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3:18am May 17, 2014

karalianne:

pinepath:

faypunk:

why are So Many practitioners/teachers of psychology and related fields neurotypical. you wanna talk fetishizing lets talk how many people get into psychology just because my Brain Problems are Fascinating

its funny bcs when the leading expert on bpd admitted that she has bpd other psychiatrists who are neurotypical suddenly became dedicated to discrediting her when previously they had agreed with her like thats how fuckin deep ableism goes

Meanwhile most of us who have ADHD don’t trust “experts” who don’t also have it. Except Russell Barkley. I don’t think he’s an ADHDer (he might be, I haven’t read enough of his stuff, just seen videos of him explaining everything perfectly OMG) but he is amazing and just knows exactly what he’s talking about.

Like, the big names in ADHD are Ed Hallowell, Sari Solden, and Patricia Quinn (and probably a few others, but these are the psychiatrists and psychologists I know for sure) and they all have ADHD.

My shrink had severe ADHD among other things, and while he wasn’t a big name in the ADHD field, he did help with research and he was well-trusted by his patients who had ADHD or other neuro-atypicality.

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