Can we use our diagnosis as an “excuse”

I was diagnosed with bipolar affective disorder in 1999 and at that time was behaving dreadfully. I won’t go into detail as it may be triggering but I really was a nasty, cruel and unpleasant person. I was though very ill and particularly so when in mixed psychotic/depressive episodes. Coming out of these I always looked back with guilt and remorse and never have and never will forgive myself or use my dx as an excuse. The bipolar btw hasn’t presented for many years but that is another story, and the behaviours of cruelty have completely stopped  

But is this right? to not allow myself any slack?  I really am very conflicted these days. 

So becoming part of the wider autism community recently I’ve found quite a lot of people using their autism diagnosis as an excuse for bad or cruel behaviour, the “meltdowns” being only one example, and here in this community as an excuse for minority-on-minority judgementalism

Im not being deliberately provocative but genuinely trying to understand and if necessary adjust my thinking. Your own perspectives on this will help me

Thanks

E (she/her)

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  • So becoming part of the wider autism community recently I’ve found quite a lot of people using their autism diagnosis as an excuse for bad or cruel behaviour, the “meltdowns” being only one example,

    Well in my case my meltdowns are diagnostically referred to as being Psychogenic Non Epileptiform Seizures (PNES) ~ as basically means stress induced seizures, which is the reason I used to more often have ‘grand-mall’ (large-scale) room-wrecking-body-banging ‘episodes’, but now with stress management routines, a regulated activity schedule and medically prescribed and medically agreed upon alternative medications ~ I have the ‘petite-mall’ (small-scale) variety involving rapid-eye-movements at most more generally.

    So basically as such, meltdowns or seizures are not 'bad behaviour' but rather overwhelming behaviourisms that tend to be extremely difficult to manage or cope with, even with determined perseverance involving adequate and appropriate assistance.


    and here in this community as an excuse for minority-on-minority judgementalism

    Rather than being appropriately facilitated, identified and affirmed as being neurologically divergent individuals ~ most autistic people developmentally experience and or live in fear of being aggressively or also violently ostracised, ridiculed and negated ~ because of not being or behaving in neurologically typical ways.

    Due to the traumatic disassociation of being or experiencing others being aggressively or also violently ‘othered’ ~ some become somewhat more one-sided in their view of multidimensional considerations, just as most people do to some degree when they are particularly upset or angry ~ as which can occlude their perception of reasoned discussions about integrity or equality as being instead for them obstructive arguments against which.

    One of the classic examples of this is people demanding the freedom of expression when instead they want to express impositions against others ~ sexually, politically and or religiously etcetera ~ with little or no concept that the freedom of expression is very much like having a driving licence and having to drive safely, rather than in any way offensively.

    The main problems with traumatic disassociation is the unconscious, subconscious or preconscious tendency for traumatic re-associations to compulsively occur ~ as has been exemplified by all revolutions where the poor violently oppress the rich after the rich have violently oppressed the poor ~ on account of collectively sharing in and enforcing inferior, mediocre and superior character-role pretences ~ as according to the 'survival of the elitist delusion'.

    The thing with inferiority complexes as being delusional states of mind, is that they can only exist whilst the rational, sentimental, communicational and emotional sensibilities are to a greater extent disempowered; otherwise the imaginal, reproductional and sensational sensibilities cannot be further empowered to embody delusional imaginings, hence progressive reasoning is required to facilitate an increasing sense of balanced sensibility.


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  • So becoming part of the wider autism community recently I’ve found quite a lot of people using their autism diagnosis as an excuse for bad or cruel behaviour, the “meltdowns” being only one example,

    Well in my case my meltdowns are diagnostically referred to as being Psychogenic Non Epileptiform Seizures (PNES) ~ as basically means stress induced seizures, which is the reason I used to more often have ‘grand-mall’ (large-scale) room-wrecking-body-banging ‘episodes’, but now with stress management routines, a regulated activity schedule and medically prescribed and medically agreed upon alternative medications ~ I have the ‘petite-mall’ (small-scale) variety involving rapid-eye-movements at most more generally.

    So basically as such, meltdowns or seizures are not 'bad behaviour' but rather overwhelming behaviourisms that tend to be extremely difficult to manage or cope with, even with determined perseverance involving adequate and appropriate assistance.


    and here in this community as an excuse for minority-on-minority judgementalism

    Rather than being appropriately facilitated, identified and affirmed as being neurologically divergent individuals ~ most autistic people developmentally experience and or live in fear of being aggressively or also violently ostracised, ridiculed and negated ~ because of not being or behaving in neurologically typical ways.

    Due to the traumatic disassociation of being or experiencing others being aggressively or also violently ‘othered’ ~ some become somewhat more one-sided in their view of multidimensional considerations, just as most people do to some degree when they are particularly upset or angry ~ as which can occlude their perception of reasoned discussions about integrity or equality as being instead for them obstructive arguments against which.

    One of the classic examples of this is people demanding the freedom of expression when instead they want to express impositions against others ~ sexually, politically and or religiously etcetera ~ with little or no concept that the freedom of expression is very much like having a driving licence and having to drive safely, rather than in any way offensively.

    The main problems with traumatic disassociation is the unconscious, subconscious or preconscious tendency for traumatic re-associations to compulsively occur ~ as has been exemplified by all revolutions where the poor violently oppress the rich after the rich have violently oppressed the poor ~ on account of collectively sharing in and enforcing inferior, mediocre and superior character-role pretences ~ as according to the 'survival of the elitist delusion'.

    The thing with inferiority complexes as being delusional states of mind, is that they can only exist whilst the rational, sentimental, communicational and emotional sensibilities are to a greater extent disempowered; otherwise the imaginal, reproductional and sensational sensibilities cannot be further empowered to embody delusional imaginings, hence progressive reasoning is required to facilitate an increasing sense of balanced sensibility.


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