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Ok so therapy is like a map. It won't fix your problems for you but it will give you a guide of where to go and how to improve. Learning the commonly used tools and techniques can genuinely help you improve even if you're not in therapy.

That's the reason things like self diagnosis can be extremely helpful in some cases. It gives you a starting point as to what skills to build up and where to look for more treatment information. Plus like if/when you start looking for therapist, you know a bit about what kind of therapist to look for and what you want in a therapist.

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as a severely mentally ill 14 year old, I remember thinking “the medical system would treat me better if I was physically ill and not mentally ill” and then I coincidentally developed multiple chronic illnesses and found out that actually they dgaf even when you’re essentially bedridden

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i think a lot of people think autism is a choice. not being autistic is a choice, like you're autistic because of genetics or vaccines or lack of prayer in school or whatever, but that not reading social cues is a choice rather than genuinely not knowing what someone meant. or not making eye contact is a choice rather than it not occurring to you that eye contact has any value at all. or you're choosing to interrupt rather than you truly don't know when it's your turn to talk. or you're choosing to hit yourself or wordless-yell when that feels like the only option or just kinda happens.

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people also need to learn that "disability" isnt an umbrella of specific diagnoses its a label for your lived experience. the people you make fun of for being too anxious to order at restaurants are experiencing debilitating anxiety. thats a severe impact on someones quality of life. there will be conditions that are always disabling and there will be conditions that disable some but not others. unfortunately there just wont ever be a type of useless disabled person thats okay for you to use as a punching bag

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Like you can call yourself disabled in the most casual and neutral manner possible and people will still respond with stuff like "aww don't call yourself that you're not any less of a person" like YOU'RE the one reading that meaning into it my dude I literally didn't say that

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Autistic brain really is like, "you have to overexplain so there is absolutely zero chance for misinterpretation"

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I feel like, even in the Tourette Syndrome community, us with coprolalia are outsiders. We're the "15%", we're the "stereotype", we're the "nobody with Tourettes actually has that". Tourette Syndrome is already such an isolating condition and having coprolalia can make it more so. Even when I've met people with tics IRL I've never met someone with copro.

To everyone with coprolalia/praxia reading this please know that just like everyone else with Tourettes you also should never need to suppress for other people. Your tics do not represent your thoughts or beliefs. Don't ever feel like a bad person for your tics. You're always welcome in the Tourettes community.

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I'm wishing a very Happy Pride Month to all the queer people who:

are disabled

are chronically ill

can't celebrate for health reasons

disability gets in the way of their gender representation

disability got in the way of a relationship

don't have anyone to celebrate with

have homophobic caretakers

Happy Pride Month to all disabled queer people

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#good post#but lets not use criminal as an insult. that's classist as fuck#also arguably racist looking at the us “justice” system

This is also very true actually. I meant it more as a descriptor and less as an insult but yeah I completely get how it comes across now that I think on it.

Reminder for Tumblr that anyone can be defined as a criminal with how fucked the system is, especially with it's biases against marginalised communities, so using it as a negative catch-all isn't the way to go at all either.

Reminder that political figures, abusers, bigots and general bad people aren't "delusional", "brain-dead", "narcissistic" or "psychotic" for the horrible things they do.

They're assholes. Or arrogant. Or power hungry. Or abusive. Or bigoted. Or heavily biased. Or criminals. Or violent. Or aggressive. Or out of touch. Or genocidal. Or any other descriptive word for what they're doing that doesn't make an already stigmatised symptom any more demonised.

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"Autism doesn't cause you to be rude"

"Autism doesn't cause you to ignore boundaries"

"Autism doesn't cause you to..."

Shut the fuck up, kindly.

Sometimes it sounds like some of you are just so scared of Autism being seen as a "bad" or "scary" disorder that you'll blatantly ignore genuine struggles people face due to Autism and then spread around some wild misinformation.

There are many autism caused reasons why we end up being seen as and called scary, creepy, rude, cruel, annoying, loud, ignorant, mean, cold, selfish, self centred, self absorbed, assholes, callous, uncaring, uninterested, inappropriate, clingy, obsessed, crazy, detached, emotionless, and the list goes on.

And quite often, we end up being let down by everyone around us because we don't have access to the care, support, understanding, guidance, patience, that we all need and want.

We really don't need to be let down by our own community, too.

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"i'm so delulu" no, you are so ableist. psychotic people can hear you. you're not cute and you're not dealing with a delusion just because you're fixated on something. if you say you hate ableism then do this, you sure the hell do not. psychotic people are not your personal punching bag. stop it.

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This might be a little weird, but do you know any terrorpunk/madpunk related songs? Or at least, songs related to schizophrenia?

We don't have any on hand right now--we might remember to come back to this later on but for now, maybe someone in the notes can help?

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Reminder that political figures, abusers, bigots and general bad people aren't "delusional", "brain-dead", "narcissistic" or "psychotic" for the horrible things they do.

They're assholes. Or arrogant. Or power hungry. Or abusive. Or bigoted. Or heavily biased. Or criminals. Or violent. Or aggressive. Or out of touch. Or genocidal. Or any other descriptive word for what they're doing that doesn't make an already stigmatised symptom any more demonised.

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Here’s your reminder that AAC users can be absolute dicks, can have the worst opinions, can be the most hateful people on the planet. And that still doesn’t give you the right to take away their communication. Because you literally cannot do that to fully verbal/non AAC users. The fact that you think you CAN do that to a person in the first place is horrifically gross.

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Autistic spaces are getting so much more hostile towards people with low empathy, and it sucks

There was a subreddit I really liked, people were chill, and then there was a sudden influx of people making posts like ‘Autistic people have empathy! Saying we don’t makes us seem like monsters! Thats not a symptom!’ And people making posts explaining that no, actually, some of us do have low empathy got attacked and told they were wrong or ableist? And it sucks, because its just so hard to find a place to exist where you can be seen as not evil? I don’t know, it just hurts a lot to be told that