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How do you define "acceptance"?

I use PTSD Coach from the VA as well as their anger management app AIMS, Woebot for CBT/DBT and Pi for AI-assisted therapy! All are free. I also use Dimensional for fun.

Because the term is neurotypical, not neuroaverage. I understand what you are saying, but what you are saying is not relevant to what we are telling you about our lived experiences. There is benefit to learning social integration, yes. Part of social integration is being able to make yourself...

None of what you said was relative to abstract thinking, and my opposition to it had nothing to do with failing to understand what you stated. I explained very clearly why it was not a logical statement to make, and I don't actually know how to make it any clearer. The point is, you went beyond...

The term is normally applied to people with congenital neurological divergence (autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, etc). Personally, I also think that acquired neurological divergence also qualifies, because it is still neurological divergence.

Yeah, it seems to me that "everyone is divergent" is just another way to dismiss or invalidate our concerns. I can tell you from lived experience that most people are neurotypical. It's easy to convince yourself this is not the case when you have the capacity to choose your own friend group and...

I couldn't have said it better myself.

Let your sister come to you. I'll be a bit blunt, here: often times, our desire to apologize isn't coming from a place of care for the other person but rather as an attempt to soothe our own distress. Apologies are necessary, but they need to come from a place of genuine desire to make things...

There is nothing wrong with you, whether you are gay, straight or asexual. That person is behaving poorly, and crossing lines by interrogating you about your sexuality. It's none of anyone else's business what you do or don't do in the bedroom. Liking a "gay movie" doesn't make you gay. You...

Is leaving this person alone/not responding to them despite them engaging, a response to their disrespect of you? If so, I would classify this as akin to the silent treatment, which is not usually a very successful way to deal with problems in relationships. The best way you can handle their...

I agree with @Sideways because you can't really control how people react to you, but you can control how you respond to it. I think because of the nature of PTSD, and the nature of my history, it's not really possible to avoid the "omg! What? How!" aspect of people's reactions. I run a support...

I feel you. When I use the phrase I tend to refer to the very serious after effects of my brainwashing which resulted in a lot of violence and destruction. To that end I was successfully "deprogrammed" (my phone said reprogrammed and that's probably also true) but the idea that I will ever be...

I'm going to assume you're female (based on your name) and I expect that's probably some of the reason why no one told you that you were autistic. A lot of neurodivergent women do not get diagnosed until very late in life because women's mental health tends to be dismissed by the medical...

32. I dropped out of school in grade 9 for two reasons: developing PTSD and traumatic brain injury. I was indoctrinated into an armed group as a child. 16 years. My PTSD was delayed. The traumatic situation I was in ended when I was 12, and I developed PTSD at age 16. North America. It...

So she didn't tell you she has PTSD, you just assumed as much from her history of abuse? You actually don't know, so I would recommend not prescribing her behavior as such. You don't know if she has PTSD, or if she just decided her heart isn't in the relationship anymore, or she may have...

Rose and Moving gave some good tips, but I also want to say that this is a process. It's not something that has easily identifiable steps, but if there were steps, the first step is to cut off contact with him and to refuse to say anything that justifies his treatment toward you. That's step...

I celebrate Rosh Hashanah, and don't really put much stock into the secular New Years (as I strongly associate it with Christianity, even though most people who celebrate it are secular). When I hear the shofar after Yom Kippur, when we beat our fist on our chest at Ashamnu, and Kol Nidre, that...

I do, yeah. :)