#disability-disorder stuff

[castrel64]

it's okay to publish! regarding the post you reblogged, i wouldn't call it universal. there are certain things i really identified with as someone who has add and some things i just sort of shook my head at. i'm easily distractable by ideas, not so much things in the physical world. i build elaborate scenarios in my head but don't consider mechanics so much, for example. additionally: i also have discalculia so that might color my experiences a bit. it really is all about the right meds though.

yeah thats whats most interesting to me tho, like, i love hearing where things DONT match up alongside what things DO for individuals.  a bunch of us may be clumped up in the same disorder basket, but that doesnt mean we all experience life the same way, or even experience THAT disorder the same way!  thats were self-reporting and the use of things like metaphor and art are so interesting to me :D

[castrel64]

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"Spoonies" is one of those terms that… the in-group can use I guess but is offensive coming from outside, and some people with disabilities are really squicked by the term even if used by a disabled person. You’re in-group so whatever, just FYI.

i did not know that! :O thank you for the heads up!

[castrel64]

just fyi im personally avoiding talking about medication much bc i really know like NOTHING but im definitely interested in hearing ppls accounts.  i dont want to ruffle feathers by posting information that some people might take as endorsement of one method of medication or another tho!

medication itself is always interesting tho...in a group of disordered ppl there is always the inevitable medication horror-story time kinda like when ppl with glasses get together and trade prescriptions to see whos got it worst LMAO whoooo medicine

[castrel64]

I can testify that the ADHD thing is 100% accurate to my experiences like nothing I have read before, even tying in things I had never once considered to be related to the condition, but now it fits so well and makes so much sense. And you asked about publishing in your last post? Feel free to with this uwu. (Side note: I hated meds for a while too, and was convinced to go off them by an ex girlfriend. Recently I went on different ones, and they're actually hugely beneficial and as described)

ahhh yeah other people have said the same, so im glad that information is going around!  my sister and mother actually have add and in all honesty i show pretty strong symptoms of it sometimes, but ive never considered myself to have it bad enough to be disordered?  but yeah i was curious since i know so many people with it and i know SO MANY MORE PEOPLE who DONT actually know what it is. o_o

and im REALLY glad to hear about your meds!  im so glad theres something out there that will work for some people, since the accounts ive heard have all been pretty dismal e__e

[castrel64]

more talk

now im talking to envy (who has a neuromuscular disease) about how to talk about both mental disorder and physical disability at the same time and theres no real??? umbrella term for it?????

but like bless her being in my life because ive always been concerned with mental health type stuff but since becoming friends w her weve talked a TON about how we are both legitmately limited in our lives for very different reasons, but when we talk about the EXPERIENCES of these limitations, they often really overlap!

she says "spoonies" all the time tho which i really like if you know about spoon theory hahaha whoo