Why is this not the official /lit/ handbook yet?
I'm about halfway through it and it basically explains a lot of this board's behavior.
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>>8029458
bump
Reported for ableism.
>>8029537
isn't this the opposite of ableism?
>>8029559
everything and its opposite may be *the* case
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>>8029422
bumpity bump bump
>>8029851
Why you dumb fuck?
>>8029422
I have a genuine fear that I might be autistic. I would rather be a schizophrenic or some other type of mentally ill(which is more likely) than be autistic.
You're on 4chan bucko
This place was practically made for spergs and schizos
i had a psychologist say that might be either psychotic or have aspergers, then i stopped going to our appointments
>>8029877
this. My psychologist told me my possibilities were either Antisocial personality disorder, psychosis, or Aspergers, I stopped seeing him because he told me I should look into the Zeitgeist and he started asking me if I thought about killing people and he started trying to convince me to join the military so I just assumed he was crazier than I was.
>psychology class
>prof talking about mental disorders
>tfw every now and then she mentions a symptom that I have
It's nothing actually dangerous and never too concentrated on one specific disorder (I have one symptom of OCD and one symptom of autism, for example), but it's enough to unnerve me and excite me.
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>>8029895
Why are we fucked up like this, anons?
>psychoanalytic
Is this good OP? I want to read something about autism and I'll read this if it isn't crackpot shit.
I'm currently writing a novel called The Lurker in which an autistic man who watches pornography a great deal begins dating a girl who he does not have sex with but rather watches her have sex with other men, and otherwise lives his life as a blank observer, occasionally experiencing periods of intense and obsessive investment in life before retreating again to detached perspective. He lives his life according to a strict routine in which the slightest deviation causes him great distress and frustration. He is terrified of diseases and infection and eventually becomes involved (shortly after suddenly feeling ill and angry while watching his girlfriend being gangbanged by several black men) in far right-wing ideology, eventually killing a black man who he feels is mocking him despite it being clear that the guy is just casually joking around with him while the protagonist is prevented from walking home along his usual route by an afro-caribean street parade.
>>8029422
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>>8029982
yeah it's p good. Frances Tustin is still basically the most (only) down-to-earth child analyst you can read.
>>8030003
sounds interesting anon, will you post some of it?
i dunno my psychotherapist said that i likely simply have dysthymia (i went to her when i got a double depression) but i believe she suspected that i might be bipolar or something like that
either way a year of anti-depressants helped and i still wonder if i shouldn't have stopped taking them
dysthymia emotionally isn't bad, it's like to be in an eternal bleak autumn day of mood... it's all the intrusive thoughts and apathy, if not for them i wouldn't care
>>8029422
LMAO thanks op. I like you. We could totally be friends.
>>8030632
here's the chain of verbiage they use if you keep pressing them:
depression (dysthymia) -> OCD -> bipolar -> autism
People who are "depressed" are really obsessed with something understimulating, and people with OCD (intrusive thoughts) are really mild cases of bipolar, and bipolar disorder is essentially autism (two different kinds of protective shells) if you get down to it.
Everything blends together, anon, it's best not to press psychotherapists about labels, especially analysts. They will run you around and they will never use "big" words schizophrenia or psychosis because they tend to scare patients away.
>>8029915
Sounds like you have mental retardation.
>>8029915
>>psychology class
>>prof talking about mental disorders
>>tfw every now and then she mentions a symptom that I have
I remember going to the British Museum one
day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a
touch--hay fever, I fancy it was. I got down the book, and read all I
came to read; and then, in an unthinking moment, I idly turned the
leaves, and began to indolently study diseases, generally. I forget
which was the first distemper I plunged into--some fearful, devastating
scourge, I know--and, before I had glanced half down the list of
"premonitory symptoms," it was borne in upon me that I had fairly got it.
I sat for awhile, frozen with horror; and then, in the listlessness of
despair, I again turned over the pages. I came to typhoid fever--read
the symptoms--discovered that I had typhoid fever, must have had it for
months without knowing it--wondered what else I had got; turned up St.
Vitus's Dance--found, as I expected, that I had that too,--began to get
interested in my case, and determined to sift it to the bottom, and so
started alphabetically--read up ague, and learnt that I was sickening for
it, and that the acute stage would commence in about another fortnight.
Bright's disease, I was relieved to find, I had only in a modified form,
and, so far as that was concerned, I might live for years. Cholera I
had, with severe complications; and diphtheria I seemed to have been born
with. I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the
only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.
I felt rather hurt about this at first; it seemed somehow to be a sort of
slight. Why hadn't I got housemaid's knee? Why this invidious
reservation?
>>8030014
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>>8029422
bump
Ah, this is the time when Aussie shitposting is at its peak.
It's kind of like a plastic garbage island washing ashore.
>>8032260
you wish you had our post charisma cunt
