Just Stooshie

Writer. Editor. Scientist. Bibliophile. Lifter. Geek.

[maidenztearz]

neurotypicals who can control their thoughts please shut the fuck up

[the-archenlandian-court]

OCD isn’t always:

“If you don’t do the thing your family will die”

Sometimes it’s:

“If you don’t do the thing, bad things will happen”

“What bad things?”

“Bad things. Very bad things”

[existennialmemes]

Ok it's a matter of well established fact that Cats are Autistic,

but now I submit to you this incomplete list of equally Neurodivergent animals:

Dogs (ADHD)

Opossums (AuDHD)

Foxes (BPD)

Raccoons (PDA & OCD)

I will not absolutely elaborate

Dogs: Heavily affected by their emotional state, especially WRT perceived rejection. Difficulty switching tasks once they've become invested. Difficulty controlling where their focus goes, but Very Good at focusing.

Possums: Frequently misunderstood and misidentified by people who don't really know what they're looking at.

Foxes: Depicted as wily and unpredictable. Capable of great wisdom or great mischief. Often alone, but actually quite social for the right people.

Raccoons: Very invested in their rituals. Curious and capable, but not at your command. Often stereotyped as only caring about crime and cleanliness.

[hurthoney]

Cause it do be adding up 😒😒😒 ( It never does )

[scrimblospectrumdisorder]

me, moral ocd haver: wheee! the joys of life! *licks swirly lollipop*

The Guilt: we're gonna fucking Get you bro 😂😭😭🤣🤣🤣

[classic-heavy]

message to my fellow intrusive thoughts havers tonight:

thoughtcrime isn’t real, your intrusive thoughts aren’t a reflection of you, you’re not a bad person for having bad thoughts

[krisiverse]

ocd is the answer to the age old question no one ever asked, "what if your anxiety had autism"

[bl0w-m3]

Growing up undiagnosed really affects you.

Inside there will always be a little kid who didn’t understand why everybody was so mean to them.

[savemefrommymindpls]

[sammmmmiiiiii]

This has definitely been said before I feel it in my left kidney but

The reason we can't distinct what's symptoms of autism/or quite frankly any neurodiversity and what's effects of trauma is because society has not produced a single not-traumatized neurodivergent person.

[ndcultureis]

Neurodivergent culture is people constantly saying things along the lines of "it's such a shock that you've got all these disorders", meanwhile you've known for years and it was just that nobody listened to you.

[geekinator]

So my therapist explained to me the other day that when neurotypicals ask why something happens they don’t actually want to know why, they’re just throwing that out there as part of the discussion. I’m not gonna lie, I kind of sat there silently for a moment, computing. Eventually I told her that I was trying to absorb that piece of information because I like explaining and finding out why things happen, and for the life of me I can’t figure out why someone would ask why without wanting an answer. But honestly, my conversations with people make so much more sense.

[saturnsocoolioyep]

In the same vein as "I've been taking my medication for long enough that I haven't experienced any symptoms in a while, I must not need to take it anymore! (Spoiler alert: the meds are why you haven't had symptoms)" I present to you a similarly clownish thought process- "I haven't experienced that trigger in a long time, maybe I was just exaggerating how bad it was and it'll be fine to engage with this! (Spoiler alert: take a fucking guess babes)"

[madpunks]

i love you if you're mentally ill and/or neurodivergent and can't hide your symptoms. i love you if you tic, if you space out for long periods of time and lose track of conversations, if you react to hallucinations, if you laugh and talk out loud to yourself or to your system members, if you get scared and panic and have to react, if you run from perceived threats, if you get angry and irrational when something triggers your paranoia or trauma, if you can't help getting scared and dependent, if you have a low stress tolerance, if you have disorganized speech and word salad, if you stutter, if you can't control the volume of your voice. you are loved.

[snail-is-wired]

growing up neurodivergent is just.

"why are you doing that. its weird"

"the way you laugh is weird."

"the way you dress is weird"

"why does your face look like that?"

"why aren't you happy with my gift"

"why don't you talk more"

"why do you talk so much"

"you're annoying"

and then as an adult:

"why are you always worried about what people think of you?"

[thecorvidforest]

your intrusive thoughts don’t make you a bad person. your intrusive thoughts don’t reflect who you are. your intrusive thoughts aren’t secretly your beliefs. your intrusive thoughts won’t send you to hell. your intrusive thoughts are not your fault. your intrusive thoughts are a symptom. you are not a bad person for experiencing them.

[gay-otlc]

One of the more helpful analogies for OCD for me is to think of brains as inboxes and thoughts as emails.

For some people, intrusive thoughts get sent to their brain and your brain recognizes that they are bullshit. These emails get marked as spam before your brain can even read them. You barely know they're there. One or two slips by on occasion, and your brain reads those and it's upsetting, but it doesn't interfere with your life for the most part.

And then for other people, who have OCD or maybe another disorder that causes distressing intrusive thoughts, your brain decides to mark all these intrusive thoughts emails as important. Every single one that comes your way, your brain reads them and rereads them and rereads them and rereads them. Your brain types out a reply and then gets a response and it keeps going back and forth. You try to delete the emails but every time you do, you receive a hundred more. Your brain can't process important thoughts and you can't function. Your entire life now revolves around these emails. You can't escape.