An HBO documentary about Scientology, Going Clear, won’t be released in Britain. Neither will the book on which it’s based. That’s because British and U.S. free speech protections are very different.
funny how all the posts written by autistic people talking about autism acceptance and respect and understanding tend to get derailed by neurotypicals wailing that “autism is a burden for families i would love my child/sibling/cousin to be nooormal we need a cure cause our their life is sooo hard” as if that isnt exactly the kind of attitude that the actually autistic op was addressing
New PETA ad looks like two guys had a threesome with a chicken and she completely blew their minds.
“we must never speak of this”
I legitimately have no idea what this ad was otherwise trying to convey
like seriously I know that they’re utterly stupid in every way but what even the hell
“WE CAN’T FUCK, IT’S BACK”
“Just
just ask her to leave”
“SHE’S LOOKING RIGHT AT ME OH GOD SHE’S LOOKING RIGHT AT ME”
“I’m scared”
“Your scared?
I’M TERRIFIED RIGHT NOW”
“Just lay still
Maybe if it thinks we’re asleep it will leave”
It wouldn’t be a problem if that chicken was cooked.
Just saying.
One of the guys adopted a chicken and it’s gotten attached to him. it follows him everywhere which wasn’t a problem until they left the bedroom door open. They’re i nthe middle of foreplay when there’s a clucking sound and they look down to find the chicken at the end of the bed watching them.
They put their argument in itty bitty text down in the corner of the image. What the fuck kind of terrible advertising is that? It’s not like they can possibly think people are just going to nod and go “yeah, guess I’ll trade my bacon cheeseburger for a salad”.
Okay, so. A lot of the upcoming disorders in the Demystifying the DSM-V series can be misinterpreted or applied when someone doesn’t actually fulfill the criteria. So we need to have a quick discussion about what the criteria of a diagnosis are really looking at.
To do this, we gotta look at something called a ‘normal curve’.
Let’s pretend we took a survey of everyone in the world, asking them to rate their overall levels of happiness or sadness for the last month. We take every person’s happiness/sadness score and put it on a graph. It’d look something like this. (note – I’m highly, highly simplifying things)
It looks like this because, you know, most people aren’t super happy or super sad. For most people, the amount of happiness they feel is kinda balanced out by how much sadness they can also feel. That’s why there’s a big hump in the middle – this shows what is considered a normal range of happiness and sadness. Most people in the world fall inside that hump somewhere.
But even though there aren’t many people at the edges of the curve, there are still people who are extremely depressed, or happy to the point of manic. They are far enough to either extreme that they rarely, if ever, feel the opposite emotion.
Obviously, someone who’s just really happy doesn’t need to be hospitalized. But someone who’s manic can often be dangerous to themselves or others, and may require it. Someone who’s a little unhappy isn’t an emergency (though it sucks). Someone who’s extremely depressed, to the point that they are actively self-harming and about to attempt suicide, is an emergency.
Diagnosis is about finding the line between what’s within the normal range and what is considered extremely outside of the norm.
Some disorders are easier to see and diagnose than others – the lines between what is normal and extreme are very thick, metaphorically. It’s clear when someone is past the line, and thus diagnosible with a disorder.
For some disorders, a simple medical test virtually guarantees you a diagnosis, like certain sleep disorders. There are numbers on a page, generated while you sleep, and if you reach a certain number, you get diagnosed with a sleep disorder. The only clinical judgement made is knowing which number is the important one to look at.
Some disorders are essentially diagnosed via a survey, like depression. There’s almost no clinical judgement needed there. It’s pretty clear when someone’s struggling, and there aren’t lifelong consequences to being given a diagnosis. It’s not a complicated process, and it’s fairly easy to do.
But when you get to the disorders that have extreme, life-long consequences (and often carry a great deal of stigma), you need to make absolutely sure that you fulfill the criteria. For these disorders, you can’t always rely on your own interpretation of what checks the boxes in the DSM-V. You need to have someone objective, who knows what to look for, to make the call for sure. Most people don’t have the clinical judgement needed to make that call. It takes a lot of training and experience to get to that point. Hell, even the Shrink herself isn’t qualified to diagnose ANYONE with those kinds of disorders yet.
Please understand, I am not trying to invalidate people’s feelings or struggles here. I am not anti-self-diagnosis. I think self-diagnosis is a great starting point for recognizing one’s problems, and often the first step to getting much-needed treatment. You can absolutely accurately recognize traits of yourself that seem to fulfill the criteria, and these traits can absolutely cause you distress and make your life more difficult. I believe that you are suffering, and that you deserve to be taken seriously and given treatment. In fact, I believe that most of the time, your self diagnosis is likely correct.
I fully recognize that diagnosis is incredibly expensive, and full of hurdles that many people aren’t able to navigate their way through. We have an absolutely shitty, classist, ableist system in America, and it is the fucking worst. I also recognize that sometimes doctors or therapists are fucking idiots. If you are unhappy with what they say, try to get a second opinion if you can. I acknowledge that this is not possible for all people, even though in a perfect world, it would be.
I know this post is going to be controversial. I don’t want it to be. I repeat, I AM NOT AGAINST SELF-DIAGNOSIS.
But this blog is about helping people accurately portray mental illness in writing. I need to make sure that what I post will promote the accurate understanding of people with mental illness. Even if, out of 100 people, there’s 99 people who submit whose self-diagnosis is absolutely and completely true, if the remaining 1 person has inaccurately diagnosed themself, it would add to the misconceptions surrounding the mental illness in question.
I would prefer not to take that chance.
As such, I am going to request that in the future, people who submit their experiences have a professional diagnosis.
Thank you for understanding.
– Shrink
@scriptmedic….So…how does bipolar map onto this graph?
As I said before, the graph is highly simplified. It’s just a representation that diagnosis occurs on a spectrum, and that there are extremes.
If this were made for really diagnosing something, there’d be at least a dozen different constructs / graphs measured.
There’s just one thing I want to point out here as a bipolar person. It’s a hugely problematic misconception that “manic” is translated as “too happy”. Manic does not mean too happy. Manic is an extreme state of energy and/or anxiety. Some people get euphoric, but not all. When I get manic, happiness has nothing to do with it. I get extreme anxiety to the point of paranoia. I hallucinate, and have delusions about everyone around me being secret lizard people. I can’t sleep or stop fidgeting, But “happy” doesn’t happen at all, ever. I know this graph isn’t mean to actually show bipolar disorder, but since most of the people reading this blog are going to look at it without that full understanding, and since the post contains the phrase “happy to the point of manic”, it can perpetuate that misconception. So I’m just adding this: manic != happy. Our dearly missed Carrie Fisher once explained mania to a child as being “very very fast”, and I think that’s a much better way of thinking of it.
And I’m gonna make sure everyone else remembers too.
Why would they kill pit bulls they’re sweeties
Because PETA does not care about animals. they do not care that these dogs live and breathe and feel and want love like every other dog. they do not care about the history of human/dog bonding and co-evolution, they do not care that dogs and human beings have relied on each other for millennia, they do not care that its cruel and morally repugnant to put down an animal just because you can, they do not care about animals.
PETA cares about money and publicity, its a corporation run by a psychopath who is afraid of pitts as it states in the link: she was apparently bit by one, and now she hates them.
PETA doesn’t give a rats ass about animals. They just want to kill and make money off of idiots who fall of their spiel.
Some celebs support them
ah c’mon, dear-tumb1r, I think you’re being a bit harsh. I mean, okay, PETA’s done some questionable things, but it’s not like they’ve also
New PETA ad looks like two guys had a threesome with a chicken and she completely blew their minds.
“we must never speak of this”
I legitimately have no idea what this ad was otherwise trying to convey
like seriously I know that they’re utterly stupid in every way but what even the hell
looks to me like each of them thinks the other one brought the chicken and they’re trying to think how to say “that is a really disturbing kink and i’m upset you didn’t warn me” without being closed-minded
meanwhile the chicken just wandered in through an open window and found this nice place to lay an egg she doesn’t care she’s busy
i seldom care what peta has to say but in this case i legitimately can’t tell what their message is so i’m just going to go with “random chicken sitcom moment” and imagine all the wacky misunderstandings that occur as they both try to be okay with their boyfriend having super weird kinks, until their neighbor comes over to reclaim her chicken and they realize their sex life is actually kind of vanilla and now they’re a little disappointed
As much as Peta ever have a point, PETA’s point here is that meat and dairy clog up arteries including the penile artery – the idea is that neither of them can get it up because of eating meat.
I think he has a FAQ thing about it somewhere, but there’s not much to the thing. The accusations were started by a user called purrsphne, who’s vaguely in the social circles of a creepy serial abuser who actually does creep on underage kids (sadly, i think the user who posted the details renames occasionally, so i have no good links; used to be up at https://dirtyamporaconfessions.tumblr.com/post/145582320579/callout-post-for, I think?), and who has been reported by several former associates to actively pressure people to attack people he’s mad at.
Basically, what it comes down to is that roach has pointed out that many people are sexually active in their late teens, and this is not inherently a bad thing, and that you can’t necessarily tell by looking at someone how old they are. What healthy people usually do is at least enquire about age before pursuing a sexual relationship with someone who’s not reasonably obviously well over 20, and just not pursue it with people who aren’t actually old enough. But if you see a person hanging out at the beach, and they don’t have their ID with them, there’s no possible way for you to 100% reliably determine whether or not they’re over 18, which makes it ludicrous to assert that it’s “creepy” to be attracted to anyone under 18. It’s creepy to be attracted to them because they’re under 18, or because they look really young. But if you have a row of people who all look pretty similar, and secretly one of them’s 17 and the others are all 19, it’s ridiculous to expect people to say that all of them but that one are hot, and that one’s a kid how dare you even suggest such a thing.
I’ve seen zero evidence that roach has ever been even a tiny bit inappropriate towards kids, or would ever want to be. The actual problem is that roach is a popular and successful artist, and there’s a whole community of people who go around slagging popular artists, especially AFAB popular artists, in the hopes that if they can just wreck the lives of all the more-popular people, they’ll be more popular.
