someone (a headmate) wanted me to ask if "propeganda receiver" or anything like that was an alter role. Because we have some alters with like really uhhh bad takes.
Just OSDD things: hoarding shopping receipts because you're scared you will forget what happened the past months and they can help you reconstruct where you were and what happened when.
we are so ableist about memory. people with good memory take for granted the fact that they can recall as much as they can, and use that to taunt, guilt and threaten people with memory issues. many neurotypes and mental illnesses cause memory lapses. traumatic brain injuries can cause memory lapses. brain cancer can cause memory lapses.
even if your memory is good, it's not right to guilt someone because they can't remember something. trust me, people with memory problems are desperately trying to remember: it's just that we literally can't. it is a very literal "i can't remember".
seeing people my age talk about how scared they are of memory loss, which they only associate with old age, is so surreal to see as a 24 year old who has actively experienced memory loss for a long time now
there are causes for memory loss besides dementia and alzheimer’s, i hope y’all know that. dissociative disorders, trauma, brain injuries, thyroid problems, even just stress and lack of sleep can fuck up your ability to store, process, and access memory. and that’s just a few of the many causes i can think of off the top of my head right now.
please stop treating disabled people like some scary “other” that you might become only in the distant, decades-away future. we are your age, too. you may become one of us sooner than you know. stop acting like memory loss marks the end of a life, when so many of us have so much living left to do!
People with psychotic disorders are neurodivergent too.
People with personality disorders are neurodivergent too.
People with substance abuse disorders are neurodivergent too.
People with tic disorders are neurodivergent too.
People with bipolar disorder are neurodivergent too.
People with dissociative disorders are neurodivergent too.
Neurodivergence isn’t just ADHD, autism, anxiety, and depression. (Plus those last two also get left out sometimes!) Neurodivergence is anything that affects your brain.
“Neurodivergent people hate loud noises” is actually just as valid as a statement as “neurodivergent people have delusions,” “neurodivergent people have tics,” or even “neurodivergent people have low empathy.”
Day two of my disability month edits: Edit of a character who helped with acceptance of your own disability
Row one flag: DID/OSDD
Row two flag: Psychosis
Row three: Autism
Reasons are under the cut!
Lucy (Elfen Lied) - Again, I can not recommend Elfen lied but Lucy/Nyu/Kaede was the first DID character I came across in anime. While in the anime her DID only becomes apparent after a brain injury, given her extensive trauma and I believe she had DID before then.
Rui (Project sekai) - Not a canon system, but when our own system fell into hard times we wrote a (now deleted) fic about Rui having DID and coming to terms with his diagnosis. This really helped us and I'm sad we deleted the fic but it was becoming too personal to continue.
V Flower (Vocaloid) - Technically every vocal synth helped with this as we made what we call the 'vocaloid system' a system with every vocaloid ever in it. Although we haven't thought about the way the system would interact V Flower is one of the main protectors in this AU.
Yuki (School live) - The best psychosis/schizophrenic character in anime imo, there are issues with her character and the way she's treated, but I love seeing a character with psychosis who us never demonized for it and is encouraged by her friends to be herself.
Yohane (Love Live) - I was originally going to add her to the system category but before we realized we're a system we strongly saw her as psychotic and Yohane being a delusion.
Charlotte (Hello Charlotte) - A canonically psychotic character in a stunning game I latched onto her so hard when we first displayed psychosis as a symptom
Sho (Mob psycho) - Logically I should have chosen Mob, but when I watched mp100 I latched onto Sho so here he is!
Rina (Love Live) - She uses a robot face to express emotions because she doesn't know how to and speaks in a monotone. While her autism isn't confirmed there's enough in source to help me come to terms with my own disability.
Haruka (Free!) - Tbh pretty much ever sports anime character ever could go here but Haruka holds the most autistic potential imo
boy it would be nice to be able to google something related to personality disorders, psychosis, intellectual disabilities, autism, DID/OSDD, etcetera without finding majority articles that are like “how to deal with a person with X” “how to cope with your child with X” “how to spot someone faking X” “can people with X be cured?”