“Unstable sense of self" - Mis-diagnosis - Positionality - Co-occurring - Twisted mind
Distorted Sense of Self - The Misdiagnosis of Nike Baneberry
Two drawings are superimposed over each other to create a transparent view, each showing a different perspective of the same bedroom which is filled with sensory design. A cupboard of things is open, a ladder scales the adjacent wall, climbing-holds scurry up towards a bunk bed not in view. The two different perspectives are visible at the same time, intersecting each other. This drawing is a representation of how the same symptoms can lead to different diagnosis. Many people who are Autistic are also genderqueer and trans, and also have higher chances of chronic illness like Ehlers Danlos syndrome and Fibromyalgia or OCD - which from my lived experience seem deeply intertwined. What might look like Borderline Personality Disorder might just be deep rage at the machine. We have to design spaces that are responsive to our most liberatory expressions, not as tools to contain and control our undesirable, loud, chaotic, messy selves.
