28 year old is an academic too lol.

Also for the 801346498246293487623th time, "BPD" is the official abbreviation for borderline personality disorder, NOT bipolar disorder (BD or bipolar). There is no "other BPD."

What's wild is that I have the most stereotypical presentation of autism/ADHD. I didn't even go to school until 5th grade because there's no way I would have been able to sit still. I was just born female and it was the 90's

Beat for beat, same story here. Even had my mom drag me to a hearing specialist as a kid cuz I sucked at listening, turns out I just sucked at allocating attention.

The same thing happened with pain meds and antibiotics. They were overprescribed for so long, now it feels like you have to beg for amoxicillin

My doctor told me she saw many elderly female patients who essentially drank themselves to death in order to cope. They were functional alcoholics. I was well on my way to becoming one of them. I feel like ADHD meds were over prescribed, and now those that need them are punished

I was diagnosed with bipolar (I'm not) anxiety (I wasn't) and depression (okay, fair) before anyone considered I might be ADHD. What this article fails to mention is how many severely ADHD people turn to other drugs if they are not medicated. I had severe insomnia and suicidal ideation at times

i think it's reasonable to access that. If Autism tends to result in independent thinking by rejecting social conditioning, it seems likely you'd end up being vulnerable in general to psychological conditions relying on a altered view of reality.

yeah! so much overlap that there's virtually no utility to the terms haha

It depends if they can do an infantilism on you or not /jk

yeah that's total bunk haha. bipolar is more genetically inheritable than either autism or ADHD and schizophrenia and bipolar are both present from birth in terms of brain alterations

I’ve been under the impression that the difference is theoretically innate vs. acquired…which is also very fuzzy.

It’s a bit like dissociative stuff, which is also very stigmatized and I think also can at least often be considered neurodivergence. There are so many effects on the nervous system level in all these things.

They get confused for each other a lot, too!

like I think there's probably a distinction between ptsd/BPD/CTPSD psychosis and "organic" psychosis just in terms of the symptoms (it tends to be shorter, triggered, and lacking cognitive deficits) but it's clearly in the same general ballpark!!

I very much believe that the bipolar and schizophrenic spectrums, overexcitability, and even PTSD should be considered forms of neurodivergence