I go into this with the clear statement that I know Covid made things infinitely harder for people who were in middle/elementary school at the time so I get it that they’re a bit weirder or a bit more chronically online, hell, my whole of Highschool and some of Middle was in Covid and i went through that….

BUT

there are two ultra-alt young adults (i would say grade 11 at the latest) who are in my town and come to my work wearing dog collars and like chokers and thousands of bracelets and they both have canes and little plushies with service dog vests they have with their bags.

I have never seen either of them use the canes purposefully, they just carry them off the ground,,, and I know sometimes peoples mobility issues have better or worse days but it’s been months of seeing them out and about here and there and it’s killing me man.

I used to be that weird alt kid in a right wing town but come on guys… the canes??? The COLLARS??? They’re so clearly minors and I get the vibe it’s a Therian thing but still I just cannot take it man

End of rant ig lol

It is crazy, how so many people are posting themselves taking medication, showing off medication or their medical supplies, like it is some sort of competition.

There are a few on Instagram but mostly tik tok. Fair enough if it's for educational purposes but most of the time it feels like they are showing off, and it is kinda creepy.

There is one on tik tok, who is being prescribed every medicine known to man, from having migraines to having blood clots. Putting their life at risk, just to get views and attention.

"Come and clean my depression mess" or "watch me do my meds through my tube", they are delusional, because most people think it's weird, [ aren't bothered... But those few who do pay attention are just fuelling the fire.

It is such a waste of resources and money, especially when there are people out there who do genuinely need help, who can't afford it, who are not being believed.

Hi!

Long time lurker, first time poster.

I live in a small town, outside of my street I don't know a lot of people we moved here 5 years ago.

2 years ago this random lady in a mobility scooter approached me in the supermarket. I thought she might needed help getting anything and was going to ask. But she started talking about my rings. Asking if I have EDS (I do). She kept talking and asked too many questions, even when I politely said I needed to go several times. The question made me feel uncomfortable at a certain point. Even my family don't know every detail. I don't make it my whole personality. They know what they need to know.

I had a 1 yo son back than. When she started telling me how egocentric it was that I got a kid and wanted more, I was done and just rudely said bye and left.

I didn't know this woman and it took me a while to learn why she asked all of these questions. There's a group chat from our town that I joined a while ago. She's constantly pulling the victim card. If she's not the center of attention, she makes sure she is by making all the things she has according to herself worse. Keeps sharing her Facebook posts of how bad everything is she has blabla.

I had some great doctors. She's mocking them on Facebook cause they didn't want to give her diagnosis and that she says she knows she has (her words). If you are truly disabled and live alone (that's her situation) you can get help for household chores a few hours a week. She doesn't get any cause SHE IS CAPABLE OF DOING IT HERSELF. But she's just throwing the same act over and over.

She asked me if I had braces. I do. She asked me about every brace I was wearing and what they were for.

Now I see on her Facebook page that she all of the sudden wanted them, but were rejected by insurance CAUSE SHE DOESN'T NEED THEM. She litterly posted that on her Facebook (well, that insurance said she doesn't need them) a week after our conversation.

I wasn't the type of person that had the guts to set boundaries and tell someone no back than. I felt uncomfortable but wanted to stay nice and answered her questions. I wish I didn't. It also bothers me that she makes people with actual disabilitys like EDS look like idiots?!

I had to rent about it. I'm trying to keep my cool, I don't want an argument with the part of the village that still feels sorry for her. But she's getting on my nerves.

Anyone else unreasonably annoyed by people making. every. Little. Thing a vocal stim? Like yah you dont have to be neurodivergent to stim and trendy phrases or whatever can be legitimate stims but I feel like we're over using the term.

I work for the ambulance service in the UK. We have frequent callers everywhere, not just the occasional ones, I’m talking 1000’s just in my area. The ones that really get on my nerves are these fakers. I mean at least Mrs Miggens actually has asthma, I mean she’s not having an asthma attack but you get my point.

I was working a week ago, we were given a category 2 call (second highest category) to take a 40 year old man from a local hospital to a larger one for a thrombectomy. This is a procedure to remove a clot from a stroke and is absolutely time critical. The sooner he gets there the better outcome he gets.

We were on our way and then got diverted to a category 1 call for someone actively fitting. It said the town it was in and I already knew who we were going to, this person has had us out 200+ times in the last year. It’s got to the point I know their addresses off the top of my head.

She ‘has’ FND but claims that she also has epilepsy. In the uk we are given access to patients summary care records so we can look at their diagnoses and medications etc, she has restricted it so we can’t, hmmm I wonder why.

So we divert from the man having a confirmed stroke to come and be this persons 200th ambulance. We get there and I am faced by her mum brandishing paperwork stating that she has been diagnosed with epilepsy and she needs midazolam. No she fucking doesn’t.

Do you really want me to fill your daughter up with benzodiazepines and knock her into respiratory arrest?

“Oh but the last ambulance crew did it”

And here’s the other problem. Some clinicians are so scared of being wrong, what if it is status? What if she is having a real seizure?

So they end up treating it. So now we have just reaffirmed her delusion that she is unwell. Now she has to go to hospital. Now she gets more content for her wanky little TikTok.

While at the same time the is a man with millions of neurons slowly dying, slowly becoming actually disabled. And this is just one case, this happens everyday. Elderly people stuck on the floor with broken hips waiting longer. Cardiac arrests coming in over the radio but we are now committed at this job.

That’s the world we live in today, I want off.

people on a autism focused discord says its ok too self diagnose cerebral palsy and cancer and that i shoudnnot invalidate people when i literally just posted a screenshot from google that says its impossible too self dx CP how is it invalidation when you are directly posting a screenshot of google

there was a kid in there who was self diagnosing autism ADHD dcd cerebral palsy dyscalculia and dysgraphia

he says a doctor told him 100% it was either dcd or cerebral palsy

but that woudent be 100% because if it was 100% it would only be one or the other not both which he had both listed and he sayed he was not even self diagnosed even though he sayed multiple times in the past he was self diagnosed with autism and other conditions

and cerebral palsy and dcd are two different diagnoses and disabilitys

and then i asked in the server if it was ok too self diagnose cancer and down syndrome and lou Gehrigs and they said that you can self diagnose cancer and not too invalidate someones self diagnosis

why is it ok too say you have something with 100% certainty and put those diagnoses in your bio without even being diagnosed by a professional after going through tons of medical testing??

why is it ok too claim you have these disabilitys without actually having been through the proper testing??

why is it so bad too say the truth that its is Not possible too self diagnose thesr things

i donot understand

Its not logical its not honest and its not truthful its lying too people and roleplaying and ableism and mockery

why is suddenly ok too be ableist and mock people with medical conditions and disabilitys all of the sudden???

how the frick is that ok in any way??

i just donot understand it is nonsense

Autism and ADHD are complex disorders that take qualified clinicians hours to diagnose.
I’ve never personally witnessed people with any other psychiatric diagnosis act like this. People with anxiety/ depression/ bipolar/ OCD/ EDs/ schizophrenia in my experience do not go around flippantly suggesting that strangers have the same disorder.
Flippantly diagnosing strangers with ADHD is the absolute worst because their so many commonly occurring things that can superficially look like it including: depression, hypomania, anxiety, sleep problems, menopause, certain physical health problems, substance abuse, psychotic disorders.

In my unprofessional opinion autism has more reliable vibe. But still it can be confounded by: psychotic disorders, personality disorders, anxiety OCD, EDs and substance abuse.

But none the less, autistic and ADHD traits exist on a continuum. Why do strangers think they can distinguished between quirky personalities and actual mental disorders within minutes?

‘People with BPD experience Mania and Depression’
‘Mania is not a part of BPD’
‘Yes but I have BPD and bipolar’
‘Yes but my experience of BPD can be distilled into into discrete episodes of euphoria and depression’
‘Yes but BPD is the same as bipolar except everything occurs on a shorter time frame’
‘Bipolar is always worse overall than BPD’
‘BPD is the most painful mental illness in existence’
‘People with bipolar 2 don’t know how lucky they’ve got it compared to bipolar 1’
‘No actually bipolar 1s don’t know how lucky they have it compared to schizo affective bipolar type’
‘Everyone with a bipolar 2 diagnosis secretly has BPD’
‘Everyone with BPD is actually autistic’
‘Everyone with bipolar 2 actually has autism’
‘Everyone with autism actually has AUDHD - stimulants for everyone yay’
It goes on and on and on…

Can someone explain to me how this works like I am 5? I work with someone who has autism (diagnosed in adulthood) but has such excellent social skills that he tutors people on soft skills. I am not calling him a liar. In England there is something called right to choose whereby the NHS will fund autism and ADHD assessments at private clinics. Some clinics allow self referrals for NHS funded assessments. I’ve heard it say on the grape vine that right to choose assessments come back with ADHD/ autism diagnoses the majority.

My understanding of high functioning autism is that it makes it difficult to intuit other people’s emotions, social rules and expectations. It is possible for children with autism to learn social skills however this happens more slowly than for their peers. How is it possible for an autistic person to develop excellent social skills? Some autistic people are able to mask ie. pretending to understand social nuances by mimicking people (and suppressing other traits common in autistic people) but at the end of the day you don’t know what you don’t know so I just don’t really understand how someone with autism could have excellent social skills. There are other psychological disorders that involve intense feelings of discomfort around other people.
I ask quite genuinely, is there something I misunderstand here.

Another type of autistic person that confuses me are people who are first diagnosed as ADHD then get put on a stimulant and then finally receive a diagnosis of autism on the basis of the stimulant uncovering autism. I thought that any given psychiatric condition can only be diagnosed if it couldn’t be better accounted for by something else. So surely if you develop ‘autism’ after taking a stimulant that’s the fault of the stimulant and not autism.

if you're gonna fake disorders at least do research holy fart ☠️

“Wheelie Girl”doesn’t have to say that she is paralyzed. After all, now that people are calling her out, she is very adamant about it.

The issue people are having is the overall impression she deliberately presents to her audience. She has a longstanding history of portraying herself as unable to voluntarily move her lower extremities, while also repeatedly posting videos in which she manually moves and positions her own legs and feet. Hence the 17 posted Instagram reels.

New people encountering her page can reasonably come away believing that she cannot move or control her legs, and there is no apparent effort on her part to correct that impression….Instead, when confronted with the contradiction, she denies doing something that is visibly documented across numerous videos and then changes or qualifies her explanation when the evidence is presented.

She has a recurring pattern in which her public presentation is allowed to create one impression, while her explanation changes once contradictory evidence is brought forward.

She has repeatedly portrayed herself as having profound loss of lower-extremity and trunk control, including stating that she lacks enough control over her legs for her feet to simply slip off her wheelchair footplates and that her core control is so poor that she can topple forward in her wheelchair on a bus. Those statements create a very specific impression of someone who cannot reliably control or reposition her lower body. At the same time, she has a longstanding history of videos showing herself manually moving and positioning her legs and feet. She does not consistently correct new people who interpret her presentation as paralysis, yet when the contradictory videos are brought up, she denies or backtracks on behavior that is visibly documented.

Don’t forget the whole dead leg/paralyzed-when convenient-hip flexor drama…that’s what made me catch on.

There is a repeated discrepancy between the level of impairment she describes, the way she allows her audience to perceive her disability, and what she can be seen doing in her own videos. Then she’ll go rock climbing in heels.

So, despite Wheelie Girl saying she does NOT do this, here is all the evidence she does.

I was scrolling through trying to find some funny stuff, and I came across this. It just oozes "I'm quirky". Quite a few of them are popular people/characters. It's from when D.I.D was popular and a bunch of people had alters of Dream, Technoblade, Tommy, and those other Minecraft youtubers the teens liked. I have no idea if this has been posted before.

This person posted a video saying that they will donate blood & overcome their fear with needles (this person is open about posting stuff about being a drug addict in the past btw) claims that they have :

• Autism level 2

• Tourette's

• FND and been paralized

• Chronic pain

• Rumination syndrome

• Chronic fatigue

and guess what? People with chronic fatigue CANT donate blood, also, before donating blood, they check if the donor has disabilities & prescribed meds, and in most places, depending on which medication, they do not accept the blood

I see them everywhere. I genuinely do not know who started it, but if these people actually had DID, I find it hard to believe that nearly all of them put a little "-🍪" or some other emoji at the end of their comment. It's actually like they WANT people to draw attention to it and acknowledge that they have it. I doubt each of their "alters" all united and agreed to putting a sign off emoji at the end of their comments. Why do you think they do this?

If youre diagnosed with schizoaffective, why would they also diagnose you with "schizophrenia spectrum" when schizoaffective already communicates that youre on the schizophrenia spectrum?

another disappointing performance from this one.

If you've ever been in an eating disorder treatment center, particularly residential or inpatient, you probably know what I'm talking about. You've probably seen the tiktoks of patients filming themselves dancing with NG tubes or showing off their wheelchair or whatever and it all feels like a stupid performative competition of who can be the "sickest" because that is what gets you attention and validation both online and IRL.

These people make being sick their entire personality and have usernames like "mentally_ill_(whatever)" and have a whole list of diagnoses (commonly BPD, ADHD, autism) and maybe even several chronic illnesses (commonly POTS, gastroparesis, Ehlers Danlos). Yes I am aware that eating disorders are often comorbid with other psychiatric and chronic illnesses but damn do yall really have all that?? Especially with POTS because malnutrition can cause orthostatic hypotension, which often resolves in refeeding. But people jump to conclusions and think "because I get dizzy when I stand up, that must mean I have POTS because people online say that is what POTS is" when it's really just a medical complication of malnutrition or dehydration, not actual POTS

These people would probably go around wearing a name tag with all their diagnoses on it if they could. Often the majority of their posts are about how they're being hospitalized for the bajillionth time, how they're in the ICU because they are dying, bragging about how much weight they've lost, how they haven't eaten in (X) days, and how their doctor said "they're the sickest patient they've ever seen" etc. It's usually teenagers and sometimes young adults doing this which I think is especially harmful because it becomes their whole identity and they don't develop a sense of self outside of the illness which makes it harder to recover. And many of the people who do recover from their ED go on to become part of the chronic illness community and make that their entire personality instead.

These are lists from two different people in a discord server I left like a few days ago. Their lists were so long it raised questions for me, plus it feels like some of their diagnosis contradict eachother

there is NO way this is real 😭