#aspd representation

[lov3-lik3-ghosts]

Hello can I request a jasper hale x reader where reader has a vary hard time with emotions and feels numb most of the time basically atpd (anti social personality disorder) I wanna know how he would react to it because of his gift

That's all have a good day (:

ASPD vs. Jasper’s Gift

Pairing: Jasper Hale x reader.

Summary: Platonic hc’s for aspd!reader and Jasper.

Warnings: Not beta nor proofread. Possible misrepresentation!!!

Format: Headcanon’s.

Word count: 275.

Authors note: Hiii, thank you for requesting, I’m so sorry for the long wait. I tried my best to create an accurate representation of ASPD but Google can only tell me so much. My apologies for any misrepresentation! Have a good day too :)

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• Jasper struggles with the lack of emotion you feel. He’s so used to being able to feel the emotions of those around him that you’re like a too deep breath of air.

• He learns how to pick up on the things that even you might not. Like changes in your expression or slight inflictions of your mood.

• He actually manages to make a small game of sending you flushes of happiness, sometimes you’re receptive and others you just glare at him.

• If you had a lack of respect towards others, he’d struggle to be around you as often. He was raised in the south and respect tends to be a big thing there.

• He loves that there’s no fear in you when you find out that they’re cold ones, it lifts a huge weight off his chest.

• He loves it a little less when your mind instantly goes to all the chaos you could cause with him because of it.

• He’s a little confused at what you feel when you find out they’re ‘vegetarians’. It’s somehow an influx of everything and nothing all at once.

• He’s actually quite sad when he realises he doesn���t often feel good emotions emit from you. He usually doesn’t like feeling any emotions at all, he feels almost like he’s being deceitful.

• He’s great at soothing any rage you feel but not so great at stopping you from being chaotic, (Emmett’s usually there to help you with the chaos (he joins in)).

• He’d never thought about you not feeling caring emotions towards him until you actually felt them (you were nearly knocked over by the reciprocation he sent your way).

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I do not give my permission for my work to be translated or reposted on this site or otherwise!

[mightymelancholy]

A form only for those diagnosed or did the research and truly believed to have Antisocial Personality Disorder. This form does not require an email.

[aspd-culture]

aspd culture is : goes into the aspd tag. seems someone claiming house md, (guy whos dxd aspd in the show im pretty sure lol) is actually hyperempathic instead of lacking it and avoids patients due to too much empathy. like ok just avoid the whole boundary pushing / whatever else ok. alright thats enough of that *turns off internet* ive had enough of prosocials damn why do they think the only aspd symptom ever is lack of empathy. god

The amount of people who take *any* ASPD rep - including but not limited to House, this was also EXTREMELY common with Wednesday Addams, who is also diagnosed with ASPD in the show Wednesday - and call it "hyperempathetic autism" is... disgusting honestly. I'm autistic too and I get the desire to have representation from non-infantalized characters, I do, but the erasure of ASPD from the very few sources who intentionally make ASPD representation is not how we handle that.

And, as you mentioned, many people intentionally overlook, ignore, or try to explain away any "bad" behavior (see also: ASPD symptoms) because it pushes against their point.

People are just... so desperate to not admit that anyone they like had ASPD that they will directly ignore and speak over the media's direct acknowledgement of ASPD just so they can see us as monsters and still have permission to like that character.

PSA to prosocials, especially those with no other experience with cluster b treatment:

When the therapist/psychologist/psychiatrist says the character "has antisocial traits" or "is antisocial", that's not a descriptor, nor does it mean they don't like people/avoid interaction with people. That's a medical professional using a different model of discussing a diagnosis with the patient by rephrasing it without the disorder attached. This is super common with ASPD because many pwASPD who are forced into treatment - like House and Wednesday - are resistant to admitting something is "wrong with them", so the professional will use the inital descriptor instead of the entire disorder name. In this case it's "antisocial" with the words personality disorder removed. It's also common to see in media happening for people with BPD, with the character being referred to as "having borderline traits" or "being borderline".

If the professional was referring to them or their traits as "asocial", then it would mean what you guys think it does - they avoid interaction, have a general dislike of socializing/social situations, and generally self-isolate. Antisocial and asocial are not the same, and while you can argue that anyone else in a show calling someone antisocial won't know the difference, their mental health professionals do. Evidently, House and the rest of the cast are also very aware in-canon of mental health, going by the DID episode which was done amazingly well imo. If House knows about Dissociative Identity Disorder, I assure you ASPD is not off of his radar. ASPD is significantly more prevalent than DID, with up to 4% of the US population having ASPD compared to 1% of the population having DID. While there is issues with under-diagnosis, those issues are the case with both disorders, so it's likely that the difference made by that would at most only slightly close the gap between the two. House also researches things purely based on the existence of stigma and/or lack of public knowledge on the subject, and frequently attempts to find out why he thinks and acts the way he does behind the scenes. If you google his symptoms, ASPD would be at least one of the things that comes up. So again, he is not misusing antisocial.

In fact, no one on House, MD would say antisocial where they meant asocial, as they are versed in psychology as a part of dealing with complex cases that have failed repeatedly to be diagnosed. That is shown constantly throughout the show. If you chose 3 episodes at random, I'm willing to bet at least one would show their experience in psychology as one of the team pushes the "it's just mental illness" angle.

All of this is to say that fuck prosocials endless refusal to actually acknowledge ASPD, both in likeable and notably unlikable characters!! Many of them HATE House, yet still can't admit he has ASPD. It's giving ableist, because it is ableist.

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The amount of people who take *any* ASPD rep - including but not limited to House, this was also EXTREMELY common with Wednesday Addams, who is also diagnosed with ASPD in the show Wednesday - and call it "hyperempathetic autism" is... disgusting honestly. I'm autistic too and I get the desire to have representation from non-infantalized characters, I do, but the erasure of ASPD from the very few sources who intentionally make ASPD representation is not how we handle that.

And, as you mentioned, many people intentionally overlook, ignore, or try to explain away any "bad" behavior (see also: ASPD symptoms) because it pushes against their point.

People are just... so desperate to not admit that anyone they like had ASPD that they will directly ignore and speak over the media's direct acknowledgement of ASPD just so they can see us as monsters and still have permission to like that character.

PSA to prosocials, especially those with no other experience with cluster b treatment:

When the therapist/psychologist/psychiatrist says the character "has antisocial traits" or "is antisocial", that's not a descriptor, nor does it mean they don't like people/avoid interaction with people. That's a medical professional using a different model of discussing a diagnosis with the patient by rephrasing it without the disorder attached. This is super common with ASPD because many pwASPD who are forced into treatment - like House and Wednesday - are resistant to admitting something is "wrong with them", so the professional will use the inital descriptor instead of the entire disorder name. In this case it's "antisocial" with the words personality disorder removed. It's also common to see in media happening for people with BPD, with the character being referred to as "having borderline traits" or "being borderline".

If the professional was referring to them or their traits as "asocial", then it would mean what you guys think it does - they avoid interaction, have a general dislike of socializing/social situations, and generally self-isolate. Antisocial and asocial are not the same, and while you can argue that anyone else in a show calling someone antisocial won't know the difference, their mental health professionals do. Evidently, House and the rest of the cast are also very aware in-canon of mental health, going by the DID episode which was done amazingly well imo. If House knows about Dissociative Identity Disorder, I assure you ASPD is not off of his radar. ASPD is significantly more prevalent than DID, with up to 4% of the US population having ASPD compared to 1% of the population having DID. While there is issues with under-diagnosis, those issues are the case with both disorders, so it's likely that the difference made by that would at most only slightly close the gap between the two. House also researches things purely based on the existence of stigma and/or lack of public knowledge on the subject, and frequently attempts to find out why he thinks and acts the way he does behind the scenes. If you google his symptoms, ASPD would be at least one of the things that comes up. So again, he is not misusing antisocial.

In fact, no one on House, MD would say antisocial where they meant asocial, as they are versed in psychology as a part of dealing with complex cases that have failed repeatedly to be diagnosed. That is shown constantly throughout the show. If you chose 3 episodes at random, I'm willing to bet at least one would show their experience in psychology as one of the team pushes the "it's just mental illness" angle.

All of this is to say that fuck prosocials endless refusal to actually acknowledge ASPD, both in likeable and notably unlikable characters!! Many of them HATE House, yet still can't admit he has ASPD. It's giving ableist, because it is ableist.

[mental-illness-bingo]

Gosh I feel this. It's one of those things that can really push ASPD symptoms to worsen, sometimes permanently, in pwASPD. Anything that feels like it's taking one thing away from us, especially by force, makes us spiral and push away anything else that was good for fear of it being taken too. Disability especially makes it feel so much less worth it to try and do the work to put in all the extra effort a pwASPD has to to interact normally - and even if you feel it is worth it, sometimes you just don't have the energy. As my conditions become more disabling, it feels less worth the fight. Why bother using my spoons to come off as kind and be social and maintain relationships when I need those spoons to get through life? Why have people around me just to see me be this weak compared to how I used to be?

And then, once you've pushed everyone and everything away, it feels like an insurmountable task to build it back up - to be everything you once were. House's body deconditioned severely, so the extra effort to become athletic again makes that take double the work. And for what? To do something he will always know he could do better and easier before the injury? It probably feels like a reminder of what he was able to do easily before that he just can't now. It's also difficult to gauge just how much is unrecoverable vs how much is reversible deconditioning until he starts trying, and that in itself can make it seem like it isn't worth it.

House made a reputation for himself as being cold and unfeeling and a serious jerk - to undo that, and get through the period of "he's being nice so he's up to something", is extremely difficult. He will never be able to get some people - honestly many people - back. And the people he puts in the effort to be nice to sometimes still don't trust him, push him away, or decide the massive effort he's putting in is not enough (looking at you Cuddy). In ASPD, that kind of thing destroys your desire to tolerate people, and sometimes causing serious violent and/or destructive urges (LOOKING AT YOU CUDDY - although that was a quick fix for the actress leaving I believe) that even further decreases your chance of a meaningful social life.

The question for many physically disabled pwASPD becomes, "Do I try to fight my physical disability to get my body to function today or fight my ASPD to be around people without being shitty to them?" because the spoons to do both just aren't there.

House is a seriously well thought out depiction of canon ASPD, and I love the writers for it. It's no accident, I'm sure after seeing the DID episode done SO well, that the writers portrayed ASPD in a realistic and non-demonized (but of course exaggerated for tv sometimes) way. They did the work to do this right and I will never ever have enough breath or characters or time to get into how well they did.

As a disabled pwASPD, it was difficult to watch at times because it was so real - and it was also so important for me to watch at this time in my life to remind me to put in the effort to keep what I have so I don't have to start over.

I feel VERY NORMAL about House, MD and Gregory House as a character.

Can’t stop thinking about House pre-infarction.

Like Stacy says he was the same before as he is after but that is so obviously not completely true.

Sure House has always had a disregard for social niceties, always been a genius, always bucked against authorities, but think about the little things we learn about him pre-infarction, and how he behaves while the ketamine treatment is effective.

He played lacrosse in High School. He was a cheerleader in college. He met Wilson at a medical conference. He met Stacy at a Doctors vs Lawyers paintball game. The infarction happened during a game of golf. After the temporarily successful ketamine treatment House goes for miles long runs, skateboards, wears nice suits.

Pre-infarction House was athletic. He cared about his appearance. He was social. He went out and did things and had relationships. Yeah he’s always been a bit of an ass, but he was an ass with a life.

It’s only post-infarction that all of that stops. His relationship ends, he only goes to conferences when forced, he can’t be athletic, he doesn’t want to be social. He can’t be bothered to do more than throw a sport coat on over jeans and a t-shirt.

His addiction aside, all of the above things showcase what a hard time he has coping with having a disability. He doesn’t find new ways to be social, find activities he can do. Instead he isolates himself. He tries to make himself unappealing. He goes to work, and he goes home alone.

The only relationship he manages to maintain is with Wilson, and he even acknowledges that House has changed when he confronts him about his Vicodin addiction. (Yes I know he has brief relationships over the course of the series but none of them can really be compared to his 5 year long, live in relationship with Stacey prior to the infarction, regardless of how one feels about her as a person.)

It just breaks my heart to know that House’s disability took so much from him, and that the resulting depression stops him from trying to seek any type of happiness, and when he does find some he’s convinced it will end.

TLDR: I have a lot of feelings about Gregory House and how his disability changed his life.

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

Having survived abuse from people with mental illnesses, I know the urge to warn others to be wary of those mental illnesses. I know how often it can feel like that is your only power in life…the only action you can take against what you went through. But listen. Just because a mentally ill person caused you complex trauma, doesn’t mean you get to generalize and slander and malign every person with that mental illness.

You do not have to forgive your abusers. but you do have to heal without spreading stigma and misinformation. you do have to heal without antagonizing or dehumanizing others who are also just trying to heal. you have to help break the cycle. because nobody can heal alone.

[coinedapothecary]

“ Care to take a Dive? ” —🫧🪷

Sunshine Character ASPD-masked

a -masked term where one masks their ASPD by pretending to be what can only be described as being a "Sunshine Character" this can mean one is pretending to be overly optimistic, overly friendly, excessively showing empathy, and so forth for safety / convenience / and other possible reasons the details are up to the user <3

flag was really only made for myself and my experiences but of course it's free to use

This term is exclusive to those suspecting or already are aware of having ASPD

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[cluster-b-culture-is]

Cluster b culture is being mad that your personality disorders are demonized in media and only portrayed as serial killers in horror movies,,,but also having those same characters being your favorites and projecting your disorder onto them anyways bc "omg they're just like me fr"

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[aspd-culture]

It’s ASPD. That’s what it is.

"house isint autistic" WHATS THIS THEN????

[maeinthekinning]

I want a nuanced portrayal of aspd where they have emotions like sadness, anger, happiness and aren't portrayed as evil but rather different moral code all while having struggles associated with aspd like struggle with impulsivity and addiction and possibly struggles with self harm

But even getting some of those is a rare feat for aspd in media

[blue-banditt]

the way I have such a strong stance on (ATLA) the writers intending Azula (NPD) / Mai (ASPD) / Ty Lee (HPD) / and Zuko (BPD) to represent the cluster b personality disorders and cannot handle ppl disagreeing, like bestie THEY'RE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS CHILL

[originallyjustolookatmemes]

For everyone with ASPD, you deserve good representation.

Help me write you an Aroallo ASPD character that represents how we can heal and be ourselves to spite our trauma without having to bend down to prosocials.

How can you help? Reblog with ramblings or comment about your personal experience of living as a pwASPD. if you aren't a pwASPD, reblogs and likes still help!

i've tried my best to do the research necessary, but the amount of ableist sites that get shoved in my face with a basic google search has pissed me off. im taking matters into my own hands and asking y'all directly for your experiences.

I haven't gone for an ASPD diagnosis because it is simply not in the cards for me right now, and would potentially be harmful for me, but i check many boxes. But I dont trust myself enough to write a solely ASPD character based off only my own experiences.

Thoughts, advice, encouragement, all is appreciated.

(Post made by Shawdios on YT)

Spice (legal name Simon) is a felinefolk/birdfolk hybrid who works as a bartender for his side of the bakery-bar Sugar & Spice that him and his caretaker formed. He grew up bouncing around in the foster system and treated like a oddity to hide due to his odd mix of genetics. But his last caretaker, Sugar, he grew to see as a genuine mother to him because she was the first to believe his side of the story and not treat him like an "Other".

Due to his feline side, he often was found hunting down squirrels, birds, and rodents as a young child. Some of which he toyed with as they died, others he simply bit and killed. This behavior off put many of his foster parents and got him transferred around to different homes quite a lot. Spice was quite the delinquent as a child, he often was provoked into fights that he most of the time lost. (The first time around at least.) But he always got a cruel form of revenge depending on the bully who knocked him down. The fighting got worse once he hit middle school, to the point where he was once expelled for half blinding another child with his claws (and going home with a broken wing and shoulder himself) By the time he's finished highschool, Sugar had adopted him and done her best to help him mellow out and process his traumas from bouncing around the system and being treated like a thing to be tamed. But, he still gets in enough trouble to gain a Conduct Disorder Diagnosis and later after he graduates an Antisocial diagnosis.

The entirety of his moral system as an adult is built on what would or would not disappoint Sugar. He's perfectly content to live out his short life baking with his mother figure, mixing drinks, and curled up by a sunny window with his nose burried in books till his bad genetics kill him, but Sugar tries to get him to at least try to interact with others. And he holds her in such high respect that he does his best to maintain a good reputation with those that stop at the bar.

His care for the world revolves solely around himself and Sugar till a birdfolk with one wing named Autumn violently enters his life (and Re-enters Sugar's) and then violently leaves it five years later.

[sometimesraven]

RAINE. I FORGOT ABOUT RAINE.

Raine is a character in House of Magi who I initially wrote into a particular scene just as a side character for forwarding the plot, but she ended up being One Of The Main Clique. Though it won't be named in-universe (due to Icarus Syndrome being a blanket diagnosis slapped on all Magi who 'act out'), I intended Raine to have ASPD and during my research I ended up becoming so annoyed with the stigma vs lived reality of these people that Raine kind of developed herself further into the story. I love her and I hope other people do too.

Not sure how to make it official that she has ASPD tbh, I might add an author's note or acknowledgement at the end that is like "did you enjoy Raine's character? Research more about ASPD and shed the stigma" with a bunch of resources maybe, because I want people to like her before they find out about her disorder so that they're forced to confront their biases.

Hello! Just stopping by with a question about writing XD Do you have any characters who's role grew bigger than you expected? Any surprising changes your characters went through during the writing process?

HEWWO!!!!!

Gosh, that's been happening to me for so long I forget half of the instances. I can say that the love interest for the fantasy project I am not currently working on was originally a fanfic OC who was supposed to die in the first fic I ever wrote him into XD

I've definitely had some of that with the Truth Saga though. Book 2, Bitter Truth, is proving to be full of surprises and character roles are included.

Initially in writing the novel, I intended for the focus to be entirely on Erik and Blade with only brief roles from other characters. It's definitely stayed that way to an extent but with Erik being one of the main characters it actually led to a lot more Lydia than I expected, and Violet is taking a more active step forward recently to the point where I now have to fight her getting her own story before Evie does (whom I've planned for book 3's main character).

Tori has surprised me a lil as well, which I didn't think she was capable of any more but here we are XD While she's already well built and pretty stable in her character, her ongoing condition related to her powers has expanded to a full blown chronic pain/mobility issue which tbh, I should have seen coming given that she's always been my subconscious way of coping with things that make me feel helpless IRL

[thenotebonthepiano]

begging for more aspd representation

[aspd-culture]

have you read the book gone girl? i know it may too cliche for some and certainly shows not-so-prosocial conduct and an aspd "bad guy" in a way, but amy was the most seen i've ever felt! i also love how the book shows nick, who is prosocial, as someone who has normal empathy and social instincts and still acts very badly, often explicitly because of those social instincts. amy is the more "in the right" character to many readers even though she is (to me) written as ultra unambiguously aspd, albeit apparently without trauma. it's sort of a wish fullfilment for bad desires. the movie doesn't focus on amy or nick's inner world and reasoning so it doesn't really show her as aspd or him as not, just a more runofthemill movie villain. i like the book though!

I haven't! For a while, I had it mixed up with Girl, Interrupted, so when I saw people recommending it on tumblr and such, I ignored it because I have read and watched Girl, Interrupted *but* Gone Girl is on my list of books to read.

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I haven't! For a while, I had it mixed up with Girl, Interrupted, so when I saw people recommending it on tumblr and such, I ignored it because I have read and watched Girl, Interrupted *but* Gone Girl is on my list of books to read.

[theokusgallery]

i have bad news for anyone who expects mental illness to be family friendly

^ yeah!

[muted--dreamer]

meet the official lineup for a game i plan to make called SOCIOPHOBIA, this will be inspired on my personal experience with trauma and how i've observed it in others. The main character will also have ASPD to reflect myself and have some better rep on ASPD in general![not everyone with it is a serial killer :((]

Rowan, Michael, Benny, and Sally

I plan to add more characters in the near future so always keep and eye out! along with this i will slowly start posting some quick concepts and such!

I do not currently have RPGMaker, but I want to use it to make this a thing! If you want to support me, you can do so on my Kofi! https://ko-fi.com/an0nymxus_

better reference sheets will be provided in the future <3