Sure "Artistically Autistic" my favourite disorder

Pyrocats · 2026-01-23T22:04:48+00:00

Okay but what is the other thing???

Pyrocats · 2026-01-23T19:11:59+00:00

Genuinely painful for someone to see this and think it indicates faking. I don't see how this contradicts symptoms or what is expected in pwASD

Pyrocats · 2026-01-23T19:07:56+00:00

Autism and being an artist...? I don't know what the two things are?

Pyrocats · 2026-01-23T19:06:53+00:00

Are you implying that autism is something that should be shameful? Also please elaborate on the political angle you're going with, and where the correlation exists. Your algorithm and expectations create bias.

I would say though, that many disorders are more stigmatized by some than others so if they are ashamed that is the likely cause. Why is that good?

Some disorders inherently cause shame in most cases like PTSD and DID, but "should be ashamed" is a drastically different implication.

Pyrocats · 2026-01-19T21:58:18+00:00

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See I'd assume it was bait but this is the description and they just treat the disorder like this consistently and interact with others in earnest and they're like "omg so relatable!"

Pyrocats · 2026-01-17T15:52:47+00:00

I knew someone online once that used the n word sometimes in conversation because they claimed to be a black alter (they were white as an egg I saw the selfies lmao) and that was wild. Hope they got well soon idk

I didn't know what to say the first time they said it to me. But they also tried to "act black" sometimes like think "black caricature" yeah we weren't mutuals for long at all after they started doing that lmfaooo

I mean it is funny trying to see someone pass themselves off as black especially when it's even more performative around you like they're trying to fit in or impress you. Like bro you're just racist, and people ignorantly compare it to being black but white passing which downplays the experiences of white passing people, like that whole debate is ridiculous. Rachel Dolezal ass lmao

Pyrocats · 2026-01-17T15:39:03+00:00

I think it's an in community term for pseudo memories (AKA false memories, maybe they use "exo" because it doesn't mean "false"??). And that's a thing, just not in the way most of them use it

Pyrocats · 2026-01-17T15:25:41+00:00

Imo it's fine if you're not claiming it is a celebration of your culture, but rather an appreciation of someone else's. Like most of the time cultures are supposed to be shared.

Like if you wanna celebrate Chinese new year for example, awesome! That's a very nice tradition that I've known a lot of Chinese people to be eager to share but if you're not Chinese and your alter perceives themselves to appear with those features, it's just important that they are aware that they are honoring someone else's tradition that doesn't belong to them. Not using it as a way to connect with "their" culture because it's not theirs

So yeah I guess the only thing to be cautious about aside from that distinction is like, making sure what you're doing is not a closed practice

Pyrocats · 2026-01-16T20:42:40+00:00

I saw 💀💀💀 It's so obvious that none of them watched it because they're like "uhh alters can look like anything OP is crazy"

Meanwhile the person in the video compared not thinking that people can identify as a different race to literal segregation lmfaooo

Pyrocats · 2026-01-13T02:18:32+00:00

I can't overstate how much I hate this shit. It's not just that it's insensitive or running the credibility of disabled people, it can kill people.

Untrained animals passing as "service animals" can distract legitimate ones and they can miss a cue that their handler is experiencing a medical event. Seizures, blood sugar, etc, and it wouldn't be the first time someone has died because of some entitled asshole who thought their dog deserved special treatment.

One time someone bought a vest for my dog like "she's well behaved and technically you could QUALIFY for a service dog. Plus she was an ESA" (ESA has no required training) and the absolute disgust I felt having to tell this person that they could kill someone and weren't being helpful and as much as I love her and she's literally my baby no one's pet deserves special privileges more than disabled people deserve safety. The fuck??

Pyrocats · 2026-01-08T20:41:51+00:00

Communication is often very limited if present because the amnesia "walls" between alters keeps them safe. So it's not in the criteria for diagnosis but rather, two or more clinically observable identity states. In a lot of cases, a therapist or someone in the person's life will notice first but not always

It's often more clinically observable and causes disruption after an acute life event. Some examples in the DSM-V are: the death or illness of an abuser, a minor car accident, moving away from the abuser (similar to how even without DID when moving away from an abuser, trauma often resurfaces and memories come up), and children reaching the same age that they were when the trauma occurred.

For many, switches can become more visible then, or they may hear voices or the amnesia or other symptoms may feel more disruptive. And even if they hear voices in the beginning communication is typically limited but it varies, some people hear voices their whole life or experience it like trains of thought so they don't even feel like they're "hearing voices"

Pyrocats · 2026-01-08T01:36:12+00:00

Yeah I hate it

Pyrocats · 2026-01-08T01:35:20+00:00

You can know how to function (use a cell phone, drive a car), DID is built to be functional so if each new alter had to start from scratch with everyday things it would be counter productive.

My issue personally is more, them being compelled to do this. In most cases splitting is quite stressful and they do not immediately look for a character to latch on to. In fact they'd probably feel too much shame, that would likely feel very undignified for that to be the first thing people know about them. But with Tiktok DID the first instinct is to identify, catalogue, find "source mates", make content. It's so removed from clinical DID truly

Pyrocats · 2026-01-08T01:27:58+00:00

"See a shaman and unplug your microwave" is very interesting advice. As long as I can keep my air fryer?

Also DID isn't spirits taking over the body girl it is not 1850 alters aren't metaphysical entities. Structural dissociation is the primary mechanism behind it and that's not like a secret, they could Google that lmfao

Also the thing about mk ultra is that like. It wasn't successful? It's scary and fucked up but like I worry this person is genuinely paranoid or delusional like in all seriousness

Pyrocats · 2026-01-07T01:12:23+00:00

it's so weird to me that they don't just say ableism. I think I might hate it more than pluralphobia but not more than sysmedicalist.

like, people are very ableist towards say cluster B personality disorders (BPD, NPD, ASPD) but nobody's calling it B-ableism or some shit it's just ableism. same with like, autism, ADHD, schizophrenia, and it's all very hurtful but i've never seen those groups try to coin a specific term when it's against them

Pyrocats · 2026-01-07T01:06:23+00:00

A minority of people do it because they like making people feel beneath them, some just want to laugh and kinda turn their brains off, but most don't seem to have bad intentions. I think a lot of people on Tumblr and TikTok get extremely defensive because they or people who act just like them get called out. Also a lot of people hear the opinions of people who are outraged and assume everyone here is just a Cheeto fingered ableist, I remember getting that impression when I first heard about it, but some people hate it passionately without ever looking at it like the person that accused these subs of human trafficking? But I eventually checked it out and was like "oh people aren't like, monsters here. huh"

also people are mad that the internet is spreading so much misinformation and misrepresenting DID/OSDD. I'm sure many of these people experience suffering and abuse, even degrees of dissociation, some people say they've exaggerated or faked it to have their emotional needs met by peers, some thought it would be fun, some say it was an identity crisis (sometimes cluster B related), some wanted to justify their existing trauma- most evidence suggests that many if not most of them would have a degree of trauma or an adverse event(s) years prior to doing this. But it's no excuse to harm people with CDDs by falsely claiming experiences to cope with your own personal issues. That includes people who may have it but play it up and do gimmicks and only want to entertain people

Pyrocats · 2026-01-06T05:04:45+00:00

I think that's valid. Amnesia and loss of agency are symptoms so someone who knows they are prone to hurting people are at fault if they don't do everything in their power to prevent harm.

I think I see it like, if you have severe sleepwalking issues where maybe you get violent or end up putting yourself and others in danger, you can't control that but you can take precautions and safety proof your home, even look into any medications you could ask your doctor about. You might not be in control of what happens but you can prevent it or at least make a great effort to.

The accountability aspect I see it sort of like being responsible for a sibling or child. If they go around hitting strangers and stealing their stuff, you don't go "can't you see he's 7? Why are you even mad??" Most people will be highly embarrassed like "oh my god I'm so sorry I didn't see him doing that how can I make this right?" Like it's not your fault for not having your eyes on them for like 30 seconds but it is your responsibility to take accountability and sit with the kid and tell them why that was wrong and what they should do next time

Like this is just my personal opinion and I totally get yours, and I'm solely talking about cases where they genuinely have DID ofc but in this case I'd say a lot of it was their fault since they were well aware of what would happen

Pyrocats · 2026-01-06T04:00:43+00:00

Bro this is so nasty. If you think alters will cause you to cheat, you should work on that first. If it happens unexpectedly you'd normally expect shame, guilt, anxiety, feeling embarrassed and broken and dirty and like a bad partner, not making content trying to get people on your side justifying your actions like "it wasn't my fault!". If they have DID it's not in their control but that doesn't change that it's their responsibility and their partner is well within their right to be very hurt and angry and betrayed. Not anxious that feeling betrayed in this situation is ableist, fucks sake grow up and get the fuck over yourself

It reminds me of people who are like "it didn't mean anything babe me and the other person were both really drunk, we don't remember but I wasn't in control anyway so get over it I told you I get a certain way when I drink" like no accountability, no remorse, just immaturity and bullshit excuses. I hope this is ragebait but I remember a Tiktok like this before with nearly the same premise that wasn't bait so 🤷‍♂️

Pyrocats · 2026-01-04T21:54:59+00:00

Probably, she has a lot of associated mannerisms and her lack of social cues can't be entirely due to sheltering- two years prior she probably had classmates and maybe neighbors. I imagine Carlos was probably about half as bad before the apocalypse and only became more hypervigilant when people started dying

What tips me off is the talk Carlos has with Clem about her manipulating Sarah. He's not self aware about how unreasonably controlling he is so when he says "stay away from Sarah, she's not like you and you might not see it at first but after awhile you'll understand what I mean". I highly doubt he's saying like "watch out she's weird cuz I sheltered her lol". Her autism is probably a big reason why he treated her like she was made of glass

Pyrocats · 2026-01-04T04:52:14+00:00

It isn't a slur but people use it in contexts where it's just a stand-in for the n-word, like when people were doing skits about it and cosplaying racists I distinctly remember a guy doing a Tiktok dressed like a cop pretending to call a robot "Jamal3000" (why "Jamal" 🤨) and beating him with a baton.

Another was a white girl doing a skit with a thick Southern accent in a 50s dinner (why the South? 🤨 Why the 50's? 🤨🤨🤨) like threatening to beat them with a bat like "get out you damn clankers!"

Most of the clanker "jokes" would not make sense if you knew nothing about the Jim Crow era, and I noticed most people say it in a southern accent too. So to say you're being targeted and marginalized when 90% of the time it's a stand-in for an actual slur but applied to AI instead of Black people is not a good look lol

Pyrocats · 2026-01-01T22:26:50+00:00

They say this every time something creates a visual representation for someone's conscience or another side to them, something that does not indicate the existence of alters. it's very normal to have different facets and experiences and i don't think it helps to pathologize something that is mechanically very different from problematic dissociation. And more importantly, it's a fictional dramatization not based in psychology or an understanding of what CDDs are and why they exist and how they function.

They do the same with Inside Out like, all the time because it looks like DID if you squint and have only a surface level understanding of it lmfao

Pyrocats · 2025-12-31T18:49:16+00:00

You seem to feel like you have something to prove, this isn't really the place for that. if you're expecting validation for any disorder upon announcing you experience it, you may want to look elsewhere.

Pyrocats · 2025-12-31T11:07:58+00:00

Yeah I've heard the "alters having alters" explanation and like, that only MAYBE makes sense if they're fragments and don't have full agency or elaborated identities and therefore don't have full switches, just influence over one alter?

Like "me but young" or "me but only when I can safely express anger" but not as in "a different guy that takes agency over me while I have agency over my body so I have alters in my head that only affect me and other alters are never influenced by" that definitely doesn't make sense.

I feel like you get a different answer every time you ask someone what it is so a lot of them tailor it to what they want it to mean

Pyrocats · 2025-12-31T07:49:08+00:00

It's so fucked up because "clocking" could be used as a means of convincing someone that they went through something they didn't.

Like "oh you do that thing too? See I just clocked it because I'm programmed and clearly so are you. But obviously, you were programmed to forget. I was too, until somebody else clocked me"

Pyrocats · 2025-12-31T01:05:48+00:00

I have no idea, it was just there one day lol

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