Oh no, some scientists studied a common phenomonon and gave it a big-wordy name! Next they’ll probably study the root causes and test hypotheses for treatment under scientifically rigorous conditions! Oh the horror! Why, in my day, we just whacked the kid with a wooden spoon so they’d eat their four servings of dairy and fruit juice and go get a job they don’t deserve to be paid for.
Sounds like a lot of words just to say someone doesn’t like certain foods.
Sometimes more words are needed because it’s more than just someone doesn’t like certain foods.
I see your point but have you ever visited fakedisordercringe on Reddit? Because that’s a result of pathologising everything.
No, I never saw that sub when I was over there, but I’d wager my comment would apply equally well to anything posted there. These kids today with their words for problems we ignored.
ARFID is a very real phenomenon that is staggeringly common, and yet we have very little information on the causes or fixes for it. Treating it like the kid is just being “picky” leads to food avoidance, binge eating, obesity, and eating disorders. “Just stop being picky” didn’t work, and was a criminal neglect of duty of care among parents and doctors.
Look - I’ve been diagnosed with BPD but the people on that sub claim to have DID and be a “system” with over 1000 personalities. Those personalities, funnily enough, are anime characters fro the latest animes they watched.
You really think they’re real?
I don’t know anything about that. I know there are people who pretend to have disorders, in fact it’s a disorder itself: Munchausen syndrome. But just because people fake an illness does not mean that the illness doesn’t exist, or that nobody has it.
I’m sure DID does exist. However, I think people with a genuine diagnosis don’t waste time taking video of themselves slipping into an alter for the camera.
Funny how I’ve never seen videos of schizophrenics losing their shit? Maybe cos mental illness isn’t a fucking fashion statement you pick yourself and make quirky videos about.
You mean the sub where 99% of the time they’re either bullying people with real disorders or actual children. Yeah such a cool place full of normal people.
You think the 14yo claiming to be a “system” of 1000 identities is really suffering DID? Really?
You think it’s ok to bully a kid about it
Of course not. I find the sub fascinating and funny but I think they’re fakers.
However, I wouldn’t comment or seek them out to make fun of them.
That’s great
Well others do. On that sub. So. Cool crowd to hang out with.
Also just. People with ACTUAL disorders get harassed by people on that sub. Basically what it does is it sends hatemobs at disabled people or people with mental health challenges, or literal children.
Just so they can feel better about themselves collectively. It’s deranged. Some real gamergate shit
I don’t think anyone who appears in that sub is medically diagnosed. In fact quite the opposite - most seem to brag about self-diagnosis and being dropped by medical professionals after arguments.
People with DID can have any number of alters. Jeni Hayes had ~2500. Don’t assume something doesn’t happen just because you’ve only heard about it happening from TikTok.
Aaah yes, so that means all these SELF-diagnosed people who claim to have 2000 alters are all 100% real.
All the quirky little acts they do for the camera aren’t an act!! They really DO become their favourite anime characters!!
Some even post clips of their sob stories trying to get diagnosed and being let go by the doctor/therapist.
That Goodboy needs a steady diet of tendies and dewie to maintain his robust athletic frame! If he strays from his diet he may drop below 300lbs and become dangerously underweight!!!
If it wasn’t for anon inventing shit, we wouldn’t have anon inventing shit.
That’s a lot of words for ‘I’m privileged with good health and can’t empathize with people going through mental and physical illnesses’.
I don’t have AFRID, but I know people who do. Your delusional if you think it’s a choice and they can just decide to eat other things without wanting to throw up
This is this the same as telling people with depression to ‘just be happy’ or telling people with anxiety to ‘just calm down’. There is no ‘just eat the food’ with AFRID. The whole point is that they can’t.
Literally the same American MFs when they have to “just” eat literally any part of an animal other than muscle tissue from cow, pig, or fowl: 😭
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