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Feb 17 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I have a question...

Background:
A year or so ago a person diagnosed with BPD told me what it was like, and I was shocked and filled with compassion at the immensity of the experience.
Then, months later, having forgotten about that a bit, I heard someone with temporal lobe epilepsy describe it and I was similarly shocked.
Today I realised that they described the same thing, so I googled to see what the difference is.

OK, over to you. Open mic if you have had one of these diagnoses. I am not even sure how to formulate the question here.
PS: By BPD, I meant Borderline Personality Disorder.

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Also, I can't quite explain why in great detail right now, but you're an ableist cow.

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Thank goodness my friends and I will never ever have to be in the same room as you. We'd be redefining 'appropriate'.
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