sometimes think I might have bpd but that's the disorder my biomom used to armchair-diagnose me with to shut me up every time I talked about gender dysphoria so I'm kinda hostile to the idea
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
I'm not saying BPD doesn't correspond to a real set of symptoms or real underlying condition but it is important to keep in mind that the literal meaning of being "borderline" was "not crazy enough to lock up but too crazy to treat normally" (ie "borderline schizophrenia")
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
And historically and in the present day that's how the diagnosis was and is used by clinicians - "I would prefer not to treat this patient"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Most of the discourse around BPD right now is over whether or not it's actually separate from PTSD, and whether calling it a "personality disorder" is just a way to blame lifelong sufferers of abuse for their symptoms
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Replying to @adrienneleigh @arthur_affect
oh man that makes the armchair diagnosis shit super dark
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biomom sends my third-grade ass into the operation room to arbitrarily remove a yonic characteristic from my genitals, lies to me about it for the rest of my life, then tells me as an adult any feelings I have about female are my just happening to SEEM like I've been traumatized
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @adrienneleigh
Sending your dad to try to have a man-to-man talk about why you should never look up or talk about or think about your surgery again didn't help
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Not that there's a good way to have such a talk but it sounds like he did a particularly bad job
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(Speaking for myself a lot of my childhood trauma is related to adults seeming to do things that made no sense and refusing to explain it to me)
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