One Of The Least Helpful Things Ive Been Told As A Neurodivergent Person Is “don’t Half Ass Things”

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I am a professional at misreading tone and overreacting to problems that most likely don’t even exist

some positive doodles for my fellow psychotics

could be paranoia-inducing i think so please tag accordingly!

Changed to: things harder than voting.

Video: President Obama Demonstrates 5 Things That Are Harder Than Registering to Vote

This broke my heart and made me cry 💔

This Comedian Nails Why The Mental Illness + Creativity Connection is Ridiculous

Why does this still has to be a part of our life?

STPD summarized

StPD, or Schizotypal Personality Disorder, is a Cluster-A personality disorder.

The symptoms of STPD are as follows:

-Ideas of reference -Odd beliefs or magical thinking (In children and adolescents, bizarre preoccupations or fantasies) -Unusual perceptual experiences -Odd thinking and Speech -Suspiciousness or Paranoia -Inappropriate/Constricted Affect -Behavior/Appearance that is odd, peculiar, or eccentric -Few or no close friends/confidants -Excessive Social Anxiety that does not go away with familiarity

I’ll go over these symptoms in more detail later, but there they are!

Basically, STPD is like a very mild form of Schizophrenia. Those who have it are very detached from their peers, but not by choice–their separation is generally very painful for them, because they WANT to have close friends, but they don’t trust people enough to get very close.

They may also have mild psychotic symptoms–their ideas of reference and magical thinking resembling delusions, and odd perceptual experiences resembling (very mild) hallucinations. The difference, however, is that they can tell the difference between reality and fantasy. They will usually be able to tell that, realistically, no one is watching them and that the things they hear are just illusions. It’s still terrifying, though, and they’ll still feel very anxious and paranoid about it!

There are two subsets of STPD, which are timorous and insipid. Timorous schizotypals are more passive and fearful, and share some characteristics with AvPD. Insipid schizotypals are more withdrawn and indifferent, and share characteristics with SzPD. I’ll go over these more later, but that’s the gist of it.

Around 1-3% of the population has StPD, (which is the same statistic for people with red hair.) Very few people with StPD receive proper treatment, both because of the bias surrounding personality disorders and the disconnect between Schizotypals and themselves. People with STPD can’t often tell that they have a strange way of thinking until they consciously compare themselves with others. However, that doesn’t mean they will NEVER see their thinking as strange! Some schizotypals are aware of their own disorder, and some psychologists theorize that this is because their disorder stems from cognitive deficiencies rather than their environment or predisposition.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

Thanks for reading :)

“so you usually stay at home because of your mental illness?”

yeah.. but don’t think it’s boring…i have several intense mood swings in an afternoon and sometimes i dissociate for hours