Neurology Fuels Bigotry

but it doesn't have to.

We can stop the hate.

https://tube.xy-space.de/w/wXZLRkd49Z7FMNochhhw3C

#RespectYoungAdults #Neurology #teens #teenagers #rights #respect #YoungAdults #puberty #adolescence #Puritan #SexPhobic #Tradition #SexPhobia #StopTheHysteria #StopTheHate #brains #BrainDevelopment #SexualDevelopment #Evolution #Logic #Maladaptive #deficient #BodilyAutonomy #Agency #DeficientBrains #Undeveloped #FrontalLobe #PrefrontalCortex

A lot of #plurals are misdiagnosed with personality disorders because they show the symptoms of one or more personality disorders.

I know. That sounds weird. If you have the symptoms of a #disorder, surely you have the disorder, right?

That's true for a #singlet, but it's not true for a #plural

A personality disorder is #pervasive by definition. This means that it permeates throughout the person's life and colors every #experience that they have. Every single one.

That means that for a #system to be accurately diagnosed with a personality disorder, all of that system must have the personality disorder. Not one #headmate. Not two. All of them.

By way of example, consider a plural system with a #protector/#persecutor, a headmate who exists to protect the system, but that often also harms the system in the #maladaptive way that it chooses to protect the system. This protector/persecutor could be an #introject of that system's external abuser, thereby continuing that individual's abuse on the system long after that individual is gone from the system's life.

That protector/persecutor might easily receive a #diagnosis of #Borderline, #Narcissistic, or #Antisocial Personality Disorder. But often the protector/persecutor is also unique among its headmates. The #BPD, #NPD, or #APD diagnosis may be completely wrong for the other members of the system, and certainly for the host (if there is one), who may be the victim of the protector/persecutor's #abuse more often than not.

This means that the diagnosis of a personality disorder is wholly inaccurate. The personality disorder has not pervaded the system, and it therefore cannot be called a personality disorder. And if even one #headmate is capable of insight into the #abusive protector/persecutor, then that system's #prognosis is likely to be significantly better than that of a person who has been accurately diagnosed with a personality disorder.

In short, for a system to be correctly diagnosed as having a personality disorder, all of that systems headmates must share the symptoms of the disorder. If they do not, they do not have a personality disorder.

I hope this has been helpful!

#mentalHealth #dissociativeDisorders #DID #OSDD #personalityDisorders

Sometimes I watch videos like this, and I feel stupid as fuck for having been convinced for so long that my last #abuser was a good person (and that, consequently, I was a bad one).

When I think back to the recent conversations about #narcissism, where #narcissists and their #enablers attempted to convince me (at first with arguments and then with insults) that narcissism is a #neurotype, I can see these same patterns replaying themselves.

They will literally convince well-meaning folks that they're trustworthy, and after that, it becomes an easy task to convince others (especially other #neurodiverse folks familiar with the #abuse that comes from having your mental processes stigmatized), that their mental illness is just "who they are" and that they ought to be accepted as they are.

Accepting others as they are is ostensibly a good thing. But when what they want you to accept is #abusive #behavior, that's just #gaslighting. There is no #socialJustice in that. It is, at best, a perversion of social justice. At worst, it's directly harmful to #survivors of #narcissistic abuse.

Narcissism isn't who anyone is. It's a #maladaptive #coping #strategy that can't be tolerated. Without #change, what you have is a person who does harm to those around them, even if they don't mean to. And "not meaning to cause harm" is still causing harm. If someone can't help but cause you harm, that's objectively bad, and I can only see a narcissist being able to rationalize it to be otherwise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw6rym2o_Vs