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- Jan 12, 2016
The Spoon theory was originally a nice way for physically disabled people to explain that their energy was limited and how carefully they had to choose their day to day abilities in order to still function and have the energy for things like getting dressed or cooking dinner.
I sort of find it hilarious that tumblr, a place that screams bloody murder about appropriation and erasure, has no issues appropriating things from the disabled, the mentally ill, and the LGBT community and erasing them.
Tumblr used to be a great place for people with disabilities. It's what gravitated me to it. But now it's like they've completely lost all sight of what real ableism, real disabilities, real mental illnesses, disorders, etc. are. It also seems like they constantly latch onto a new diagnosis - first it was autism, then borderline personality disorder, now it's dissociation/depersonalization. I'm wondering what the next one will be.
I also love how so many of them list "psychosis" in their self-diagnosis lists. "Psychosis" is not a diagnosis in and of itself. It's not its own disorder. I may be wrong on this, but psychosis is a grouping of symptoms, that characterize a wide range of abnormal behaviour/thinking that is out of touch with reality. There are psychotic disorders, and some disorders that may feature psychotic symptoms. Every time I see someone just list "psychosis" I can't help but feel that even they know it would be outlandish and unbelievable to say they have like, Schizophrenia or Schizoaffective Disorder (with psychotic episodes) or something, since a psychotic episode would obviously come across, even in online text format (and especially offline).
It's too hard to fake, so voila, "psychosis". Now they can be edgy as well as blame their bizarre, shitty behaviour on being "psychotic", without actually having to suffer from a real psychotic disorder or episode, of course! Instead of just owning up to the fact their shitty behaviour is just shitty behaviour and completely irrelevant of their made-up psychosis.
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