Sick and Tired of BeingSick and Tired

dani/transmasculine. he/him/Spoonie, Cripple Punk, Guitarist, Poet, Black and Proud, POTS, Narcolespy,FIbromaylagia, possibly lymes. Neurodivergent as fuck

[prokopetz]

What y’all think ‘gifted child’ discourse is saying: I used to be special and now I’m not and that makes me sad.

What ‘gifted child’ discourse is ACTUALLY saying: The way many educational systems treat children who’ve been identified as ‘gifted’ is actively harmful in that it a. obliges kids to give up socialising with their same-age peers in favour of constantly courting the approval of adult ‘mentors’ who mostly don’t give a shit about them, b. demands that they tie their entire identity to a set of standards that’s not merely unsustainable, but intentionally so, because its unstated purpose is to weed out the ‘unworthy’ rather than to provide useful goals for self-improvement, and c. denies them opportunities to learn useful life skills in favour of training them up in an excruciatingly narrow academic skill-set that’s basically useless outside of an institutional career path that the vast majority of them will never be allowed to pursue.

[pusheen]

[fuks]

[salty-red-mage]

[hanitje]

A lot of people already condemn and calling this teacher a bitch/monster on the comment/reblog, not knowing the whole story. It was actually the TEACHER who drew the beautiful art on the blackboard, and the teacher is a HE, he’s an accomplished artist who was trying to teach his students about the beauty of art and however changing it is. He will draw any arts by request from his students, the students will take some pictures, and then he erases it from the board, and make new ones. He’s not a monster. He’s actually trying to spark the students’ interest in art. Funny how a simple pic without context enrages people - and the people refusing to look beyond the story.

You can follow his artworks on Twitter @hamacream where he always posts/tweet his arts.

Here are some samples of his artwork:

[jessadamsdraws]

It’s awsome I wish I had a teacher like that

[helthehatter]

Thank you for the context I feel much better now.

[rottenbutrecovering]

A post on splitting

Splitting is the term used to describe when someone with BPD’s view of something shifts from one extreme to another. For example from obsessional love to all encompassing hate. 

Others sometimes call it ‘swinging’ but most use that to describe mood swings specifically.

The term is currently considered to be specific to only those with BPD/(B)PD traits.

This stems from the section in the diagnostic criteria of BPD that refers to ‘black and white thinking’ or 'all or nothing’. It also links to frequent and extreme mood swings common of BPD. 

Splitting is regarded as a coping mechanism in regards to fear of abandonment caused by BPD. Eg 'if I hate you it won’t hurt if you leave' 

Those with BPD say they’ve 'split on X’ something to say when they’ve had this shift of views in regards to X thing. 

Those with BPD say they’re 'splitting’ to say that they are currently experiencing a shift in views. 

Most people use ‘split’ to describe when they shift from love to hate of something, but splitting is also accurate to describe shift from hate to love. Typically when someone with people says “I’ve split/am splitting on X” it means they currently have extreme hate/anger towards X. 

Someone with BPD can split on people, objects, ideas, concepts and on themselves- they can split on anything. 

Not all those with BPD split. 

Splitting is very difficult to control and very often the person isn’t aware they are splitting. 

Splitting can occur for many reasons, and to those without BPD the reasons can appear trivial but it’s important to remember that to those with BPD these experiences are very real and often very distressing.

[bpdlavender]

so you split on your fp... now what?

I made this simple help sheet for what steps to take when splitting! I hope it helps at least someone out there.

[ruthgoth-deactivated20160116]

[44bugs]

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[leekqueen39]

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[44bugs]

Hey vocalold38,

Suck my pumpkin flavored dick!

[goodsprings]

the lgtb (let’s get this bread) community

[autismtypes]

Autism Type #797

Lightly toasted autism with a sprinkling of autism, and an autistic drizzle on the side. 

[autismtypes]

Autism Type #803

High-functioning Autism? Yep, this autism is really functioning, autism like a well oiled autistic machine.

[rosered3-deactivated20240912]

You know when you lay down, then wanna lay down MORE…

[thefibrodiaries]

after finally getting diagnosed with the condition that you knew you had this whole time:

[chronologicallyfuckedup]

Like that’ll ever happen again. It’s been so long, I don’t remember what that feels like.

[ladysparklefists]

let’s make this a thing! I have CFS/ME and a bunch of overlapping symptoms with EDS, fibro, endo, etc, most people don’t Get it but we get one another’s diseases cause we know what it’s like #PhoenixDiseases

Transcript of tweets:

Jennifer Brea (twitter user jenbrea): If you were going to frame an umbrella term to comprise related diseases like ME, EDS, fibro, MCAS, POTS, endo (and others), what would you call it? (36 retweets, 179 likes)

Jennifer Brea:  Note: I’m not talking about a scientific umbrella. We don’t yet know enough to say that there’s an underlying biological relationship and if there is, between which diagnoses, and for what reasons.

Jennifer Brea:  We just know that these conditions tend to flock together, whether for scientific reasons or social ones (e.g., diagnostic uncertainty).

Emer Emily Neenan (twitter user e3neenan):  Phoenix Diseases, because they’re characterised by flares, we’re constantly rising from the ashes, and people think they’re not real! 🔥

Jennifer Brea: Nice!

[dysmorphicmind]

Fibromyalgia

[thefibrodiaries]

me trying to explain all my symptoms and conditions like;

[softanddisabled]

one of the most annoying things about having chronic pain for me is that everyone just assumes I’m not in pain anymore because I took painkillers or that my painkillers should help me and make me not be in pain anymore at all and if they aren’t “working” I shouldn’t take them

like my meds barely help me from a abled persons point of view, they help me enough to be able to go to the bathroom (this is with my mobility aid) but that’s still a lot for me and its a difference between being bedbound and literally not being able to move to being able to function at least a little (even if it’s just crawling to the bathroom or be on my phone or eat/drink)

I can’t tell you how many times my mom has told me “if the meds don’t help you why do you even take them??” because apparently meds cure everything and should help you at least 50%??