What y’all think ‘gifted child’ discourse is saying: I used to be special and now I’m not and that makes me sad.
What ‘gifted child’ discourse is ACTUALLY saying: The way many educational systems treat children who’ve been identified as ‘gifted’ is actively harmful in that it a. obliges kids to give up socialising with their same-age peers in favour of constantly courting the approval of adult ‘mentors’ who mostly don’t give a shit about them, b. demands that they tie their entire identity to a set of standards that’snot merely unsustainable, but intentionally so, because its unstated purpose is to weed out the ‘unworthy’ rather than to provide useful goals for self-improvement, and c. denies them opportunities to learn useful life skills in favour of training them up in an excruciatingly narrow academic skill-set that’s basically useless outside of an institutional career path that the vast majority of them will never be allowed to pursue.
A lot of people already condemn and calling this teacher a bitch/monster on the comment/reblog, not knowing the whole story. It was actually the TEACHER who drew the beautiful art on the blackboard, and the teacher is a HE, he’s an accomplished artist who was trying to teach his students about the beauty of art and however changing it is. He will draw any arts by request from his students, the students will take some pictures, and then he erases it from the board, and make new ones. He’s not a monster. He’s actually trying to spark the students’ interest in art. Funny how a simple pic without context enrages people - and the people refusing to look beyond the story.
You can follow his artworks on Twitter @hamacream where he always posts/tweet his arts.
Splitting is the term used to describe when someone with BPD’s view of something shifts from one extreme to another. For example from obsessional love to all encompassing hate.
Others sometimes call it ‘swinging’ but most use that to describe mood swings specifically.
The term is currently considered to be specific to only those with BPD/(B)PD traits.
This stems from the section in the diagnostic criteria of BPD that refers to ‘black and white thinking’ or ‘all or nothing’. It also links to frequent and extreme mood swings common of BPD.
Splitting is regarded as a coping mechanism in regards to fear of abandonment caused by BPD. Eg 'if I hate you it won’t hurt if you leave'
Those with BPD say they’ve 'split on X’ something to say when they’ve had this shift of views in regards to X thing.
Those with BPD say they’re 'splitting’ to say that they are currently experiencing a shift in views.
Most people use ‘split’ to describe when they shift from love to hate of something, but splitting is also accurate to describe shift from hate to love. Typically when someone with people says “I’ve split/am splitting on X” it means they currently have extreme hate/anger towards X.
Someone with BPD can split on people, objects, ideas, concepts and on themselves- they can split on anything.
Not all those with BPD split.
Splitting is very difficult to control and very often the person isn’t aware they are splitting.
Splitting can occur for many reasons, and to those without BPD the reasons can appear trivial but it’s important to remember that to those with BPD these experiences are very real and often very distressing.
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let’s make this a thing! I have CFS/ME and a bunch of overlapping symptoms with EDS, fibro, endo, etc, most people don’t Get it but we get one another’s diseases cause we know what it’s like #PhoenixDiseases
Transcript of tweets:
Jennifer Brea (twitter user jenbrea): If you were going to frame an umbrella term to comprise related diseases like ME, EDS, fibro, MCAS, POTS, endo (and others), what would you call it? (36 retweets, 179 likes)
Jennifer Brea:
Note: I’m not talking about a scientific umbrella. We don’t yet know enough to say that there’s an underlying biological relationship and if there is, between which diagnoses, and for what reasons.
Jennifer Brea:
We just know that these conditions tend to flock together, whether for scientific reasons or social ones (e.g., diagnostic uncertainty).
Emer Emily Neenan (twitter user e3neenan):
Phoenix Diseases, because they’re characterised by flares, we’re constantly rising from the ashes, and people think they’re not real! 🔥
