That specific type of badbrains: a survey
@socialjusticemunchkin recently wrote:
as I suspect, there might be a specific type of badbrains that psychiatry hasn’t managed to pin down from symptoms but which has a distinct-ish etiology because “trans woman with autism, adhd, depression and/or anxiety” seems to be a very strong type
As someone who kind of fits the profile for all four illnesses but doesn’t fit any of them very neatly, and has kind of bounced around between diagnoses and ineffective treatments, this is a very appealing idea. And I know a fair number of people, many but definitely not all of them trans women, who have very similar symptoms to mine. If there were information available about this type (which seems to be very common among the rationalist diaspora), it could be very useful to the people who fall under it, but as far as I can tell there hasn’t been anything written about it.
So let’s crowdsource this! This kind of informal Tumblr survey won’t approach anything like real scientific data, but might give us a better picture of what it looks like and possibly even how it can be effectively managed. But again: Not real science! I don’t even know for sure that this is a real thing, and this survey is not going to prove that it is. This is more like a slightly scaled-up version of when you talk to a friend about common experiences with mental illness.
Who can participate: Anyone, really. Despite the quote, you absolutely do not have to be a trans woman to answer the survey. You also don’t need to be mentally ill. If you have have a significant number of traits associated with at least two of autism, ADHD, depression and anxiety, you might be an example of the thing I’m trying to understand. If you have a significant number of traits associated with just one, you’re probably not, but your data will still be useful as a point of comparison. If you don’t have a significant number of traits associated with any of the four, your answers probably won’t be especially useful to the main goals of the survey, but you’re still completely welcome to answer the questions.
All questions are optional. Many of the questions are very personal and if you answer everything in full the survey is potentially pretty long. I would much rather have a partial response than no response.
Submitting your answers: You can answer by reblogging or by filling out the Google survey here.
Thanks to @paradigm-adrift, @sigmaleph, @shkreli-for-president, and @mhd-hbd for feedback and suggestions!
0. Consent questions. (These are separate questions, so you can answer yes to some and no to others. Some of these scenarios won’t materialize; what I end up doing with the responses depends on how many I get and how people answer the consent questions.)
Are you okay with:
your response being used as part of the dataset?
your response being reblogged?
being quoted with attribution?
being quoted without attribution?
your response being included in a document of responses with attribution?
your response being included in a document of responses without attribution?1. Select all that apply:
Autism
a. I’ve been professionally diagnosed.
b. I’ve self-diagnosed.
c. I’ve seriously considered whether I have it.
d. I definitely don’t have it.
ADHD
a. I’ve been professionally diagnosed.
b. I’ve self-diagnosed.
c. I’ve seriously considered whether I have it.
d. I definitely don’t have it.
Depression
a. I’ve been professionally diagnosed.
b. I’ve self-diagnosed.
c. I’ve seriously considered whether I have it.
d. I definitely don’t have it.
Anxiety
a. I’ve been professionally diagnosed.
b. I’ve self-diagnosed.
c. I’ve seriously considered whether I have it.
d. I definitely don’t have it.2. Do you have any mental illnesses not included in that list? Which ones? (Self-diagnosed illnesses count for this question.)
3. What symptoms do you have that are associated with autism, ADHD, depression or anxiety? What symptoms associated with them don’t you have? (The DSM diagnostic criteria for all four are included under the cut, for reference. One way to answer this question is just to use the diagnostic criteria as a checklist, and indicate what you do and don’t have. But a few sentences explaining the ways in which the labels do and don’t fit would also be fine.)
4. What treatments (medication, therapy, etc.) have been effective for you in managing symptoms you didn’t want? How did they help? What treatments didn’t work?
5. Were there any lifestyle changes that you found useful?
6. Gender and assigned sex at birth. (If you feel the need to answer dishonestly to avoid outing yourself, that’s fine. Also remember that all questions are optional.)
7. Career / field of study.
8. Major personal interests. (Think like OkCupid’s “I spend a lot of time thinking about” except with less pressure to look like a normal person.)
9. Religious upbringing and current religious beliefs
10. Any other weird things about your brain that you feel like sharing. (For example, atypical patterns of romantic/sexual attraction, kinks, being otherkin, being multiple. But this is intentionally open-ended.)
(this is the end of the survey; below the cut are diagnostic criteria)
Sent a response on the form. Also, if you see this, I’d recommend you to note your sexual orientation in the answers because there’s reason to suspect that this thing is strongly associated with gynephilia (straight men/lesbians) and rare if not nonexistent with exclusive androphiles (gay men/straight women)
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alemanaxuan reblogged this from lizardywizard and added:that’s an interesting feedback about tick boxes. for anyone having the same problem i would suggest to copy the criteria...
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deathandcottoncandy reblogged this from socialjusticemunchkin and added:I sent in a response to this. (Mostly because it was interesting to fill out, and you said points of comparison were...
raiche-heavy-industries said: mild (or worse) “complex post traumatic stress disorder” (nb: quotes exist to show it’s a new thing, not just a modifier for ptsd (some are calling it “developmental trauma disorder” but it doesn’t have to be developmental)) can manifest these symptoms. things need not be terribly traumatic for mind forms from what I’ve seen, just constant with no means/knowledge of escape- raiche-heavy-industries said: I don’t usually use this account to write to things but: trans people, especially trans women and nb people who were raised as boys, often are subjected to a lot of stuff that in many ways manifests as *trauma*, but not just trauma, trauma *with no perceived means of escape from the onslaught*, for years, without knowing why people are doing it.
it might be worth looking into seeing if these “other badbrains” symptoms could perhaps be described as symptoms of cptsd
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unknought reblogged this from lizardywizard and added:Sure, I can do this! I’ll put up an alternative survey with checkbox lists for questions 2, 3, and 10* (though still...
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That is a good survey, but unfortunately and ironically my badbrains make it hard to answer because write paragraphs??...
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