life. many people enjoy an organized space. that is a preference. disrupting your daily life even at personal cost in order to prioritize organization is more likely a symptom.

again, a single data point is not an effective diagnostic tool. it is necessary and important work to catalogue and consider all unwanted/distressing behaviors in order to understand a complete picture of the person.

i will see creators in paid partnerships make generalized behavioral/emotional claims that apply to a large portion of a community, and then they will suggest that the "solution" to that behavior is through their paid partner/through their personal support. "follow for more psych tips/facts" is an incredibly evil marketing tactic. i very rarely see unpartnered/unbranded content on how to aid/comfort those behaviors and feelings.

much of the misinformation employs a subtle technique (called confirmation bias) of setting up a conclusion before "proving" the conclusion. "you know you have X when you experience A,B, and C." no person's experience of their conditions/behaviors will look exactly the same as another's. while knowing certain things might be a sign/symptom of a condition, it is irresponsible to consider it definitive.

confirmation bias is unfortunately extremely effective on tiktok specifically. the algorithm will notice that you interacted longer with the video that "proves" (through a singular video) that you "have" a condition. it will continue to feed you related videos that further confirm what you believe.

this is dangerous because we are, unfortunately, not good at knowing ourselves. i did not know it was unusual to vividly nightmare every night; i didn't consider it a symptom. i was similarly dismissive also of any other signs of my PTSD - i incorrectly assigned them to anxiety/adhd. on the small scale, this can mean a longer journey to healing. on the larger scale, it can mean people with extremely difficult situations are unable to get the help they need.

please, if you can, and you're looking to self-diagnose: be careful about what you assume about yourself. try to keep an honest journal of what you're thinking/feeling/doing for a few days.

do not go in with an assumption. try to keep an open mind. i think we all "suspect" we have something - but like i said, i completely missed my own PTSD symptoms, because i suspected the ADHD the most, and only "saw" those symptoms.

do your own research. if the tiktok says "research shows", google that research. figure out who paid for that research. do further research related to that study - has it ever been repeated? is it peer reviewed? do other researchers seem to accept it as conclusive?

if you feel you really resonate with the materials of one person's experience with a condition, find other examples. see if you relate to other creators who identify similarly.

and please - please do not stop once you come to a conclusion. i fully believe that the diagnostic process should be seen as a first step, not a destination. by knowing what you might be struggling with, you gain an incredibly powerful tool on how to gain peace with that condition.

if you feel yourself emotionally respond to a tiktok/etc that suggests something that might be true about yourself, i'm glad you had that experience. but it's also important to not relax into the "easy" answer. interrogate it. start googling what else that could mean; what ways you could work on healing that wound.

healing does not "belong" to any one condition. i want you to begin to look into healing no matter if you have "proven" you have a condition or not. it is never selfish to practice responsible self-care. even if you don't relate to having adhd, you are not harming me by using adhd-inspired study tips. it is not making my condition worse for you to seek peace by asking for more time on tests. even if it was - the fault would be with the system, not in your need of something the system makes inaccessible.

remind yourself that everything you experience is real. and because it is real, it is complicated. while things might be related - even sometimes clearly related - a stranger on the internet cannot make that discernment for you. you as a person deserve the work, attention, and care that goes into the process of unravelling the harm that has been done to you.

it makes me very, very upset to see how popular these videos have become, because they're so irresponsible. and they clearly are targeting a vulnerable group. for example, making generalized claims about children of unloving caretakers is targeting those who have experienced neglect. there is no way to use 30 second videos to correctly analyze what that neglect might have caused in your adult life. i'm sorry, but it's snake oil.

i know it is so powerful soothing to recognize that you aren't broken. that others exist like you out there. i want every person looking for answers to find their answer. i want you to feel seen and heard and understood. i want you to find your community.

i just want it to happen safely.

#every time i write this im like #i just want to say a short thing about this #and every time it ends up being 12 pages long #but since it keeps happening #and i keep seeing shit like this... #this isn't even everything i feel about this #i hope this is clear like #what im saying is #NOT ''you don't have it if u selfdiagnose'' #it's instead.... #you might!!! just don't let 1 or 2 videos confirm it!! #also!!! don't assume that symptom A belongs to condition X!! #even as someone who did eventually get diagnosed like #i still find myself being like - oh that's my adhd #only to figure out 12 hours later. nope that was a panic attack #also none of those videos are about how to HELP the behavior #also this doesn't talk about getting a therapist eventually but please get professional help if you can #it took me fucking forever tho #what im saying is that in the meantime #u can heal now #this is too long im posting it on a sunday so nobody reads it

[artkaninchenbau]

An AWS comic

#My art #For the record I am not a medical professional and as far as I know AWS isn't even something you can be diagnosed with??? #It's so hard to describe what the two sensory hallucinations really *FEEL* like #Like the time one... You know how a dramatic slow motion scene looks like in an anime? #It's like that but if you made it a 60 fps interpolated version of it #It is an absolutely bizarre feeling #Meanwhile the hyper awareness and everything feeling intense feels like how a fisheye lens shot in an anime feels #No I could not be bothered to try to figure out how to draw that for this comic #For the record I haven't actually had those visual hallucinations since I was a small small child #Hell I don't even think I had any hallucinations in my teens at all like #The sensory ones just kinda started happening again in the past 7 years or so? #Also the swelling sensation I've only had once so far. Usually I get the hyper awareness sensation #(Also sometimes I get this intense feeling of swaying when I go to bed but that might not be an AWS thing??) #(Like there's other things that could make you feel like you're rocking on a boat when laying down so I didn't include that) #No I have never talked to anyone about these hallucinations because for the longest time I didn't know what they were #And they are like. Harmless. Like I'm 100% aware they're just strange sensations but not real at all #They last max 15 minutes if even that long and they happen like super rarely #Only once have I had the hyper awareness be SO INTENSE it made me feel distressed #So like. It doesn't really affect my life at all? So why bother with it? #Also IDK if I could even go to a doctor and ask about AWS and have them know what that even is #And even if I could as far as I know there is no treatment for it so like. Whatever #As long as I don't start having distressing hallucinations or visual hallucination's I'll be fiiiiiine

[feelingthedisaster]

watching tv with my mom, a pyschologist, is so funny. she just diagnosed castiel with autism

#she literally once said to me unprompted “castiel is autistic” #he has been diagnosed by a professional so its canon ig #spn #supernatural #castiel #autistic castiel #spnfandom #spn castiel #i cant think of more tags

[cecelovesrats]

he has ratism

#i'm diagnosing him i'm a professional #rat: olly #ratblr #rats #pet rats #fancy rats #my rats #rat #rodent

[dostoyevskyuri]

so obsessed with this being written in 2009...ahead of the curve...

#diagnosed failgirl by professional literary analyst.. #.txt

[gummy-worms-in-my-brain]

do people see it too or am i alone with this hc

#rouxls kaard #deltarune #so that theres no misunderstanding im professionally diagnosed w StPD. i look at things rouxls does and my brain goes “it all makes sense” #but also im really bad at reading into things so i may be wrong regarding all this. could just be my brain projecting sdjfkds #its okay to disagree with this hc. but please be nice about it.

[natelia-aldelliz]

On account of me trying to cure my insomnia with minecraft (don't try it doesn't work), here's some dumb headcanons :

Johnny "what do you mean you can be both adhd and autistic, my doctor in 2005 told me it was one or the other?" Mactavish goes in his world with brilliant ideas for a good looking base because he's an ✨artist✨ and then he spends hours mining, not for ressources but because the blocks breaking rhythmically are hypnotizing, while his house is still just a bed out in the open surrounded by hundreds of chests.

Simon "is not actually diagnosed bc it's not like his father was gonna allow that and after all that time he thinks everyone thinks and does what he does" Riley, only plays on peaceful, makes giant square farms and carefully ordered chests full with stacks of everything in the game he can get on that difficulty.

Gaz and Roach play competitive minecraft games on public servers, toxic as hell but they're funny enough it usually makes people laugh at them.

Price plays skyblock, Nik has a hardcore world, Laswell had a server with all three of them plus her wife some years ago and it was chaotic as hell, and Nik and Price had their beds together 😳 and they weren't even together yet, the scandal! And Kate was desperately trying to stop her at the time fiancée from burning everything down for fun.

#cod mw2 #john soap mactavish #simon ghost riley #kyle gaz garrick #captain john price #cod nikolai #gary roach sanderson #kate laswell #ghostsoap #soapghost #nikprice #i don't know why i like the idea of everyone assuming ghost is diagnosed autistic bc that's just so obvious including medical professionals #and meanwhile ghost is just like ? but diagnosed with what? #and soap is audhd but his adhd wins most of the time #tag yourself i'm soap #i had plans and i managed to do none of them

[leiawritesstories]

we as a society don't adequately address how physically, emotionally, and mentally hard the menstrual cycle is on a woman's body and we really should be talking about this

#for all the ladies #menstruation #menstrual cycle #periods #period talk #not fandom #it's always oh you'll be fine in a few days #never how can i help? what do you need? #we brush it off bc “it just happens” #when we really need to be addressing how bad it can get #and also how if it's so bad you can't fucking move THAT IS NOT NORMAL AND YOU SHOULD SEE A HEALTH PROFESSIONAL #speaking as someone who only got diagnosed with pcos after years of hell periods #we need to talk about this

[stinkythehutt]

looking at how george lucas writes anakin in the prequels, it’s actually quite interesting what an understanding he seems to have of complex trauma & particularly of attachment trauma and how that manifests in a person’s adult life - not just in the big moment in ROTS but also broadly running through anakin’s characterisation throughout AOTC and beyond - especially as this kind of detailed understanding really didn’t enter the public lexicon until the last decade or so. he kind of ate that up

#teddy talks #like it’s one thing to have a vague notion of this stuff #it’s another to communicate it so thoroughly that psych professionals at the time were able to be like ‘this character has bpd’ #thoughts on personality disorder diagnoses aside - this wasn’t something that had permeated public consciousness yet #so really interesting that he had such a keen grasp #i wonder if he knew someone who’d had similar experiences. or had them himself? idk

[faustandfurious]

Obsessed with the fact that my ex-therapist thought reading Zapffe would fix whatever was wrong with me.

#faust.doc #professionally diagnosed with pessimism deficiency i guess

[arcadekitten]

Hello! hello! Again! Since you've shown some of your characters (ex: Mary our sweetheart) is autism, is there any characters of yours that has ADHD by any chance? Just Curious!

This is a question I get sometimes and I've always been a bit hesitant to answer it, mostly because when it comes to things like this I like to tread carefully and I never want anyone to feel misrepresented!

However I've been discussing it with my close friends who have official diagnoses and they're helping me by being sort of "sensitivity readers" for me to make sure I'm doing alright with it!

So, with that said...

Crowven and Mitzi have ADHD

Ollie and Zapara have AuDHD (Autism + ADHD)

#and again if you ever feel like something is being misrepresented let me know! #and when i say official diagnoses I don't mean to discredit those who havent had the chance to get diagnosed #its just that they have experience talking to professionals about this stuff so i trust and value their input greatly #crowven #mitzi #ollie #zapara #ask

[curioscurio]

Reading some more books about autism ! I don't quite know if I'm on the spectrum (a lot of tests seem to lean towards yes) but still! A lot of them make the very lonely person inside me feel seen and understood a little more than before :]

#im not gonna lie im a little hesitant to get seriously tested. a lot of professionals think its a trendy tik tok thing and i have a feeling #that i wouldnt be taken seriously anyway #besides in the us theres pretty much no benefit to being professionally diagnosed as an adult and only consequences #i also think i need to find a therapist who specializes in cptsd cuz boy howdy. theres a lot of other stuff underlying that has sat dusty #in my brain for a long time #i just need a psychologist thats willing to get down and dirty with my trauma because i sure am not good at it on my own #also if anyone knows anytging about house fires leaving you technically homeless at the age of 9 and how that affected you in life. #shoot it my way lol