#actually functionally Neurotypical bc so many diagnostics function Explicitly on a scale of dysfunction/distress | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

ceramicbeetle · 21 days ago

Text

really the problem i'm having with most of these tula fics is the fact that i do always write Tula as some level of Crazy, but then the idea of having to go through and tag that and implicitly introduce the DSM into stoat society conceptually pisses me off so bad that i don't want to make the effort to do it at all, actually. so that's why they're all hanging out in my WIP folder

#N posts stuff #LOOK. it's important that Tula is 'Crazy' and not actually like. thinking on the same wavelength as the rest of her family #but then i think about it and the idea of STOATS having a sane/insane dichotomy makes me like.... mmmmmmmmmm #generally speaking i really make no effort to Specifically 'diagnose' a character with any one specific label.#i'll use 'autism' a lot granted but i keep it vague outside of htat. which is why i tag Evan as 'schizo-spectrum' and not anything else #and why i use the tag 'brainweird' above all else #and it's because the hyperspecific labels of the DSM are - broadly speaking - unhelpful and not even particularly descriptive #having Delusions does not actually tie you into any one diagnosis. or even one at all. some doctors will happily tell you that #if you are delusional / have hallucinations but they don't distress you that bad or interfere with your life a lot then you're #actually functionally Neurotypical bc so many diagnostics function Explicitly on a scale of dysfunction/distress #under capitalist definitions of productivity btw #and not anything else. these terms have Meaning in that they are Defined but also they are meaningless in that like.#you can argue that fucking anyone can fit a diagnostic label if you're feeling uncharitable enough. psychologists do it all the time #i can talk about this extensively and i don't want to. needless to say it makes me angry and i'm annoyed by it all.#broadly speaking i DO use tags on ao3 entirely for Search functionality. if other crazy people are looking for fic about crazy #people (like me) i want us to be able to find them. unfortunately the application of them here make me want to bite someone to death

1 note · View note