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Oh boy, guess reacting to this is going to be my Hot Take of the Day because apparently I'm in a mood and also disagree with... pretty much all of this! 
https://twitter.com/KlNDOFABIGDEAL/status/1382036751536025606
https://twitter.com/KlNDOFABIGDEAL/status/1382036751536025606
First off, ADHD is still a heavily underrecognized and often misunderstood condition that deeply impacts the people who have it - many times in ways they have never even been taught to recognize.
pwADHD can feel isolated both from neurotypicals who don't understand them or their disorder and the rest of the neurodivergent community who all too often treats ADHD as if it is somehow less legitimate/debilitating/valid than other issues - rather like in this post.
Using The Crowded Room to try and say that other communities shouldn't be talking about their issues because the movie is more ~serious~ really isn't supporting either group of people or the issues they're facing.
The misrepresentation of DID is awful, painful and is absolutely going to increase stigmatization of the disorder. Believe me, I am well aware - but if it is the only thing on my TL until it comes out I am going to scream. It should not be a reason to silence other issues.
Raising awareness and talking about ADHD isn't something that will disadvantage other neurodivergent people? I get that ADHD isn't as societally stigmatized as other disorders, but that is a double-edged sword because it *is* very heavily minimized.
Also, the fact that disabled people are being denied disability benefits is a systematic issue so far removed from... people with ADHD talking about their disorder online that I don't even know where to begin with what a false equivalence fallacy that is.
Acting like you've seen "too much" discussion of a specific disorder on a list of either arbitrary or misguided measures is honestly just kind of a crappy thing to do.
On a separate topic - please stop trying to say that the term narcissistic abuse is inherently ableist or derogatory towards people with cluster B disorders. I absolutely think that we should criticize the concept that *any* disorder makes someone inherently abusive.
But the term does exist for a reason and does carry specific meaning - because narcissistic abuse is a specific kind of abuse and it causes a specific kind of trauma that the people who went through it should be able to talk about.
Policing the language of survivors isn't helpful and causes a lot more damage than the term itself. Personality orders are absolutely stigmatized, but denying that narcissistic abuse is real and that it happens isn't going to be what changes that.
And specifically claiming that a day of awareness for narcissistic abuse survivors is something that "cluster B is [having to] deal with" really, REALLY isn't the good look you think it is. / #mentalhealth #adhd #dissociatwt
#mentalhealth #adhd #dissociatwt
