continued Thatfucker discussion

[anonniemouse]

Since we've been kicked off FFA for the week, please feel free to continue the anon discussion here. Apologies if this is a big flop - I've never made a DW community before!

The rules are vaguely the same as they are over on FFA. Please refrain from being too much of an asshole, making personal attacks, posting identifying information or engaging in transfail.

ETA: If there's information you'd like to see archived (journal/blog posts related to Andy, etc.), please dump it here and link to it from the main post for discussing.

Comments

(frozen comment) Re: ADHD is now ADD, "a form of schizophrenia" is now paranoid schizophrenia, +PTSD, -dyscalcula

[(Anonymous)]

he's controlled in the wrong ways

Can you elaborate on this at all?

(frozen comment) Re: ADHD is now ADD, "a form of schizophrenia" is now paranoid schizophrenia, +PTSD, -dyscalcula

[(Anonymous)]

It's a lot of little things, really. For one: when he's snappy and irritable, it's only with people he can get away with it with. That's not just an abuser tactic, it's also really unlikely during manic irritability.

He can stop himself from doing something, if he wants to; make a choice to have a nice, safe tantrum and then going home to mom instead of the full-blown mania carrying him along.

I guess what my underlying feeling is, is that his moods are too controlled. He's up when it's convenient; he's down when it's convenient; his 'mood' changes to punish his current victim, rather than being a force which acts upon /him/.

(frozen comment) Re: ADHD is now ADD, "a form of schizophrenia" is now paranoid schizophrenia, +PTSD, -dyscalcula

[(Anonymous)]

+1

(frozen comment) Re: ADHD is now ADD, "a form of schizophrenia" is now paranoid schizophrenia, +PTSD, -dyscalcula

[(Anonymous)]

That's exactly it. His symptoms of mental illness only come up when it's convenient for him for something. Either to punish someone who isn't towing the line, get off the hook for doing something he promised but knows he can't deliver, to deflect from criticism being directed at him from other blogs by bemoaning 'I was mentally ill then, you can't hold it against me'.

It's kind of perfect really. With Tumblr's attitude of never questioning someone's diagnosis (or self diagnosis even), anyone who does challenge him risks a dogpile if the right (wrong?) people see it.