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The plan is to MOVE. Move out. Move on. Move forward. Move up. Move smarter
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May I complain for a moment.
My biggest pet peeve in psychology and the nd community is seeing every thing that falls under being neurodivergent labeled as “this is an autism thing”.
No. It’s not an autism thing. It’s an ADHD/Autism/OCD/C-PTSD/etc thing.
And it’s not like I don’t understand, it’s social signaling to try to find people like you. It’s saying “does anyone else with autism experience this” without saying it in that manner.
However.
It’s very frustrating to see things that are experienced over a wide spectrum of neurodiversity always watered down to “it’s autism”. And some of the things people like to say “this is an autism thing” are just things that are normal human experiences.
What it does is it waters down the meaning of autism until *everything* looks like autism, and perpetuates the idea that any neurodivergent behavior *has* to be autistic behavior. Which leads to people getting misdiagnosed, or self misdiagnosing.
“I struggle with social cues I must be autistic.”
NO. NO. YOU COULD HAVE OCD. YOU COULD HAVE ADHD. YOU COULD BE TRAUMATIZED. YOU COULD HAVE A PD. YOU COULD HAVE A DISSOCIATIVE OR PASSIVELY PSYCHOTIC DISORDER. NOT EVERYTHING IS AUTISM AND IF YOU JUST JUMP TO ITS AUTISM YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND YOURSELF AND YOU WILL GET THE WRONG TREATMENT AND THE WRONG CARE IF YOU TRY TO JUST LABEL EVERYTHING AS AUTISM
And then you will wonder why the symptom management doesn’t work. And you will think there’s something wrong with you when the wrong treatment doesn’t work for you. And all you’re doing is hurting yourself.
Not everything is autistic behavior. Not all neurodivergent behavior is autistic. I get so frustrated seeing normal neurodivergent behavior labeled as purely autistic traits.
And maybe this rubs me even worse because I got misdiagnosed with autism when I needed an adhd and ASPD diagnosis. And I couldn’t get the right care for years because of it. I had to give myself treatment for my ASPD and I’m still fucking struggling to manage it because I have *never* had the resources and I’m doing it from scratch all on my own. And I have NO fucking clue how to manage my ADHD, and I’ve never been able to manage my ADHD, and I can’t get medication to help my ADHD because I still don’t have an official diagnosis nor do I have the means to get one and this would have been solved YEARS AGO if it wasn’t all chalked up to “high functioning autism”.
There are other forms of neurodiversity than just the autism spectrum. The idea that all neurodivergent behavior is autistic behavior *hurts* people. And it’s so normalized to treat all neurodivergent behavior as purely autistic behavior that people who do not have autism at all or exhibit signs of it will see *one* trait that is a shared neurodivergent trait and seek treatment for autism because there isn’t any *breathing room* for other neurodiversities to exist in the media and in practiced psychology these days.
And it’s getting better. Slowly. But there are things we can change in our day to day speech and the way we talk about neurodivergent behaviors and traits to speed up that progress in recognition and support of neurodivergent disorders outside of just autism (and ADHD has this issue too to an extent but not nearly as severe as autism).
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Devi Vishwakumar is one of the best main female characters and I will deeply miss her.
I love how unapologetically messy and chaotic she was. It was a wild ride seeing her make some questionable decisions. It was great to see a woman of color allowed to be messy and entangled in romantic affairs. It was amazing to see Tamil representation and how it focuses on family relationships and how difficult it is to handle cultural and generational differences. Ultimately, NHIE is about a teenager navigating grief and such a traumatic event. Devi and Nalini’s relationship was extremely complicated but perfectly illustrates how difficult it is to raise your kid when you have been raised differently so seeing their relationship grow and evolve to such tender and supportive bond was such a beautiful journey to have witnessed.
Devi was messy, cringey, confused, frustrating but also funny, driven, smart, kind and deeply human. She was allowed to make mistakes and try again until she figures it out. Her growth this season was so brilliant to see and she’s going to make many more mistakes in the future but already has such great support system in her life. Has learned to value herself and her worth. I love she got to have her romantic ending, her dream school and loved for all of her messiness.
I will miss Devi and every character in NHIE, as a show is definitely one I will rewatch multiple times and I cannot wait to see what Maitreyi does with her future because she’s brilliant.
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New Show is released. New Show is loved by many viewers. New Show is not yet renewed. social media campaigns for renewal of New Show. PSAs to play episodes of New Show on loop in the background to get viewership up for New Show. urgency to binge New Show so they see good views for New Show. pleading and begging and tagging special media accounts to get another season of New Show. New Show is cancelled. social media outcry and petitions to save New Show trend for a week. New Show is not picked up. New Show says cancelled. they start making a New New Show and it all starts the fuck over again. I gotta be honest I'm really fucking tired of this shit
