#persodivergent

Evening Persodivergent-- A term for one who either suspects, has traits of, or otherwise cannot be 100% sure they have a Personality Disorder, but still find it important enough to mention as one relates to Personality Disorder experiences and needs to note how one interacts with others.

created as the original flag [link] by @the-label-sanctuary is eyestraining.

ID under cut!

Full poll title is "If you're persodivergent, do you tend to get along with other people with personality disorders?"

I've seen some people say they hate other pwPDs, even with the same PD. I want to give the benefit of the doubt in assuming these were blunt statements that needed language adjustment.

In no way do I want to encourage the spread of hate, if anything, I hope this topic is something that makes other pwPDs reflect.

Maybe this is a topic easier put into a form, for anonymity. But MOGAI Tumblr has been kind about pwPDs, far as I have seen, so I think this is something I want to broach here... Maybe a poll with these questions would be best for now?

Does any pwPD(s) not get along with other PDs?

Does any pwPD(s) not get along with the same PD(s)?

If anyone wants to elaborate, I would love to read it. I have my own to tell, though I do want to see the reception of this to know if this is appropriate and open.

I mean I think it's a really broad question so not all that easy to get data on, and there's the factor of comorbidity that'd complicate things too. I'll run a poll asking broadly (in a separate post, which I'll make following this ask) but don't expect it to give too many detailed insights

In our& own experience, we've noticed that as someone with NPD, we tend to gravitate to and often get along well with people with DPD and/or ASPD. Our guess for why we've got a pattern of getting along with pwDPD is 'cause we can have a... a mutually beneficial relationship symptoms-wise, meaning, we& have someone who we know's in our corner and who can give us& supply and talk us& up, and in exchange we& act as a reliable help, source of reassurance and advice. Not always, of course, but happened enough times that we've noticed yeah? As for pwASPD, I mean ASPD and NPD both get demonized like nobody's business, and folks with ASPD quite often are hypoempathetic like we& are which is a shared trait and means we& don't have to try and fake empathy or make up for our hypoempathy in any way, there's often enough an understanding of that "okay you talk about your interest then I'll talk about mine" exchange that we& find a lot of persotypicals find to be rude