“They referred to one of many shoppers as a BPD c**t”: uncomfortable narratives of borderline persona dysfunction

As readers of my earlier contributions to the woodlands will know, I get vexed once we hear about individuals who have lived via traumatic experiences described as having a ‘persona dysfunction’. There may be usually a way that that is needed to ensure that folks to be helped (regardless of the absence of any proof…

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“Life-changing”: adults receiving an autism prognosis after BPD (mis)prognosis

Many autistic adults face extra and vital limitations to prognosis, with detrimental impacts. Autistic adults who had been undiagnosed in childhood have reported a spread of destructive experiences related to their missed prognosis, together with social isolation, diminished self-understanding, and insufficient psychological healthcare (Huang Y. et al, 2020; Leedham A. et al, 2020). Nonetheless, for…

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