shoutout to slow learners. shoutout to people who take a very long time to parse and grasp new concepts. shoutout to people who struggle to follow directions. shoutout to people who can't perform a task just after watching someone else do it. shoutout to everyone who needs learning aids, needs to take notes, needs to try multiple times, and needs to be told the explanation repeatedly.
you're not dumb. you're not lesser. you're not doing it on purpose. everyone learns at their own pace, and people forcing you to learn faster than you can are the ones causing a disruption in your ability to learn. it's not your fault.
I've made my own new SCHIZOSPEC (↭)💥 super wicked epic cool flag‼‼‼(made by an schizotic bipolar [psychotic schizospec/schizoaffective])
Each color has their own meaning, and even IRL is there❗💪⛓🧪
Is for every schizospec ever, and schizospec only🤘 FEEL FREE to use as pfp and credit me ^___^ my schizopals🤝🥼🗯
I've heard this symbol "↭" was made for schizospecs in general but others say is just for schizophrenia, correct me if I'm wrong please 🤸♂️🤼♂️🤼♂️🧞♂️🦸🏼♂️🦸🏼♂️🦸🏼♂️🥗🃏🎭🏴☠️
Credit to @actuallyschizophrenic for creating "↭" 🙏🙏🙏.
#schizospecflag #irlcreature hashtags would help a lot to make this more popular, I'd appreciate a real lot🤸♂️🤸♂️🧪🧪🧪 reblogs be sick as hell too🤘🤘🤘
Extremely Sure™ self dx culture is wanting to tell the people around you but The Condition™ is extremely stigmatized
*I want to tell them how extremely sure I am about schizophrenia but I never realized how saneist they are before I started learning about schizo-spec disorders so I worry about their reactions and if they'll even believe me :(
So, I'm officially diagnosed with Autism, but I am quite certain that I am also on the Schizospectrum, in particular Schizotypal and Schizoid personality. I've heard that it's impossible or unlikely to be able to be all because the conditions are too similar. Here I will explore the similarities and differences. I welcome polite discussion.
I absolutely definitely for a fact have Autism, there was not a misdiagnosis done. It explains my ongoing struggle with socialization both in emotional reciprocity and communicative skills. Frequent sensory overload meltdowns. Slower processing ability. Limited scope of interests. Yadda yadda.
Autistic socialization is seen as a social deficit because it doesn't mimic neurotypical socialization, when in fact it's observed that autistic people can get along with each other much better. Autistic people also have different love languages that frequently get misinterpreted. Autistic people aren't by default asocial or uncaring.
Schizoid personality on the other hand is defined strongly by genuinely not caring about people nor being social with them. Emotionally cold and distant. Solitary not because others don't want to be friends with you, but because you don't want to be friends with them.
Schizotypal personality doesn't have this strong lack of interest, it's more about experiencing extreme social paranoia and alienation due to being perceived as odd by others. Atypical perceptions and beliefs.
All may feel like they're performing in social situations. All have a strong sense of authenticity that differs from the norm.
One of my speculations is that in a case of having 2 or more diagnoses with the same trait, due to intersectionality, it is possible that this trait is more intensily present rather than just being in a on or off state, boxed ticked, done.
(Edit: just to be clear I don't mean to emphasize this girl with the tattoo as the primary perpetrator if this stuff. Idk her story, it's in kind of bad taste but there's more to this than a tattoo)
I saw this great video discussing a critique of "lobotomycore"/"lobotomy chic" and the erasure of the racist history of lobotomies.
I can't add further on the subject of race, but as a person with schizotypal I did connect it with this image
(Source, though I have not verified it by sifting through the archive)
"Lobotomy chic" and the humor surrounding it is used so often by people who I've seen have zero empathy for schizophrenic people. For disables people generally.
Even just looking at how they treat an actual lobotomy victim, Rosemary Kennedy, even when she's that archetypical 40s white woman. Her disability is erased.
Here's a popular tiktok about her. No context, just images of her younger self and her older self. Simply "she was normal, glamorous, and then she became strange, disabled." Oftentimes, her intellectual disability is treated more as a conspiracy theory than a fact of her not receiving enough oxygen at birth. People are happy to relate to her as a ~poorly behaved woman~, but not as an intellectually disabled one.
It just reminds me how this has become a sort of coquetteish phrase and a universal joke that erases everything except the low support needs disabled white woman's experience. The idea that for your eccentricities, you'd be at risk. That you might be the only one at risk, so there's no need for solidarity with the intellectually disabled, the schizophrenic and psychotic, anyone with profound or uncomfortable disabilities. Times ten thousand if those disabled people are black. And god forbid they are disabled, black, AND homeless.
every schizospec person deserves respect- severely paranoid schizospec people who struggle to form relationships, schizospec people who can't form complete sentences and struggle to converse, schizospec people who talk about their delusions with strangers, schizospec people who can't tell reality from fiction, schizospec people who are affected and unnerved by their hallucinations, schizospec people who struggle with hygiene and dressing themselves, schizospec people who can't double bookkeep, homeless schizospec people, addicted schizospec people, unmedicated schizospec people, and so on and so forth. all of us, not just those of us who can hold down jobs or be in education
This is the closest to my reality. I'm schizophrenic and I have really disturbing visual hallucinations, so I thought I would try to painted one of the scariest. It's one of my classroom, the dark being is my teacher whom I fear af.
It’s really interesting the concept of both autism spectrum and schizospectrum in that in the “high” functioning range they can look nearly identical to the point that people on the internet argue that they should be eliminated from diagnosis because the DSM doesn’t make the differences appreciable, yet people get really offended at mixups with the “low” end and they’re very different.
It’s also really interesting that the psychoanalytic literature on “high functioning” schizospectrum disorders makes the difference very clear and also makes it seem definitely possible that someone could be on both.
Also it makes me wonder if this Millon guy was an idiot, idk.
i wish more focus was given to ppl w other types of schizophrenia than paranoid bc like. its not the positive symptoms that fuck me up. its the negative and cognitive ones. nobody talks abt how fucking scary those are. nobody talks abt how terrifying disorganized schizophrenia is. i have a disorder that gives me the most debilitating mental, emotional, amd physical symptoms of depression, that cannot be treat by meds, and gets progressively worse with time. it can only be slowed or halted, not bettered, and that's only with treatment, which i personally cannot afford and is in general a privilege.