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A BPD label ≠ don’t listen
A BPD label ≠ downplay trauma
A BPD label ≠ unreliable narrator
A BPD label ≠ protect yourself
A BPD label ≠ won’t die by suicide
A BPD label ≠ treatment won’t work
#TraumaNotPD #AutismNotPD #ADHDNotPD #BipolarNotPD #PMDDNotPD
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The last part of this was why when I am suicidal I feel like it’ll never end making me even more suicidal.
Means autistic people stay suicidal for longer and it feels overwhelming.
This is from @neuro_lou
#AutismNotPD
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My brain just thought (dangerous) that I wonder do a lot of women get BPD diagnosis instead of autism or just trauma because we are likeable.
And autism is seen stereotypically as people who are anti social. But BPD is seen as charming 🙄
#TraumaNotPD
#AutismNotPD
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This monotropic thinking causes so many arguments between my husband and I.
my mum always said I don’t listen. As does my husband.
But I literally can’t listen when in flow or daydreaming.
I find it frustrating but managers love my concentration #Monotropism #AutismNotPD
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Mar 17
This list, dating back 20 yrs, is by no means exhaustive. Please educate yourself. If any survivors are reading this & want to share your own writing, please feel free to link it here.
#HumanNotPD
#TraumaNotPD
#AutismNotPD
#ADHDnotPD
#LGBTnotPD
#PDinTheBin
#HarmedByPDlabel
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Mar 16
@ZacharyGrinDPT if you want to read more about what happened to Zoe, and educate yourself on why/how the personality disorder label can be harmful to autistic people, I live tweeted her inquest, you're welcome to read it here:
#JusticeForZoe
#AutismNotPD
13 Apr 2022
🧵 Zoe's Inquest: A collection of threads detailing Zoe's inquest, day by day.
Content warning: While precautions have been taken in terms of not sharing graphic or particularly upsetting details, there is mention of suicide, self-harm, & iatrogenic harm.
#JusticeForZoe
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Strong agree. This diagnosis is killing autistic girls in the uk as their autism is being ignored for bpd.
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Feb 19
I once almost got cancelled on here for saying this diagnosis is a problematic diagnosis. A lot of autistic women and women with CPTSD get misdiagnosed with it, and it has ruined their lives. When people do feel the diagnosis is fitting, they deal with a lot of stigma, frequently from mental health care professionals and workers, not just from misconceptions in society. In psychiatry they frequently push the idea that someone with this diagnoses lacks empathy or is manipulative, for example. I never understood why this diagnosis was cluster B, said to be a lifelong personality disorder. The history of the diagnosis is also rooted in misogyny. So I did not want to erase or deny anyone’s personal experience with this diagnoses, but I had the opinion that it should be renamed and removed from the cluster B category. It is a bit like the diagnosis of CFS. It is created by doctors, and the stigma will forever remain because of doctors.
Ive since heard more different perspectives on it. So I am not going to say “don’t say you have that diagnosis”. I’m just curious to hear if you agree or strongly disagree with me and why?
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Exactly why the diagnosis needs to go in the bin.
#TraumaNotPD
#AutismNotPD
Feb 9
@NadiaWhittomeMP Epstein
80% of people labelled with personality disorder’ have experienced childhood abuse
100% of the people I’ve interviewed have witnessed prejudice against us by those charged with our care
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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15 Nov 2025
As soon as I got the diagnosis everything became them avoiding me.
It’s actually interesting You mention avoidant as after chemo I became fight instead of flight. Suddenly I am BPD. Maybe those with fight get BPD and flight get cptsd. Ignoring #AutismNotPD and complex trauma.
15 Nov 2025
The whole supposed difference between BPD and #cPTSD is that folk with a BPD label are a bit more up down and often disliked by professionals, and cPTSD patients have a flatter more avoidant presentation. Even forgetting construct/ethical problems with BPD, that is ridiculous.
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6 Nov 2025
Could I point out that people are now able to realise they dont have BPD because of the unpaid unappreciated labour of the survivor movement introducing #AutismNotPD #CptsdNotPD #BipolarNotPD #PMDDNotPD #ADHDNotPD at least a decade before profs who are now slowly coming on board.
6 Nov 2025
i did 2 years of group dbt and every single person i did this group dbt with has since realised they don’t actually have bpd. i’ve heard cases of someone having a meltdown the police called and she spoke on the phone for 10 mins to a doctor who slapped her with bpd!
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14 Oct 2025
Can we also tell the EUPD/BPD psychiatrists in the uk that put that diagnosis on every woman in services to
GET OVER YOURSELVES!!
#AutismNotPD #ADHDnotPD #TraumaNotPD
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TW Suicide
Zoe - like so many young autistic women - was incredibly badly let down by mental health services. It is five years today. We demand better for Zoe and countless others, known and unknown, who we hold forever in heart. #JusticeForZoe #ActuallyAutistic #AutismNotPD
ALT Sure — here’s the corrected alt text for the second infographic with quotation marks: ⸻ Alt text: A rectangular infographic with bold, colour-blocked sections and quotation marks around the full quote. The top section is red and reads: “ZOE TRIED TO HELP OTHERS. WHEN SHE NEEDED HELP, THE SYSTEM FAILED HER.” The second section is light blue and says: “Zoe helped many people with her knowledge and kind words.” The third section is orange and reads: “When she started struggling and unable to help herself she was referred to mental health,”. The fourth section is yellow and contains: “Unfortunately, due to their lack of understanding of autism and refusal to listen to her or myself, she developed complex PTSD due to the actions and inactions of the trust. She was put on the borderline personality disorder protocol without being assessed or having a diagnosis.”
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12 Jun 2025
Emotional meltdowns in disagreements is proportional to a history of not being heard rather than unstable personality structure. #TraumaNotPD #AutismNotPD #ADHDNotPD
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Emotional collapse in disagreements is proportional to a history of not being heard rather than unstable personality structure. #TraumaNotPD #AutismNotPD #ADHDNotPD
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9 Jun 2025
bench, please leave a comment or DM me over the next week. If you want the note to be in your handwriting, or you want to draw a picture, please photograph it, send it over, & I will print it out ❤️🦄🌈 #JusticeForZoe #TEWVdeaths #TEWVinCrisis #AutismNotPD #AbusedByServices
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12 Dec 2024
You stealing people’s books now as well as being a medical misogynist? #autismnotPD 😉
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“I was diagnosed as autistic in my mid-forties. This understanding has brought clarity to my life but also deep grief—it came too late to prevent years of harm. The mental health system mistook my needs for a personality flaw.” Fab article on #AutismNotPD tinyurl.com/33frdyab
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30 Nov 2024
have a look at #humannotpd, #traumanotpd #autismnotpd #adhdnotpd etc and below. It’s a movement for people to be treated as people not character assassinated with the demonstrable removal of care and cruelty the latter enables x tinyurl.com/5xskh5cj tinyurl.com/48u5hhfn
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