- against self-diagnosing )with extensive research)
- don't include disabled people in your activism
- use fancy fonts in your account
- demonize cluster b disorders. say things like 'narcissistic abuse', use psychopath/sociopath in derogatory ways or etc
- infantilize or romanticize any illnesses or disorders in any way
- refer to neurodivergent/disabled people as 'special' or 'differently abled'
- think that because you can't see the disability it "isn't that bad" mental & invisible disabilities are just as valid
- use disorders/disabilities as insults/descriptors eg: 'this weather is so bipolar', 'i'm so ocd about that', 'they're blind to the facts', 'tone-deaf' & etc
- 'endogenic' system or a supporter
- refuse to use tone tags and/or mock them & people who need them.
- still use outdated & offensive terms such as aspergers, low/high-functioning labels, sociopath or psychopath
- think the autism spectrum linear.
- spread misinform about disorders or illnesses. i am looking at you tiktok fuckers.
- believe disorders/illnesses have 'looks' eg: "you don't look autistic" "you don't look depressed" "you don't look ____" etc.
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