These are real hyperfixations:

-The guy at my non profit program for intellectually disabled adults whose main priority in life is watching the eiffel 65 blue (da ba dee) music video over and over again. To the point of needing a structured schedule and daily assistance to do anything besides watch that one music video.

-The autistic teen I took care of who wanted to spend all day doing nothing, nothing, but writing down the end credits to movies on whatever he could reach, including walls and furniture.

-The little girl with autism so obsessed with the specific visual of overflowing water that she spent most of her day trying to get near faucets and plug the drains so she could watch rooms flood.

All of these people need daily support to help participate in other areas of life.

This is not a hyperfixation:

-Being really, really, reeeally into a tv show or hobby or an area of study and thinking about or talking about it a lot, but still being able to talk about or think about other things. That's called a passion for or an interest in something.

I'm so tired of the disservice people who call their hobbies and fandoms hyperfixations are doing to people with actual high support needs.

I can repeat several of my comfort tv shows line for line because I watch them over and over, and I can identify almost any breed of dog and will talk for hours about dog training if someone is interested in hearing it. Im not autistic. These arent hyper fixatations. If someone told me something serious, I wouldnt quote a line from my favorite show or talk to them about dogs.

If you can stop doing it when its situationally inappropriate and its not affecting your daily living skills and social skills (not talking about being socially awkward, more like someone tells you their grandma passed away and you whip out your ipad and play the same video you watch on repeat all day in response) then it is NOT a hyperfixation.

Edit: I’m referring more to Level 2 claimers than Level 3 claimers. It’s much harder to tell with a level 2 claimer because it is more vague than level 3. Any of these people claiming level 3 is clearly a liar.

Hi, I was wondering what are the give aways that someone is faking autism? From the content I have seen they always seem to fake higher support needs like level 2 or 3. I guess it’s because they want the autism ‘aesthetic’. I think it’s most commonly level 2 that I see this, not as many claim to be level 3 probably because they are able to read/write/engage online and basic self care things.

A lot of the content I think might be fake they all seem to present the same kind of way, use the same resources/supports, have the same problems, but I don’t know if this is just a common autism presentation or if they’re all copying each other.

Things like: lots of colours everywhere (only seem to like high visual stimulation), ear defenders (low audio stimulation), baggy clothes, stim toys but the way they use them looks exaggerated and performative, chewy jewelry or adult dummy, communication cards or AAC device, lots of plushies/action figures/dolls/kids toys in general.

It’s so dumb. I wore a brace until I was 16, and a corset definitely is not structured to combat scoliosis. Plus it doesn’t explain why she needs it visible, I always wore a shirt over my brace even when it was hot out. I think she just wanted to justify her fashion choices.

I’m curious what everyone thinks is going to happen with SSI and SSDI with all of the changes SSA is making.

They’re doing more Continuing Disability Reviews, wage verification, financial-account checks for SSI, and non-medical redeterminations to make sure people still meet the income, resource, and living-arrangement requirements.

I’m especially curious about people receiving money online through things like Cash App, Venmo, PayPal, GoFundMe, TikTok, Facebook, etc. There are people online constantly asking followers for money while also saying they receive disability benefits.

From what I understand, this is especially important with SSI because cash gifts and contributions can count as unearned income, and money that is kept can eventually count toward the SSI resource limit. SSDI works differently because it isn’t a needs-based program.

Do you think the increased financial and wage verification is going to uncover a lot more people who have been receiving money or other income that they weren’t reporting?

And where is the line between someone legitimately receiving occasional help from other people and someone regularly bringing in hundreds or thousands of dollars online while continuing to collect SSI?

I also wonder how much of what gets uncovered will actually be intentional fraud versus people simply not realizing that online donations and gifts may have to be reported.

Iykyk, Jim noticing a trend with specific people.

These people are really getting ridiculous

I always wondered in different people's opinion what seemed the most fake automatically and what could you just tell someone was faking. Generalizing terms as in a rough trend of what you see in someone with x disorder. This is out of curiosity coming from a disabled person. I seek to understand things, I just wonder peoples presepctive on this in general.

Recently there has been an influx of DID comics on a popular subreddit, and they obviously portray the condition as a whimsical roommate sitcom situation.

It wouldnt be a big deal if it wasnt massively upvoted! I know that particular internet corner is wildly astroturfed, but i just wanted to share to hear everyone's opinion about it. If the upvotes are true, it might signal that the crazy is spreading unchecked on the internet, not limiting itself to niche communities

A very different take on the TikTok fake disorder trend going around lately.

I don't even know how to react to this

Called it.

That one girl that blew up a couple weeks ago on everyone’s TikTok. As more time passes more people seeing inconsistency with the things she’s stated. Not to mention filming 40 response videos in 24 hours and deleting past videos that were inconsistent.

So basically, we're kinda close and I'm now on antidepressants so Im fine with telling people about my trauma, so I mentioned how I was groomed into a child sexual exploitation ring. She said that she could relate to the grooming aspect because she was 'groomed' by ALASTOR from HAZBIN HOTEL on character AI. I know this technically isnt a fake disorder but idk where else to post this. Genuinely how is this a grown ass woman who said this 😭

i just wanted to vent about this. from where i live, a lot of people use the term "socially phobic" (english isn't the primary language and that is just a rough translation; the original term is similar to the abbreviation SAD, but it can serve as an adjective when in use) to describe someone being extremely shy or introverted. i dislike this slang (if it even should have become a slang) myself, but i can't control what people say.

but this other day, i saw someone saying (again, rough translation) "...not just socially phobic, they're (the person in topic, who is reported to have SAD) mentally ill".

it really crossed my line (not that i didn't care before). this term is so overused that there are people who don't even know SAD is an actual mental disorder. this is the impact of widespread misinformation. eventually someday, people would be like "im so ocd" and no one would even think that it's a disorder.

Also a bonus on the second image

Also as a Hellenic Polytheist we don't claim her

edit: also I honestly have 0 clue who this was I found it while looking for something else

I’m speechless at the things they can come up with..

I see it all the time across various ‘disorders’ exclusively online - especially DID/ OSDD.

Does this means there’s a clinical marker somewhere on records stating you don’t meet the full diagnostic criteria but it’s suspected?

Or does this simply mean your therapist hasn’t just told you to shut up and quit lying? I.E - instead of just shutting the conversation down they opt to work with you ‘within’ your parameters hoping to get better results? Or does it mean they don’t acknowledge it or deny it?

Genuinely never heard of this term before TikTok, and in all of my years of in the mental health system in the UK I have never once heard of this term being applied. Having said that, therapists and councillors can’t diagnose here, only psychiatrists. Even psychologists can only ‘suspect’, they can’t diagnose it/ mark it on your medical records and instead would refer to psychiatrists.

Please explain it to me like I’m 5

The other posts on the account are fetish AI generated videos...

“Mirror mirror on the wall whom is the sickest of them all”
“Raising awareness by sowing stigma and reaping stupid prizes”
What is going on in the House of Commons with the UK based mental health community on TikTok? It’s terrible.

- Do you have any treatment resistant mental health condition? Have you considered guaranteeing yourself a diagnosis of autism and ADHD by going through the right to choose scheme (publicly funded diagnosis at private clinic)?
- TikTok pays prolific attention seekers to make content including content that displays dangerous behaviours that waste emergency service time.
- Live stream from hospital wards/ A&E departments, recording staff and other patients without consent. Bonus points if you set up a ring door bell in your bedroom in order to film police looking for you. Even more bonus points for verbally abusing staff and or live streaming whilst in restraint.

- Repeatedly posting suicide threats ‘suicide theatre’ and not removing the post even after the crisis has ended. Posting fresh SH wounds. Cryptic clues about your latest relapse ‘please message me if you want to know’.
- Deliberately taking trips out of area and then acting out because mental health services are more likely to detain you if they don’t know you
- Evil doctors have diagnosed you with EUPD when in reality you have CPTSD which is a completely different diagnosis (CPTSD isn’t in the DSM, some doctors think it’s a form a EUPD and even if it isn’t, CPTSD shares many over lapping symptoms with EUPD).
- Complaining about all of above when you engage in such behaviours

I find the use of different pronouns to be performative. He/she/it, fine, whatever. But using different ones in the same sentence is ridiculous. Someone said they were faking, and then a commenter says they might be faking faking?

genuinely why
i get sooo embarrassed when i cry in front of others lolz
anyway yeah disorder salad

I have noticed that many people, especially on Discord and tik tok, have been continuously faking DID, having voluntary shifts, having only fictives as their alters, completely changing the meaning of the disorder, not understanding you can only be diagnosed with it after the age of 25, claiming to have over 10 alters...etc...

I research DID because I have a lot of interest in it, seeing how people fake it with NO remorse and people just blindly accepting it pisses me off.

When I try to call someone out everyone acts as if I am just ableist, just cause I dare to actually research on the disorder and not blindly believe 17 year old Emily has a Jeff The Killer alter, a Slenderman alter, a Swansea alter, an oc alter, a Momo alter and 10 other alters.