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Hard work does not always pay off; it just gets your name into the raffle, so to say. I know more people who work hard for nothing than people who’s hard work has actually gotten them somewhere.

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Disabled people are allowed to be pissed. Disabled people are allowed to be negative, angry, bitter. Abled people lament and complain about the hands they're dealt all the time. Disabled people have no more obligations than abled people to be always positive and looking for the bright sides.

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family appalled that their very quiet well behaved mature child who never caused any problems has grown up and turned out to have many many problems. more news at 8!

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It's tough being neurospicy in this economy, have 2 very chaotic pictures of my dog 🐶

Your dog is 10/10 😍

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People: Nobody should have to hide who they are. Everybody should be free to be themselves, let their true colors shine, and feel comfortable in their own skin.

Me: Ok. Cool. *stops masking neurodivergence*

People: No not like that.

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A lot of my posts seem to pick up a lot of traction here, for whatever reason. I’m happy that my posts are helping people and allowing them to feel validated in some way, but I just want to throw it out here…I made this account in order to have a place to anonymously vent about my feelings and experiences as a neurodivergent person. I never expected to get more than a couple interactions on these posts, if any. I’m not writing think-pieces for people to pick apart and debate with. If you find yourself in my words and it helps you feel seen, or if you see someone you know in my words and it helps you to understand them, that’s fucking awesome, but if you come onto my page and comment some ableist ass shit on my posts, and especially if you expect that you’re going to get some sort of dressed up civil response for the public eye, you can get absolutely fucked. This page isn’t for you and I don’t have to be respectful to you. I don’t owe you that.

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Neurotypicals stay the fuck off this post challenge.

If you’re neurotypical and you come onto this post with your “point of view” ableism, I get to hunt you down for sport.

Neurotypicals will be like “I know you have a disability that affects your ability to stay organized, manage your time properly, socialize, or control what you’re able to think about or focus on, but that’s not an excuse to have trouble staying organized, managing your time properly, socializing, or controlling what you need to think about or focus on.” And then demand that they aren’t ableist. I’m tired.

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Neurotypicals will be like “I know you have a disability that affects your ability to stay organized, manage your time properly, socialize, or control what you’re able to think about or focus on, but that’s not an excuse to have trouble staying organized, managing your time properly, socializing, or controlling what you need to think about or focus on.” And then demand that they aren’t ableist. I’m tired.

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it's all "support autistic/neurodivergent people bc they're human too!" until we start showing traits that aren't "uwu cutesy~" . it's all "support autistic/neurodivergent people!" until we call you out on your casual ableism. it's all "support autistic/ND people!" until we need you to actually stand up for us when our rights and autonomy are violated.

don't say you support neurodivergent people if you only support us when it's convenient for you.

NTs, I encourage you to reblog.

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When the fuck did the social model of disability go from "the way society is structured makes disabled people's lives harder than they have to be" to "the only thing wrong with you is capitalism"?????

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I hate having ADHD so much. It truly feels like a fucking curse. If I had the option to get rid of it, I would choose to in a heartbeat. Even if I was still autistic, it would be more manageable than having ADHD. I’m so tired of being viewed as an annoying fuck up by everyone I encounter. I’m tired of being yelled at or fired because of my memory issues. I’m tired of not being able to accomplish anything. I’m tired of pacing around thinking about how I want to do something yet being unable to get myself to start doing it. I’m tired of going hungry because I can’t bring myself to even just stick something in the microwave. I’m tired of having no fucking potential.

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You seem to be under the assumption that we all just have access to a mental health professional. That isn’t the case. Due to the fact that I have been undiagnosed and therefore unaccommodated, I have never been able to hold a job long enough to qualify for health insurance. I come from a long line of generational poverty. There isn’t anybody to help me pull thousands of dollars out of my asshole to pay for a diagnosis, and this is the story for thousands and thousands of people out there. To deny us community or language to put to our experience is to deny us something that is potentially life saving. The fact that this seemingly didn’t even cross your mind is a clear demonstration of the privilege you’ve been afforded in your life.

You also seem to have this delusional faith in doctors, meanwhile there are doctors out there who believe things like if you can speak, you can’t be autistic, or that girls can’t have adhd. Getting a degree does not mean you’re competent, or that you’re continuing to update your knowledge with more current studies and research. I had a professor in college in 2013 get up in front of the whole class and say that autism is a type of psychosis with her whole chest. She was a SPECIALIST as a second job. College is also more focused on things like task completion and executive functioning ability than it is on actually understanding and expanding on the things taught. They’re taught to regurgitate information without putting any critical thought into it. Degree =/= competence.

Another thing: just because something hasn’t been identified by a doctor does not mean that it doesn’t exist. My ADHD didn’t appear the day a doctor said that I had it. I’ve always had it. When you break your arm, it doesn’t just snap the second a doctor says your arm is broken. It was broken before that. Self-diagnosis hurts you in literally no way, shape or form. You come off as someone who, after being diagnosed, was pampered and babied by your parents over it, and now you think that self-diagnosis is taking away from your imagined specialness. You’re just another entitled person who came from privilege.

Have the day you deserve.

I see alot of people on this app as well as several other social media talking about self diagnoses so I thought I would just say something that people need to here. YOU CAN NOT KNOW WITH ANY SIGNIFICANT CERTAINTY THAT YOU HAVE A MENTAL ILLNESS WITHOUT A DIAGNOSES FROM A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL. Ask any therapist, counselor or psychologist. Or any other mental health professionals and they will tell you that doing any self diagnoses can lead to making an ass of your self. They will probably be alot nicer about it though. also WHEN YOU SAY YOU HAVE A PROBLEM YOU DON'T HAVE YOU INDIRECTLY HURT THE PEOPLE WITH THE ACTUAL FUCKING PROBLEM.

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No fucking way man

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I'm telling you you guys have to stop buying into the propaganda about disability fakers. EVEN if fakers exist to the extent that it is a massive problem, disabled people still should be given proper support. If governments and other organizations fail to deliver that it does not matter what their excuse is; they have still failed disabled people and that is unacceptable. If their solution to so-called fakers is one that harms disabled people then they have not actually solved anything, but it sure as hell is a convenient scapegoat.

It also CANNOT be overstated that many people with legitimate needs are and will continue to be labeled as fakers, a sentence which is hurtful at best and deadly at worst.