Angry Activist Al

I'm Al and I am a queer and disabled behavioral therapist. I post about caring for your mental and physical health, and loving yourself through your problems.

[eccentric-zebra]

[charlottearthistory]

‘on the heights’ - charles courtney curran (1909)

[spooniestrong]

[fibrofox]

[positiveautistic-deactivated202]

Your disabled body is beautiful

[friendlyneighbourhoodpapergay]

Yet another reminder that faking is a conscious choice that you make.

It is not something you can do accidentally, regards of what you're talking about.

You can't accidentally fake depression, or anxiety, or bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia, or any other mental illness.

You can't accidentally fake Borderline Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder, personality disorders.

You can't accidentally fake ADHD, autism, Tourette's Syndrome, auditory processing disorder, aphasia or any other neurodivergence

You can't accidentally fake being trans or ace-spec or aro-spec or any other LGBTQIA+ identity.

You can't accidentally fake chronic illnesses like CFS, fibromyalgia or any chronic illness.

You also can't accidentally fake being good/intelligent at something. You didn't fool your peers into reaching your position.

You can't accidentally fake trauma, PTSD/cPTSD, DID/OSDD/DDNOS or any other trauma-based disorder.

Tldr:

Faking is a conscious choice.

You cannot do it by accident.

If you are worried that you are faking, that in itself is proof that you are not.

[unlikelykingdomphilosopher]

[gahdamnpunk]

Beautiful.

[vawal-ove]

[apxlllo]

chronically ill person: i need help managing my illness and its symptoms bc im really struggling here

doctor: have you tried exercising, eating fruit and losing weight?

chronically ill person:

[postitforward]

Freedom will never come unless it is inclusive!

[theprideful-deactivated20251201]

having multiple disorders with a lot of overlap is just like, trying to untangle a really big ball of string. you have no idea if it's only one string or multiple strings wrapped up, you don't know where any of them start or end, and after a while it all starts to look the same. it's a big jumbled mess and it's exhausting, but you try to sort them out anyway because they're no good to you tied up.

[fablefire]

Apparently this one is super hard to learn. Maybe I need a TM... 🤔

[howtobeapersonwithfibro]

Taking medications that help you is good. Using mobility aids or other assistive devices that help you is good. Respecting your own limits to maintain your health is good.

Be proud of yourself for taking the steps you need to take care of yourself, and ignore anyone who doesn't understand the importance of this.

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

If you're mentally ill, chronically ill or otherwise disabled, do yourself a favor and consciously work to dismantle the "if you're too sick to go to work you're also too sick to be on the computer" mindset which got drilled into most of us during childhood. You don't have to deny yourself joy. You don't have to directly or indirectly punish yourself for not being able to do certain things. It doesn't help anyone. All it does is make you even more miserable than you have to be. So make sure you don't punish yourself for being sick. Make sure you don't subconsciously sabotage yourself with the idea that you have to be punished for not being abled. Make sure you embrace the joy you can find instead of denying yourself out of unnecessary guilt.

[disabledprincesses]

There are no rules on when to be productive.

If you cannot function in the morning

You can do your work, homework, chores, etc. at 3am

You can go grocery shopping at 11:29pm on a thursday

You can shower, make your bed, brush your teeth at 3pm

You can write an essay in your bed at 9pm and go to bed at 1am

Don't force yourself to wake up at 5am to be productive and then think the day's ruined when you wake at noon

Doing something in a weird way is still doing something

[vawal-ove]

Your mental health matters. Today at 3 p.m. EST, I’m taking a break in honor of #NationalMentalHealthBreak. Join me and listen to a meditation in @theshineapp.