On the topic of KIPD
DISCLAIMER! I am not a doctor, psychologist, therapist, or any sort of medical professional. Do not take any of this as medical advice. I am simply an autistic person with a special interest in psychology and who wants to combat the spread of misinformation/disinformation. Also do not harass anyone based on the contents of this Rentry — this is not a callout. This is simply meant to be informative and educational.
Hello. I have been made aware of a Rentry claiming of a disorder called KIPD — standing for Kai IG Personality Disorder. Information can be found in the rentry that is linked in the header, but I will link it here as well so that one may also read what the Rentry says and get the full picture as to what this entails.
According to Stevenson University, to identify reliable information, it must be backed up by credible sources such as, in this case, doctors and psychologists. On the Rentry, there is only an image of the symptoms, which has the Cleaveland Clinic logo at the bottom. The Cleaveland Clinic is, by all accounts, a reputable source — it's not only an actual medical source, but it's widely regarded as one of the top hospital systems in the world. However, this image can safely be assumed to be a doctored image.
Searching up Kai Ig Personality yields no results. This includes all kinds of different variants of said search, such as "KIPD," "KIPD Disorder," "Kai IG Personality Disorder" (with and without quotes). Cleaveland Clinic didn't show up once in any searches. The only medical sources were unrelated to personality disorders in the slightest, such as Kids Pediatric Dentistry or mapping of the human genome. Even just searching up Kai IG on its own yields no medical results, only various Instagram accounts. This is odd, considering that searching every other personality disorder (besides Obsesssive Compulsive Personality Disorder, and that's likely due to the fact that it shares "Obsessive Compulsive" with the more well known Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) without the "Personality Disorder" at the end still does yield medical results. Even searching "Obsessive Compulsive" on its own does yield medical results for OCD.
Thoroughly skeptical, I decided to reverse image the graphic shown in the Rentry. Predictably, the graphic itself never appeared in any of the searches. Other graphics by Cleaveland Clinic, with similar graphics used appear in the reverse image search, leading to the reasonable inferance that the graphic found on this Rentry is doctored.
This takes this from a case where there is room to suspect there is misinformation to disinformation. According to the American Psychological Association, misinformation is simply that — information that is incorrect, but does not necessarily mean the person intended to misconstrue any facts. However, disinformation is more sinister, as it is "false information which is deliberately intended to mislead" (APA). Not only that, but the maker of the Rentry knowingly impersonated a well-known, reliable source to spread disinformation. The harm of this is the potential for others to see this and start spreading misinformation, not knowing it is false.
The intention of making this essay is not to incite harassment, nor fakeclaiming. While KIPD is not a real disorder, the symptoms are real. This is not meant to encourage any sort of harassment, witchhunting, nor fakeclaiming of others' struggles. Rather, this is was made as a sort of learning opportunity and to combat false information that spreads easily.
Further Reading about false information and how to spot and combat it
— Misinformation Red Flags from Poynter
— Fake News and Fact Checking by CSUSB Libraries
— Tackling Misinformation by the National Institutes of Health
— 8 Recommendations for Countering Misinformation by the American Psychological Association
— Combatting Misinformation Online by the World Health Organization