Comrade_Spood

Autism and ADHD are not mental illnesses, they're learning disabilities (technically ADHD is classified as an OHI, but that's not the point). Depression, BPD, Schizophrenia, and anxiety are mental illnesses. And while yes, chronic online usage may negatively affect some of the illnesses, they are not caused by online use and can not be transmitted over the internet. Online use does not cause or worsen disabilities.

Everyone should cut back on online usage. But not because of some ableist rhetoric from someone misunderstanding psychiatric advice, as well as someone who doesn't know the difference between a disability and a mental illness. You are comparing apples to oranges.

Thats as best of a why as we got. Sometimes things don't have clear reasons or origins

Here's a video full of them. I am done and fulfilled my end of this interaction. I will not fall victim to tankie sealioning.

https://youtu.be/sexImJU4-Oo

Engels was a bourgeoisie cunt that doesn't understand what the word "authority" means.

You mean fascism with red characteristics

For ADHD, very quick and easy (however I have been told that is not normal). I met with my PCP and said I wanted an ADHD diagnosis to get accomodations and emphasized I didn't want a prescription, cause I take enough meds as it is and would prefer to learn how to cope without the use of meds. I also explained to him my history grappling with my ADHD especially in school. The important thing here was showing it is a long time and consistent problem, one that exists in multiple settings (not just school, but at home, and work too). All of this made my doctor feel comfortable giving me the diagnosis. For autism, I haven't started the process yet, waiting on a referral cause my doctor wasn't comfortable diagnosing it.

If you want meds to help manage ADHD it will probably be a little harder to get the diagnosis, but I think as long as you establish that it is a long patterned history in more than just one setting, establish clearly why you want the diagnosis, and give detailed examples and stories of the symptoms (and maybe a little bit of luck) I think you should be fine.

I hope this eases your worries a bit and I hope it helped. Rooting for you.

As others have said, I think its important to include some level of accountability for moderators. Ways for the users to identify when a moderator is abusing their responsibilities and clear, fair, and accessible process for users to remove them from those responsibilities in a case of consistent abuse.

The closest thing an anarchist would ever advocate for in regards to an internal peacekeeping force would be some sort of community defense to defend against violent threats to community. But there would be ways to prevent it from becoming centralized and abusive. One way is by training everyone in the community in community defense and rotating the role. Their are other ways as well. But besides the point

I found out I was neurodivergent cause I became friends with a lot of people who are, and when I would talk about my experiences they would basically tell me its related to this or that disability. So I realized I was neurodivergent from my friends basically telling me I was. I came to accept it but never felt comfortable identifying as neurodivergent. Always felt I needed to specify "probably have ADHD" or "I probably have autism." Always felt like I needed to add plausible deniability to avoid being accused of self-diagnosing. Basically I wasn't confident enough. When I got my diagnosis I didn't feel like I needed to do that anymore. I could say with confidence "I have ADHD." It made my experiences in school feel real, and took away a lot of the guilt I felt for failing. I realized I was not the problem, I just wasn't getting the treatment I needed to succeed.

I have the nsfw blur setting off lol

And the Makhnovists

I went my whole childhood without a diagnosis cause all the adults in my life kept kicking the can down the road saying I'd grow out of it. Didn't get diagnosed till this year, and I am about to be in my mid twenties. It was very validating to get the diagnosis. Gonna get checked for autism too