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Ever since I came to this realization, I have really identified strongly with Maud Pie, since I suffer from a lot of the same symptoms (with the added complication that the voices constantly tell me I’m worthless and added paranoia).
I have the same problem as her making friends because people mistake my demeanor for disinterest even when I’m desperately trying. It’s a very lonely existence, especially when television and movies have programmed people to fear people with schizophrenia as some kind of psychopath or monster, so I can’t explain to people in real life that this is why I do not react in the way they expect. If I do, they may fear or avoid me for no reason, or tell other people who will then not even give me a chance to explain. Worse, I might end up as a victim of violence due to some ‘normal’ person’s misunderstanding.
I guess I just want to draw people’s attention to this. If you know someone that is flat, emotionless, and outcast, try to give them a chance and don’t assume they dislike you. Like Maud, if they are choosing to hang around you and trying to do things with you, they might be desperately trying to find a friend. If they aren’t doing that, it may just be because they gave up trying. Just a single friend willing to sit with me would have made such a difference in my life.
Screenshot on the left from >>575785
I have the same problem as her making friends because people mistake my demeanor for disinterest even when I’m desperately trying. It’s a very lonely existence, especially when television and movies have programmed people to fear people with schizophrenia as some kind of psychopath or monster, so I can’t explain to people in real life that this is why I do not react in the way they expect. If I do, they may fear or avoid me for no reason, or tell other people who will then not even give me a chance to explain. Worse, I might end up as a victim of violence due to some ‘normal’ person’s misunderstanding.
I guess I just want to draw people’s attention to this. If you know someone that is flat, emotionless, and outcast, try to give them a chance and don’t assume they dislike you. Like Maud, if they are choosing to hang around you and trying to do things with you, they might be desperately trying to find a friend. If they aren’t doing that, it may just be because they gave up trying. Just a single friend willing to sit with me would have made such a difference in my life.
Screenshot on the left from >>575785
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Hey, don’t beat yourself up over it, I got the point in the end.
@GlacierFrostclaw
She can have both, she is avery interesting character, I hope we’ll get to see her being explored little bit more in S9.
Maybe she could be in G5? Please? I need to find out more about this curious pony
Which was my primary point, but I guess I don’t excel at communications and most people took it the wrong way. Another stupid attempt at acceptance down the toilet I guess.
And while this could be it I kind of like to think she, if anything, has alexithymia. As said on wikipedia “The core characteristics of alexithymia are marked dysfunction in emotional awareness, social attachment, and interpersonal relating.”
that said it is more likely they just found it a good yin and yang thing for maud and pinkie as siblings more than anything else. After all if you look hard enough you can assign almost anyone so many mental health things. For example big mac would be said to have a poverty of speech, but so what? ><
It is definitely simplified but still more accurate than the hollywood schizophrenic with overly detailed and personified hallucinations.
About boulder i can say she talk with him, because without anyone to talk she could of course geting… well.. insane
Yes, flat affect is also seen in autism so I guess it depends on her reasons which can’t be known. Though it’s also important to note that believing the voices are real isn’t a requirement or even the usual. I’ve talked back to voices I knew weren’t real.
On the other hand, one can argue that hearing a nice voice isn’t a problem so might not be considered a ‘symptom’ even if it occurs. Maybe she’s meant to be an combination that many can identify with, in which case I can see why they wouldn’t specify, but it still helps me to identify with her.
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I don’t think Maud has any actual hallucinations, I do not think she actually believes Boulder is alive. I saw it more as her being either playful or being it a coping mechanism for her, keep in mind that it is stated that she has always been alone and the only thing she had was rocks.
Her blutness, honesty, obession with one specific object, monotone voice, failure to pick up sarcasm; and more, all sound like autism symptoms to me.
But, I do not meant to ruin the message of this post. Maud is a very interesting and motivating character, as she is an outcast and a little weird, but the show never tells her that she is wrong or that she should change, it is never even up for a question. Maud is Maud and we wouldn’t want her in any different way.
That is what blunted/flat affect is, having emotions but being unable to display them. It’s also a component of several other disorders, I imagine.
When I said apathy, I referred more to giving up and leaving when it becomes obvious that friendship is too difficult, as she did twice in the show. I guess that wasn’t self-explanatory after all. Maybe I should have put that lower in the list or excluded it so people wouldn’t see it first and stop reading the rest.
Yes, it’s possible she has AspeRger’s Syndrome, but that doesn’t include hallucinations. I understand I’m not a psychiatrist, but I am basing this on my own diagnosis and I act like her in social situations, so it’s not a shot in the dark either.
But yes, this plea to treat people with mental illness with respect does also apply to people with that. Glad to see you didn’t completely miss the point.
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Is that what it’s called?
Huh, good to know
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