Hey! You can call us Interstellar! Or any variation of our url if you’d like. We’re a system and use they/them or it/its pronouns collectively. We’ll tag who posts and reblogs with a “#name (pronouns)” tag.
This blog is generally for stuff about being neurodivergent or other disability related things--while that intersects with some of our other blogs, we thought having a specific disability blog would be good for us.
In terms of disability:
We are autistic and have ADHD.
We are a DID system, though we also have nondisordered aspects to our plurality.
We are psychotic.
We’re physically disabled.
We’ve always had a very big special interest in disability because it’s such an important topic to us as it affects us daily. You’ll see a lot of long posts here because of that, with the occasional meme here and there.
We don’t owe anyone medical information about ourselves. You can ask questions about us and we love sharing some things, but we reserve the right to not answer things we feel are asked in bad faith, are invasive, or things we simply don’t want to answer. We’d love to answer questions and we won’t be angry at being asked, but just know that sometimes, things are personal.
We don’t have a DNI, but please be aware that:
We’re very LGBT+ friendly. “Contradictory” labels included.
We’re bodily transgender.
We believe endogenic systems are real systems.
We’re very alterhuman friendly and are alterhuman ourselves.
We’re pro-fiction. We don’t parttake in shipping in general but we absolutely do not harrass people based on their ships and encourage you to simply block tags instead of harrassing authors.
Cringe culture is dead in this house.
We do not believe people with personality disorders (yes, even NPD and ASPD) are evil, and we hate the terms “NPD abuse” and similar. Those are not real things. You mean emotional abuse.
If you need us to tag something, let us know! The things we warn for can be found at the bottom of this post in a link.
Tag List
Organisational:
#op - Orignal posts.
#rb - Reblogs.
#ask - Asks.
#(name + pronouns) - Individual headmate tags--we’ll tag who wrote/reblogged what post.
Disability:
#disability resource - Resources/informational posts/important posts relating to any disability.
#disability - Posts relating to any disability.
#physical disability - Posts relating to phsical disabilities.
#neurodivergent - Posts relating to neurodivergencies and mental disabilities.
#(specific disorder) - Posts will be tagged with specific disorders where applicable, such as “autism”, “arthritis” or “schizoaffective”.
#(specific symptom) - Specific symptoms will also be tagged sometimes, such as “psychosis”, “chronic pain” or “executive dysfunction”.
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A person recently replied to my post asking, if I “really believe cognitively and psychiatrically disabled people should be able to medically transition.”
My response? Yes. Disability does not erase queerness, in fact they are often connected.
If a person, disabled or not, wants to transition medically, and are able to consent, and demonstrate understanding of what a medical transition is, then absolutely.
Every time I express that I think it's shitty to say that genAI "hallucinates," people get weirdly pissy and combative with me.
But until real human beings who experience hallucinations are treated like human beings worthy of respect and dignity...I think perhaps it's shitty to keep associating hallucinations with being non-human, dangerous, and a liar.
It actually really fucking sucks that hallucinating is seen as monster-movie-scary, dangerous, inhuman, and worthy of scorn and/or mockery. It actually really fucking sucks that people who hallucinate or experience delusions can't get compassionate help or understanding, because everyone thinks it's an automatic sign of being dangerous, violent, and a liar. It's a massive problem that people look at hallucinations as "dangerous crazy person shit" that should be gotten rid of or locked away.
I find it crass, at best, to flippantly use the term "AI hallucinations" when real-life people get abused, imprisoned, and killed because they experience hallucinations.
But what do I know, I'm just a crazy person. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
People in the notes keep proposing alternatives or asking me what they should say instead, and I really think y'all are overthinking it. You don't need to coin an entire new term. You can just say "AI generates misinformation." If you need it as a noun, "AI misinformation."
If you want to be provocative, "AI spits out garbled bullshit" works, too.
Fully agree, as someone who experiences mild hallucinations. Also it is simply bad terminology, bordering on propaganda, because it is used to position these 'errors' as unexpected phenomena that can eventually be worked out. As opposed to what it actually is, an inescapable fact about the way large language models work.
LLMs generate text to sound plausible without any regard to whether it is true. That's literally it.
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People with skin conditions deserve better. People with acne, eczema, psoriasis, hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), and other skin conditions do not deserve to be treated like we're contagious or an eyesore. We deserve to be in public and show our skin and not feel ashamed because there is no shame in having a medical condition. We deserve to be free from insensitive questions and unsolicited advice. People with scars, including but not limited to those from burns, surgery, self-harm, injury, illness, and acne also deserve to live life without worrying about rude comments and questions. Don't comment on people's skin, especially strangers'. Even if you think you're being tactful.
To my fellow autistics, stop trying to distance yourself from higher support needs folks.
There’s a fine line between not wanting to not intrude or speak over their experiences, and feeling the need to separate yourself, and not be associated at all with those higher on the spectrum.
Language like:
I’m autistic, but I don’t “act like a baby.
I’m not “that” autistic.
I’m autistic, not stupid!
Cross that line.
If you find yourself saying those kinds of things, I’d gently invite you to get curious about why you feel that way.
What does “acting like a baby” look like? Do some of those associations apply to severely disabled people? Who are “those” autistics? And what does being “stupid” entail?
Asking yourself these kinds of questions can help you get to the root of those beliefs, and open up more room for self exploration and acceptance.
At the very least it’s just something to think about.
Schizospec culture is constantly asking your trusted people "do you smell that?" because you constantly smell fire, sewage, and other unsettling smells (they never smell it)
it sucks how people dont let you talk about your psychotic experiences and immediately just go "see a doctor about that" or "i am not qualified to help with this" like i actually am not asking you to fix this i just need someone to listen to me because this experience is incredibly isolating and lonely and scary and no one seems to be able to deal with me when i really just need a friend. like why is it ok to talk about your autism or adhd struggles but as soon as it is psychosis it is chucked in the too hard basket.
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Chronic pain is like: I'm in pain. "Well, you really shouldn't let that stop you from doing things." Ok, I guess I'll keep doing this even though I'm in pain. "Well, if the pain was really that bad, then it would stop you from doing things, so it's probably not that bad." Actually, it got worse because I kept doing things. "Well, why would you overdo it and hurt yourself? You should know your limits." Ok, fine. I know my limit, and I have reached it. I need to rest. "Okay, but last week you did all this other stuff, so I know you CAN do more, so I think you're just making excuses?" Ok.
"We're not supposed to be honest when people ask us how we are?"
Uhm.. Actually, you can be. There's a lot of people who are honest when answering that question. They just do it in ways that don't come across so upsetting or depressing.
Many people sugarcoat their answers to be more palatable for a greeting, or for a start of a conversation. It can also just be a polite way of giving others an out for a potential depressing conversation they may not want to be a part of.
These responses usually come in forms like,
- "How are you?/How's it going?" -
"Could be better."
"It's definitely going."
"I'm still alive."
"I'm getting there."
"New day, new problems."
"Well, I'm still here."
"Same old."
"It's not all sunshine."
"It's moving along".
"It is what it is."
"Not great but I'll survive."
"Hoping tomorrow comes quickly."
And many more responses like this. These are all ways of basically saying "Things are kinda/very shit at the moment for me". But they just don't go into detail about it. They are being honest, without the extra information.
If the other person doesn't want to go further into this then they may just responed with something like "I feel you", or "That's relatable", or "Yeh, that's life". Which are basically ways of saying "I acknowledge things aren't easy right now", without having to go into a conversation about it. Not everyone has the emotional energy to deal with conversations like that in that moment and that's okay.
Honesty doesn't need to come with the extra information. A lot of people won't give the extra information and that's the difference.
The problem with being low support needs is that people mentally autocorrect that to “no support needs” and then proceed to give you absolutely nothing and then get surprised when you implode after six months.
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people really need to stop using psychotic to mean evil. Disabilities don't affect moral character. Stop. Neurotypicals shouldn't be allowed to use the word psychotic until they know what it means
