Discussion Psychological Hot Takes

[NormallyNeurotic]

They only function to gaslight the people who the systems in place have failed (which is most of us, because the machine only really benefits the rich) by convincing us that there is something wrong with our state of existence, which most of the time there is nothing inherently wrong with anyone.

I'm sorry your experience has been like this. My therapist helped me a lot with things that were causing me to struggle but never implied they were inherently "wrong." I don't find maladaptive things to be wrong, but there's no shame in pointing out when something is maladaptive.

 

[Pluto]

 

[MyLifeisHell]

If autism could be eliminated (specifically as in no new autistic people are born) it should be

 

[NormallyNeurotic]

If autism could be eliminated (specifically as in no new autistic people are born) it should be

I can understand how horrendous the sensory symptoms are to live with, but for me I don't think I'd ve me without my autism. Sometimes as a kid I would feel bad for allistics. Their feelings seemed so shallow in compared to the autists I grew up around.

An allistic, especially those without ADHD, might have a new episode of their favorite show come out and just feel... sort of excited. Or they might get to eat their favorite food that they rarely get to eat, and still want to "switch it up" the day after. I always found it odd.

Expand more on your example, please?

 

[martyrdom]

I can understand how horrendous the sensory symptoms are to live with, but for me I don't think I'd ve me without my autism. Sometimes as a kid I would feel bad for allistics. Their feelings seemed so shallow in compared to the autists I grew up around.

An allistic, especially those without ADHD, might have a new episode of their favorite show come out and just feel... sort of excited. Or they might get to eat their favorite food that they rarely get to eat, and still want to "switch it up" the day after. I always found it odd.

We non-autistic people do in fact have powerful, deep and overwhelming emotions. Quite often.

 

[NormallyNeurotic]

We non-autistic people do in fact have powerful, deep and overwhelming emotions. Quite often.

I know. I used the term "seemed" (past tense) and said "as a kid" for a reason. Then I explained some examples of things that lead me to that conclusion. I know plenty of non-autistic people.

 

[Arvayn]

The entire field of psychology is a primitive and imperfect tool that we only use because neurology hasn't fully developed yet. It's akin to how we relied on astrology before astronomy became a thing. Once neurology advances to a degree where we understand brains well enough to the point of being able to straight up remove/modify people's behaviors and thoughts through operations and treatments, and it also becomes widely available, psychology will be more or less a complementary field than anything else. The study of lived mental phenomena as it is experienced is a lot less valuable than the study of what, how and why it happens in the first place.

Also, a lot of psychology is based on arbitrary labels when you really think about it, and is rather erroneously assuming a relational humanist mental model as being the ideal; people smuggling in moral values and calling it science. Empirical as it may try to be, there is nothing empirical about the way the human consciousness manifests in affect. The whole field is, at its core, doing well disguised guesswork ("we don't know why this works, it just does"; and if they do know why? The answer is neurological.).

Also, everyone laughed at Freud for inventing the Oedipus Complex, but more and more men want dominant mother figures for partners as time goes on... DAMN YOU FFFREEEEEEUUUUUUUUUDDDDDD! YOU CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIIIIIIISSS!

 

[NormallyNeurotic]

Also, everyone laughed at Freud for inventing the Oedipus Complex, but more and more men want dominant mother figures for partners as time goes on... DAMN YOU FFFREEEEEEUUUUUUUUUDDDDDD! YOU CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIIIIIIISSS!

Me about all the teen girls fawning over older men. Freud was gross and predatory, but maybe that's why he knew some of this stuff I swear