Still Simping For Candybug

Chapter 12 if bro had let the impulsive Cy-bug thoughts take over HFHGFDSDXGDFCGHHVB

An important thing to keep in mind is that people with disorders are not a hivemind. They are individual people with their own thoughts and feelings and their experiences with the disorder may vary from person to person. It’s also important to write it in a way that the disorder may EXPLAIN their thoughts and actions, but it is not an excuse to hide behind when it comes to their choices. Turbo, for example, was a bad person because of his bad choices, NOT because he has NPD. The NPD contributed heavily to his mental breakdown(s), but so did the EXTREMELY toxic culture of the arcade, and his complete refusal to communicate with the core four about the doubts he was having, when Vanellope especially kept trying to make him feel safe to open up about stuff like that. While the NPD contributed in how badly he was taking everything, he also just made some REALLY terrible choices that ended up making things go sideways. (And even then, he did eventually learn and grow from those mistakes and is making an effort to live a healthier life, which dumbass ableists claim NPD people “aren’t capable of”, lol) Very, very important to make a distinction between the disordered thoughts and the actual choices made, so that it doesn’t feel like you’re painting everybody with the disorder as some evil person who can't control themselves and are doomed to abuse everybody in their life forever or some idiotic shit like that, lol. They’re just people who have different thought processes and lower empathy levels than non-Cluster Bs, and that’s completely fine. It doesn’t make them emotionally stupid or automatically "abusive" people or something, just different in how they think about things and interact with the world. Yes, it is a disorder, and it makes life REALLY fucking complicated, but as long as you’re treating it respectfully and making sure to listen to the experiences of people who have the disorder, you should be okay! A lot of people will appreciate the fact that you’re trying to write Cluster Bs sympathetically in the first place, since they get demonized to hell and back literally all the time. A lot of the pwNPD that’ve talked to me about it were mostly just incredibly relieved that someone was making an effort to ACTUALLY understand them and represent it properly, when most people don’t bother. (I also have an advantage in that I’m friends with a pwNPD in real life, so I already had a good idea of how some of this stuff worked before I even started researching for the fic.)