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@LabyrinthADHD

I am a third-year psychology student. I also work as a consultant for my university. I'm disabled 'n stuff.

In the middle 가입일 Nisan 2023
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LabyrinthMind
LabyrinthMind@LabyrinthADHD·
@DrMBotha So what this says to me is that it does not matter if things are observable or not. They'll still find a way to turn it into something it isn't, or to rewrite your own experiences. I have a communication disorder but they always go on and on about how "articulate" I am, etc.
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LabyrinthMind
LabyrinthMind@LabyrinthADHD·
@DrMBotha I would also add that even in women who can't mask (I am like this), the way that professionals observed my various traits/symptoms was always either rationalised or minimised. It wasn't a "meltdown", it was "manipulation. Likewise, sadness is always recorded as "fustration".
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Monique Botha is actually they/them 🤷🏻‍♀️
Monique Botha is actually they/them 🤷🏻‍♀️@DrMBotha·
This just pathologizes women’s internal experiences (e.g., hysteria, emotionality) rather than recognising differential access, diagnostic bias. systemic issues Second, it suggests that “masking” enables entry into services by shifting autism away from observable traits
sami timimi@stimimi

‘Masking’ provided the necessary link to open autism to the main adult mental health customer base – women. The observational element used in diagnosis more or less disappears and we are left with ruminations on an internal state born out of a ‘who am I’ introspection.

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LabyrinthMind
LabyrinthMind@LabyrinthADHD·
@AliArthPainter If I were to do a psychology essay based on investigating this idea, I think it would be very easy for me to argue in favour of it, that's for sure. It'd be harder arguing that there isn't some sort of neurological difference or adaption. Neuroscience is super cool.
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Alicia Painter 🫒 (they/them)
Alicia Painter 🫒 (they/them)@AliArthPainter·
For people have been blind from birth or young age, the brain adapts to understand the world without with reduced or no sight. Their brains operate differently from the norm so can they be considered neurodivergent?
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LabyrinthMind
LabyrinthMind@LabyrinthADHD·
@DrMBotha The face I made when I saw my psychology module materials cite him for something 😭😭
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Monique Botha is actually they/them 🤷🏻‍♀️
Monique Botha is actually they/them 🤷🏻‍♀️@DrMBotha·
I love that days ago Sami was like "why are things to inflammatory? 🤔" And then proceeds to tweet inflammatory things about autistic adults repeatedly. Like babe, the call is coming from inside the house.
sami timimi@stimimi

In the UK there was a 787% increase in recorded incidence of autism diagnoses between 1998 and 2018, with the increase in diagnoses being greater for females than males and with the greatest rises among adults. What do you think has happened to these rates since then?

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LabyrinthMind
LabyrinthMind@LabyrinthADHD·
@sparry951 @WestminsterWAG The bit of PIP I get might cover some of the water bill, a contribution towards rent, or some of the electric bill, but it won't cover: rent, food, electric, water, coucil tax, car, and so on. It barely covers taxis/bus to my hospital appointments + blood tests lol 🙃
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LabyrinthMind
LabyrinthMind@LabyrinthADHD·
@sparry951 @WestminsterWAG I'm like you: disabled and working, and I can't claim UC because my partner (non-disabled) earns too much for me to be eligible. They count us both as being one person. I work a precarious, part time, zero hours job with no prospect of it becoming a stable/permanent role 🫠
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Sarah Vine@WestminsterWAG·
If you are on benefits you don’t pay your own bills anyway. The taxpayer does. So this is all just performative nonsense. mol.im/a/15677235
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LabyrinthMind
LabyrinthMind@LabyrinthADHD·
@paullees496 @RachelCDailey_ They could just write a prompt like: "We are a UK government department looking to make savings in the social security (welfare) budget, so that only the most deserving get that support. Looking at the evidence provided, how could we do that while making it seem kind?" lol
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LabyrinthMind
LabyrinthMind@LabyrinthADHD·
@DrMBotha @draevans The hours totally vanished one day when I argued about this being unfair and that they should employ me. They dangled the possibility of a job in front of me like a carrot and made me believe that if I just kept at it, it'd all work out. I don't volunteer now.
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LabyrinthMind@LabyrinthADHD·
@DrMBotha @draevans By the end of my time there I was basically a zero hours contract lecturer who had a speciality in MH stigma, lol. I was doing (unpaid) lesson plans for paid academics, and doing over half of their tutorials for them. I helped in research ethics and research participation.
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Monique Botha is actually they/them 🤷🏻‍♀️
Monique Botha is actually they/them 🤷🏻‍♀️@DrMBotha·
Good enough for a nine month work for free scheme, not good enough for a job and the council has the nerve to say "we're an equitable employer". Meanwhile the DWP will gut disabled people benefits because we're the problem and not society.
Recovery in the Bin@RITB_

Young disabled man dreams of being a bin man, completes a 9 month internship, the council turn down his application twice independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

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LabyrinthMind@LabyrinthADHD·
@RachelCDailey_ @anonoccu1 Reach are so bad that they are the only chain of "papers" I've seen come with a health warning from a DPO - and we live in the timeline where The Sun/Mail exist... YEAH
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LabyrinthMind
LabyrinthMind@LabyrinthADHD·
@jaunty_aphorism 💯 "Why do we suddenly have increased incidents of X all a sudden???" Asks the confused and bewildered right wing journalist. While simultaneously ignoring the state of the health system, society, poverty and the planet. It's a mystery.
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Wren
Wren@jaunty_aphorism·
@LabyrinthADHD Cancer is increasing globally, particularly in young people. I've never seen the gov questioning those figures by saying cancer is overdiagnosed - MH is just an easy target bc its already stigmatised & they conflate "negative emotions" with mental illness to discredit it further.
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Wren
Wren@jaunty_aphorism·
Can't stop thinking about this. What he's saying is that mental illness *needs* stigma, in order for ppl to seek treatment. That the "good stigma" is now gone. Who advocates for stigma??? People heavily identify with being cancer patients & survivors. Should we stigmatise cancer?
Jan Jekielek@JanJekielek

“What’s happening now is the mental illness is becoming valorized.” Developmental psychologist J.D. Haltigan says mental illness is increasingly being turned into an identity people embrace. “Mental illness as identity is really something that is coming on.” “I have a disorder, I am defined by that disorder, and I’m some sort of a heroic person for having this disorder.” “It’s really happening across the disorders… mostly for depression and anxiety.” “It’s become so destigmatized that there is no stigma.” “You see this a lot on social media… if you claim you have a mood disorder, you get a lot of affirmation for that.” “That feeds back into it… and you get into this sort of niche group that valorizes it and affirms it.” “That’s not really helpful treatment to eliminate the disorder.” @jdhaltigan

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LabyrinthMind@LabyrinthADHD·
@VirgilMSW @RITB_ @DBDouble @Keirwales So I told her that without evidence, I wasn't going to agree with her opinion, and she got mad at me because I'm a psychology student and was "using my knowledge to play games". I just wanted any evidence of anything, lol. A vague pattern, even. Nope.
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LabyrinthMind
LabyrinthMind@LabyrinthADHD·
@VirgilMSW @RITB_ @DBDouble @Keirwales She sprung this on me during an autism assessment, and spent time at the end trying to convince me "you can have both!" and refusing to tell me any PD symptom or behaviour I allegedly had displayed. I said I'd listen to her if she could show me what I said or did. She couldn't.
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Keir Harding
Keir Harding@Keirwales·
I often have people telling me that a personality disorder doesn’t mean a disordered personality I’ve currently got a feed full of Drs literally telling me a disordered personality isn’t a bad thing Apparently good clinicians can help people see their grasp of English is wrong
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LabyrinthMind@LabyrinthADHD·
@jaunty_aphorism I also think that for some people, they are ill at ease with the idea of someone having to be understood. They view it as unfair. If they think someone "gets attention" for being ill, they get envious. They start to think: "I coped when X was bad", "attention seeker", "cheater".
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LabyrinthMind
LabyrinthMind@LabyrinthADHD·
@jaunty_aphorism The UK government advocate for stigma, IMO, with all their talk of "overdiagnosis" and the "reviews" into such. I think they want us to identify as "workers", and have that as our true/only identity. Acceptance with a disabled/ill identity threatens that goal.
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LabyrinthMind
LabyrinthMind@LabyrinthADHD·
@RITB_ I'm also thinking that if you can do it via email, you bypass that harsh 600 word limit that the response boxes force you in to. I wasn't sure if there was a way to avoid that. I've not had the time to deeply look into this, just skim it.
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Recovery in the Bin
Recovery in the Bin@RITB_·
Do the consultation by email rather than online form (makes it easier for them to dismiss by AI) gov.uk/government/new… "How PIP can remain within fixed financial limits" - means tested?
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LabyrinthMind@LabyrinthADHD·
@de_varse I also need jobs to be part time and largely unmanaged. I'll get the work done to the deadlines required, but I need a job where it's ok if I crash out in the middle of the day. I also got lucky with that, and so I've been able to keep this job for 2 years. Thats a record.
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LabyrinthMind
LabyrinthMind@LabyrinthADHD·
@de_varse It's also the nature of the job that can enable or prevent me from working. I need a job that is 100% WFH. Not hybrid. Just WFH. I have a job like that atm, but it's precarious and my contract ends in April. Finding another WFH job is so far impossible 😭
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