My Opinion on Self-Diagnosis

I see a lot of people on Tumblr talking about how they’re “self-diagnosed”. They can “diagnose” themselves with a wide range of things, including, but not limited to: Autism, ADHD, ADD, depression, anxiety, and mania. As someone who is medically diagnosed autistic, depressed, and anxious, this infuriates me.

I know several people (who will remain unnamed and untagged, because I don’t want them to face hate) on this website who have diagnosed themselves with autism, and, granted, looking at symptoms, you may think they are. But they aren’t. I say this so strongly because you cannot say someone has a disease that requires medical diagnosis when they have not been diagnosed by a doctor who specializes in diagnosis of that particular illness. 

There are, of course, certain diseases, afflictions, and injuries that you can diagnose yourself. For example, I am self-diagnosed with trichotillomania. However, when I saw my psychiatrist, she confirmed that I do, in fact, have this condition. You can also diagnose a cold, a superficial injury (i.e. a broken bone) or something like migraines. I do not condemn that.

“But what if you can’t afford to be diagnosed with something that you think you have?”

It doesn’t matter. If you think you have autism or anything in that area, inform others that you are triggered or overstimulated by certain things, but do not tell them you are autistic. If it is something like a heart condition, seek medical help and ask them to treat you pro-bono, and if they don’t, call your healthcare provider to avoid paying unnecessary fees. Do not self-diagnose. 

Self-diagnosis is not only incredibly disrespectful to medically-diagnosed individuals, it is also bad for you. You could seriously hurt yourself trying to treat your “diagnosis” with medication or other means of “treatment”. 

Get medically diagnosed. If you can’t, explain what your symptoms are, but absolutely do not diagnose yourself unless your condition can be medically diagnosed.

Also, the pure ignorance in thinking that when medical diagnosis/treatment is too expensive, you can just ask for it to be cheaper???

"Explain what your symptoms are, but dont self-diagnose" sounds an awful lot like "tell people what you need but dont use accessible vernacular or common knowledge"

Venue owner honest god just fucking told me I had to go find the "lanky, scruffy guy with brown hair in a plaid button-up and thick glasses" at open mic comedy night.

Imagine you went to a drag show and someone earnestly asked you to go backstage and get the person wearing a wig and glitter eyeshadow for them. That's what I'm working with here.

no. yknow what? fuck you. *uncaramelizes your dansen *

no. you know what? fuck this. fuck you. *untwos your trucks*

yknow what? fuck this. fuck you. *unlemons your demons*

Americans- put your Thanksgiving Wokeness where Your Mouth is.

This is the website of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe.

These are the People who met the “pilgrims”.

 In spite of this, the US government doesn’t fully acknowledge their sovereignty as a Tribal Nation, or human rights, or their right to live in their own home land.

They are trying to keep their last few scraps of land out of the greedy grabbing hands of the Tr^mp Administration.

Land is more than square footage. It’s ancestral sites, it’s the right to say ‘We live here and you can’t just throw us out when it’s convenient to you’, and it’s Family for generations, and it’s Home.

Donate to help them keep it, and to fund their community programs, education, healthcare, senior services and more.

i have difficulty coming 2 grips with the fact that there is serious a piece of media that my mutuals seriously like surrounding a cannibal named fucking hannibal

like can you imagine what his mom feels like? like “oh god, my son hannibal’s grown up 2 be a cannibal. now i’m starting 2 worry 4 his poor little brothers harson and hanslaughter…”

my sense of humor: getting birthday cards with the wildly incorrect age on it for people

I see this and raise you: getting cards for a wildly different occasion and customizing them to fit the holiday you need

throwback to the time my partner put in his 2 week notice with a birthday card for a 2 year old

King

saw this on twitter and wanted to save it here

New sewing machine: Nooo I need software updates.

My 1904 Singer 15: Just put your back into treadling, I can sew through more layers than you dare to attempt and I will still sew through them when the sun burns out if you remember to oil me

My digital watch from like 2004: perma-dead. You think a new battery will help? It laughs at your pain. It mocks your futile scrambling. Nothing can bring it back

My pocket watch from 1872: tick tock bitch

next time someone talks about welfare fraud, remember that if you’re homeless you’re not supposed to have food stamps and if you lose your home and don’t report it to DSHS so they can take away your food stamps that’s welfare fraud

when i was on ABD (aged, blind, and disabled benefits – the only cash aid available to disabled people while we’re applying for SSI, a monthly $197) literally all money you get can be deducted from these benefits. this means that if someone sees you digging through the trash for food and gives you $20 the government will only pay you $177 that month. if you don’t report that $20 it’s welfare fraud

astute readers might realise that there’s no way anyone in the country can be expected to live off of $197 a month, and that that would have to be supplemented by another source of income. and if that money is going to disappear as soon as that other source of income hits $197, it might as well not exist. you’re right!

when i was on ABD i had a patreon running that brought in a steady $13 a month. the person in charge of my case rounded up the amount of money i was getting to $15. i was penalised by $15 for making $13.

This is how the government keeps disabled people homeless. We aren’t seen as productive and profitable to society, so we’re slowly weeded our and killed this way. Our country is and has been enacting nothing short of a genocide on disabled people.

Ok so I've found a way to describe what Neurodivergent Can't Do Task Mode™ feels like to neurotypicals

So you know how you can't make yourself put your hand down on a hot stovetop? There's a part of your brain that stops you from doing that? That's what Neurodivergent Can't Do Task Mode™ feels like

Even if we want to do it, there's a barrier stopping us from doing it, and it's really hard to override

And why does our brain see the task as a hot stovetop? Because when neurotypicals finish a task, they get serotonin, but we don't get that satisfaction after completing a task. A neurotypical wouldn't get serotonin from putting their hand on a hot stovetop, it would just hurt. When we can't do a task, it's because our brain knows that the task will hurt (metaphorically) and wants to avoid that.

It's not that we're choosing not to do the task, it's that our brain is physically preventing us from doing it.

Neurotypicals can and should reblog but please don't add anything

(Sorry/not sorry about the random bolding, it makes it easier for us to read)

Oh that’s a great example. It’s not even really a metaphor in some cases. Because this is exactly what some of our brains are doing. For one reason or another the brain thinks that the task in question is dangerous or harmful and the mechanism keeping us from doing it is a survival mechanism.

I am but a horse rearing away from a suspicious paper bag while neurotypicals laugh at me for reacting sensibly to environmental threats.

Important

Adding this because they’re safe for dogs too

How are turkey skin and bones not safe? Please elaborate.

Dunno about skin, but Turkey bones, and avian bones in general, are really easy to shatter. If a dog eats said shards, it could tear up their insides.

Important for all pet users!!

Turkey skin like many kinds of bird skins is very fatty, and cats and dogs can’t handle as much dietary fat as humans.

This image is cursed, but not toward you, rather against any that try to wrong you.

THIS IMAGE IS A WARD

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The wild euphoria of “Yes YES”😩👌

Blake’s “The Tyger”, despite its conjuration of sublime terror, ultimately views nature through the lens of artifice. The tiger is a piece of craft, significant for what it tells us about its anthropomorphic creator. The tiger is not itself; it’s not a wild, uncreated thing.

In contrast, the only crafted thing in Nael’s “The Tiger” is the cage, existing only as an impediment to freedom and destroyed as soon as it is introduced. Nature, rather than creation, is taken as fundamental, and with the destruction of the cage the boundary between the human observer and the natural world is eliminated. We cheer for the tiger’s destructive freedom in a moment of Dionysian ecstasy. Predatory, terrifying, alive, the tiger is out.

British catgirls be like ‘ewwo

snl won’t be funny tonight because they won’t mention how memes about how a gay angel from the show supernatural went to mega hell after he told a homophobe that he loved him were how thousands if not millions of people found out about the US election results and the news about putin possibly stepping down.

nvm yall he’s not a homophobe he’s just an aquarius !

2020 quote of the year

“he’s not a homophobe he’s just an aquarius !”

coulda just stopped at snl wont be funny

i understand that like, ppl recommending inferior free software as an alternative to other paid, more expansive ones, is kinda annoying. BUT. it is really important to like support free, open source tools. things that make art and creation more accessible. things like godot (game engine), krita (digital art), and open toonz (animation software) should be promoted.