Well, here I am at my second entry. Looks like I’m really doing this. (For you, Carrie.)
I’m going to be using some abbreviations and terms that many people may not use or be familiar with. So for the sake of making this blog easily comprehensible, I’m making an entry on some of the aforementioned terms and abbreviations.
Terms
Ableism: the oppressive system that privileges abled people over disabled people; bigotry against disabled people
Allistic: not autistic
Autistic (capitalized): autistic and proud; a political identity as well as a neurodevelopmental one
Favorite person: someone who is idolized by a person with BPD; the person with BPD’s happiness and self-worth depend heavily on how their FP treats them
Microaggression: casual degradation of any socially marginalized group, often through language
Neurodivergent: having a mental, neurological, developmental, intellectual, and/or psychological disorder and/or disability
Neurodiversity: a movement dedicated to the acceptance of autism as a natural variant on the human experience and not a disorder
Neurotypical: not neurodivergent
Neurotypicalism: the oppressive system that privileges neurotypical people over neurodivergent people; bigotry against neurodivergent people
Saneism: the oppressive system that privileges mentally healthy people over mentally ill people; bigotry against mentally ill people
Spoons: units of wherewithal; used by disabled people to describe their ability to accomplish tasks, e.g., “I actually had the spoons to clean the kitchen”; reference to spoon theory, developed by Christine Miserandino
Trigger: stimulus that causes or exacerbates symptoms of an illness or other disabling condition
Abbreviations
ARFID: Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder
ASPD: Antisocial personality disorder
BPD: Borderline personality disorder
CPTSD: Complex post-traumatic stress disorder
CW: Content warning
DID: Dissociative identity disorder
DP/DR: Depersonalization/derealization
ED: Eating disorder
FP: Favorite person
GAD: Generalized anxiety disorder
HPD: Histrionic personality disorder
ID/DD/LD: Intellectually disabled/developmentally disabled/learning disabled
MD: Mood disorder
MDD: Major depressive disorder
MH: Mental health
MHCP: Mental health care provider
MI: Mentally ill
ND: Neurodivergent
NPD: Narcissistic personality disorder
NT: Neurotypical
OCD: Obsessive-compulsive disorder
OSDD: Otherwise specified dissociative disorder
OSFED: Other specified feeding/eating disorder
PD: Personality disorder
PTSD: Post-traumatic stress disorder
TW: Trigger warning
I also think I’m going to close each of my posts with a Carrie Fisher quote. Some of them will be humorous (since she was hilarious) and some will be more serious and related to mental illness. Today I think we need some levity, so here is what Carrie said when Stephen Colbert asked her about being asked to lose weight for filming Star Wars: “They want to hire part of me, not all of me. They want to hire about three-fourths, so I have to get rid of the fourth. The fourth can’t be with me.”
Something else I’m doing today is donating to the Bipolar International Foundation in Carrie’s honor. I think she would approve.
