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"Bleach + Ammonia = Chloramine. Chloramine smells like chlorine. It irritates eyes, skin and mucous membranes.

Bleach + Alcohol = Chloroform. Chloroform can knock you out. It causes liver damage and potentially respiratory or cardiac failure.

Bleach + Vinegar = Chlorine Gas. Chlorine is a toxic gas that attacks the eyes, respiratory system and skin.

Peroxide + Vinegar = Peracetic Acid. Peracetic acid is highly corrosive and irritates the eyes, skin and respiratory system."

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Proper boundaries

actually evil how a terf uses a trans icon. yikes.

“You shouldn’t self-ID as ADHD/autistic, you’re turning a very real mental condition into a trend” Ok then stop saying delulu. Stop speculating on which cluster C personality disorder the criminals you hear about on the news have. Stop saying “schizoposting” and “acoustic” and “is it restarted?” Stop using “psycopath” and “sociopath” as catch-all ways of calling someone a bad person. Stop saying “the intrusive thoughts won” when you bleach your hair and then turn your nose up at people who suffer from very real, very scary urges of physical/sexual violence. Stop saying “I’m so OCD” as a way of calling yourself neat. Stop treating BPD/ASPD/Bipolar as inherently abusive. Stop saying “OP I am living in your walls” without tagging for unreality. Stop diagnosing complete strangers you’ve never met on r/AITA with NPD.

You first. If you don’t want our disabilities to be treated like trends then stop belittling and minimising them. I’ll NEVER judge a person for trying find labels for their symptoms when an apathetic, racist, sexist, ableist healthcare system refuses to. But I will absolutely judge a hypocrite. Which a lot of you are

Something I desperately want ppl to know:

LONG COVID CAN LOOK INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM ADULT ADHD

If you are an adult who has never experienced ADHD symptoms until recently: you may have a form of Long COVID

many ppl who have it call ‘brain fog’. Its primary feature is being unable to concentrate & short term memory/working memory issues, which severely impairs executive function.

COVID-induced brain fog’s effect on executive function is essentially indistinguishable from ADHD’s effect on the same.

& brain fog is A VERY COMMON LONG COVID SYMPTOM

as the number of adults with executive dysfunction has shot up, i want people to remember this. Especially if they get an ADHD evaluation and are told they’re not ADHD

Because we are all disabled, and we deserve care and understanding no matter what disabled us

Remember that every time you use your mobility aid in public, there is very likely another person there who is too apprehensive to use their own mobility aid and feels braver from seeing you use yours.

hot take but imo the harm caused by gatekeeping self-identification in regards to Queerness and Disability is much greater than the harm of people self-identifying in bad faith or "incorrectly"

Self DX Resources

A compiled list of resources for self dx of autism. These follow the medical paradigm and there are no paywalls. Some of these are outdated (DSM-IV) and directed towards children and adolescents, however, they’re still useful for people of all ages. They explain in depth different neurodevelopmental disabilities which could be used as differential diagnoses for autism. NAIT is a great resource for adults attempting to obtain an autism or ADHD diagnosis.

Introduction to Developmental Disabilities

Psychotropic Medications for Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

DSM-IV-TR Developmental Disorders

Unit 4 PDDs

Developmental Disorder (Wiki)

A preliminary study of gender differences in autobiographical memory in autistic children

Child and adolescent mental and behavioral disorders

Ch22 Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Autism Spectrum Disorders (Revisor)

PDD and Autism Spectrum Disorders

Assessment and Treatment of ASDs

Types of Developmental Disabilities

Pervasive Developmental Disorders (scribd)

CSUS.edu

NAIT Guide to Autism Assessment

Does anyone else feel like the process of diagnosis/self-diagnosis with autism (or any mental disability really, but in my experience, it's especially been autism) to be more of a mourning process rather than something that's liberating or freeing? I see so many people talk about realizing they are or might be autistic and feeling so relieved with this label/diagnosis becauss it explains so much and now they can find resources and community.

But for myself, it feels like I'm grieving who I thought I was. I feel like I have to look back at my entire life and re-analyze everything I've ever done or said and think "Was that a normal thing to do or say? Was that a normal way to react?" And I feel like everything I do now I'm overanalyzing in the same way; "Is this normal?" I feel like people telling me I am/might be autistic and thinking of that being my reality feels like it's changing everything I know about myself and the world around me. It's so much more stressful to admit I am autistic than freeing, so I deny it or just say it's a possibility but unlikely. And that isn't to say being autistic is bad or shameful in any way; it's just very difficult to apply that label/diagnosis to myself when, again, I feel like I've gone my whole life thinking I'm like everyone else despite my quirks. Now it doesn't just feel like quirks; it's a disorder/disability, and that's hard for me to cope with personally.

It seems like there are people who go through this grieving process with their diagnosis, but ultimately come out the other side feeling more liberated and happy. But again, I feel like I don't see a lot of people talking about that grief, so it'd be nice to know it's not just me.

Destroy the idea that self diagnosis means you don't have that disorder.

I'm tired of talking to people who say "Well you can only say you probably have it." or "You don't know for sure." I'm tired of that, I'm tired of being told that people can't know for sure.

There is a million and one valid reasons someone is self diagnosed, from living in an abusive situation to literally cannot get diagnosed because they will lose other things.

Research is implied, because why would you self diagnose if you were normal?

Clout, attention and otherwise, is temporary. Even if you are doing it as a fad, that will eventually change. Do you know what isn't temporary? Being able to manage your disability and finding a community that helps.

I've self diagnosed as multiple things before and have been right every time. It is possible to be correct and I hate that, excuse my language here, self dxed people are seen as delusional fools. It's really upsetting and bad.

So please be respectful to those who are self diagnosed or professional diagnosed. It really doesn't matter that much and it shouldn't.

If I'm gonna be honest, people just don't self diagnose from the void. They almost always do it because they heard from someone else about the symptoms of it.

Like for all my disorders that I've found out about, is through someone else talking about it.

For ADHD, I watched a video about how women with adhd end up going to college and struggling because of lack of structure, I was reminded of it, while I was struggling in college. For DID/OSDD, I was first researching about PTSD, then stumbled onto dissociative disorders, and watched a video by a DID creator on youtube, and really connected with it, even if not all my symptoms were the same. And for OCD, I was watching this guy in his own music video, talk about having OCD, and started researching about it.

People realize because of information that they've seen. That's the truth. I've researched after all of these discoveries and if someone self diagnoses for any reason, then you have no right to tell them otherwise. We can understand our own symptoms, it's an ableist myth that "crazy people don't know they're crazy".

Maybe the problem isn’t people self diagnosing! Maybe the problem is that a professional diagnosis isn’t easily accessible a lot of places! Maybe you could actually do research on how difficult it is to get a diagnosis for so many people! Maybe instead of complaining that people are self diagnosing, you could use that energy to push for better healthcare!!

Can’t ever think “I haven’t had symptoms in a while!” bc I will immediately get symptoms

“You can’t self diagnose thats disrespectful to people actually suffering from that” okay but have you considered dying a slow miserable death

Anyways as a diagnosed autistic I support self diagnosing autism.

I'm so fucking pissed off, so send me asks and submissions about your imposter syndrome and questions about your suspected disabilities and disorders.

I'm so sick and tired of people invalidating others and in turn feeling like they can't have their disabilities.

Obviously, I'm not a doctor, but I'll give you suggestions about things you should look into, or if that thing seems correct.

SO please send in stuff!!! Tell me if you'd like it to be answered privately. Fuck it, free self diagnosis.