One of the things that makes me angery about the current year discussion on troonery is that like, if I were a shrink and a patient came into my practice with this level of hoarding, I'd pull a new notebook off the shelf and tell my secretary to book this man out 3x a week for the next 6 months.
I dunno if this is a codeable diagnosis in the DSM or just a Very Interesting Thing Kevin is doing, but my god.
This is not normal chick shit. This is not normal anybody shit.
Like there are women who collect baby dolls like this, and other women think it's very unsettling. But instead it's plastic toy cars that turn into robots and back. TRANSFORMING is right there in the name.
My brain is broken by this.
Psychfag Lowdown Explaining Hoarding Disorder & Lolcows
People who feel the need to collect at this level are often coping. There's people who do it with shopping "retail therapy" etc. There's people who do it to less destructive amounts even if its still overall bad or as least not helpful. I feel we have all met someone who just really likes buying shit a bit too much even if they're not a hoarder. The difference is their behavior isn't ruining their lives even if its not helping it. They have control over their consoom and have a life. But it's a dopamine boost. It's also a form of taking control. You can control what you buy and when you do.
So what's the difference between a hoarder and seriously autistic collector? The mindset. A collector even if they're INSANE about it usually keeps their shit tidy, they have a life, social skills, they're not just "lost in the hoard" even if they make money off of their obsessive hobby. They may be unwilling to part with collections but do not become wildly unreasonable about it if other things get in the way. The sickest hoarders would rather die than have their piles taken or be homeless than give up anything. Collectors also don't harmfully copium with buying stuff and won't financially seppuku with their consooom. Find your most autistic Warhammer , Gunpla, and Anime figure collectors and their setups/lives and you'll see what I mean. Even if they don't engage in the art forms or games and just like plastic crack, they have standards to what they do and don't just blindly BUY. Even if they're messy people, their things are respectively taken care of and items are with respect (not tossed around randomly).
For hoarders, there's a few types of hoarders and many hoarders often have OCD
traits. OCD isn't always just neatness or hypochondriac. It can be like an obsessive autism to where you cannot stop thinking about it no matter what and then must use a behavior to assuage anxiety. The OCD part of OCD is that you have an anxiety or uncomfortable feeling. You need something to soothe it. You do the behavior. You feel better. But then you feel anxiety again. You do the behavior. It doesn't feel as good. You do it again. Okay that's better. Then you feel good.... Eventually you become desensitized to the behavior which is why OCD people often have a set number of times they do things for it to feel "correct". I'm not saying Kevin has OCD btw, I'm saying that he is treating his mental health consooming like how an OCD person would by buying and buying hoping to feel better. Same thing with how he uses coom.
Edit for clarity: He COULD have this form of hoarding OCD because it lines up but I'm personally always finicky on throwing out probable DSM diagnoses for cows because:
- People take labeling theory too seriously (see: twitter troons and people who misinterpreted Disassociative Identity Disorder as "plural" )
- Every person is an individual and expresses their retardation somewhat uniquely so blanketed diagnoses is not helpful for multi-diagnostic cases imo.
- I'm not his govt appointed mental health wrangler so I cannot diagnose anyone.
- IMO Diagnosises are basically shit we have to put on paper so the insurance company doesn't get their jimmies rustled and patients can get needed their therapy and pills.
As for Hoarders there's two main types. Organized and Disorganized. Surprisingly Kevo is the Organized hoarder type and if you've seen an episode of Hoarders you will agree with me here because they usually show the most shitty of disorganized types.
Organized hoarding: like items are together even if it's on massive shelves or disheveled or somewhat dirty. Some of our other lolcows are here like Trisha Paytas (she hoards clothes) and CWC (he borders on here only because he just had his own room for his toys.)
Disorganized hoarding: trash, lots of trash, literal garbage, shit everywhere. You hoard for sake of hoarding and don't even have a particular item you like. Nothing is together or makes sense and all rooms bleed together. Barb Chandler was decaying into this section as animals just shit on the floor etc. Drachenlord is also here because all rooms of his house aside from one are just bags of trash.
Sadly a dumpster truck backing to the house isn't the solution for any of these people as they have to be able to face their anxiety around their consoom behaviors and REPLACE it with healthy behaviors. You can't just "take away" naughty behaviors and leave someone to deal. You have to give them something else. For example an easy one for overeating is using a stick of gum instead of fridge raiding when you want a snack. For Kevin, it would likely be journaling (not online sadly for us) about his anxious thoughts and what to do with it (or playing with his toys he already has) instead of e-begging or consooming. He would also have to potentially unfollow #triggering things like Hasbro if he can't keep his shit together.
His weird relationship to toys as an adult is basically something found in autistic scrotes almost exclusively (this is from my observations alone). When enabled, they have a childish view of money and life which only is fueled by their autism. Penny enables him hardcore because thats part of Penny's schtick as the "provider complex".
He's not gonna change, sadly. But here's a look into how he uses hoarding and why cows hoard.
