glad it gave you some peace of mind!
Tag: ableism
so like… can we please stop acting like mentally ill people are always the abusive one in the relationship, or thst mentally ill people are inherently abusive, or that their illness is negatively affecting/hurting the abled person theyre with more than them.
like when did good ideas like “mental illness isnt an excuse to be abusive” quickly become “mentally ill people are all abusive,” and “i couldnt be with a mentally ill person, theyd abuse me”
when did “abuse is never okay” become “ableism is okay”
why are So Many practitioners/teachers of psychology and related fields neurotypical. you wanna talk fetishizing lets talk how many people get into psychology just because my Brain Problems are Fascinating
its funny bcs when the leading expert on bpd admitted that she has bpd other psychiatrists who are neurotypical suddenly became dedicated to discrediting her when previously they had agreed with her like thats how fuckin deep ableism goes
Her name is Marcia Linehan, the therapy program she designed for BPD is called dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) and is incredibly innovative and immensely helpful to so many people and is used to treat a variety of mental illnesses aside from BPD, and all of that is 100% accurate, other folks in the field started treating her like absolute shit after she “came out.”
*quiet froth*
I had no idea she faced discrimination and backlash after revealing she had bpd. I can’t say I’m surprised.
Side note: I’ve been going through DBT since last September and the leaps and bounds of recovery I’ve made are staggering. It’s the frontline treatment of the condition now. Abled people need to stop silencing us.
Stating that you have mental illness/any form of ND is considered a “kiss of death” on an application to psych grad programs.
How to get rid of any illness
-douche with green tea
-eat an entire jar of coconut oil everyday
-cut gluten,eggs,dairy,MSGs, meats, oxygen, and sugar out of your diet
-never stop doing yoga, you have to do it every second of your life. Sleep in downward dog, shower in warrior position, walk on your hands
-shove kale up your ass
And last, but not least
– just be happy all the time. You know, the only real disability in life is a bad attitude
Remember a few years ago how some autistic kid (like 14 years old) was like “Link is mute like me!” and NTs were obsessed with ‘disproving’ their headcanon and using technical definitions of outdated terms and saying that he couldn’t have mutism and that the headcanons were just “SJW bullshit”
and now in the latest Zelda, we get it confirmed that Link does indeed have selective mutism due to trauma and anxiety
because I will never fucking forget
me at family gatherings
#no guys you don’t understand #this is super important #mental health in korea is literally awful #you can lose your job because you’re being treated for depression #the fact that this big name star is opening up about it is huuuge #so thank you gong yoo
the screenshots here are from near the end of the interview, which i think makes it even worse, because the interviewer listened to everything he’d said and still didn’t treat it very seriously. there are other parts where she seems very smart and intuitive, but then other times he’d say something like “i hate myself to death and feel like i’m an empty shell” and she’d just laugh and move on while i’m just like !!!
i was really impressed by how open he is about it though, even the “ugly” symptoms that aren’t really talked about normally — like how he said he used to lock himself in his apartment alone and drink and “bang on the walls” because he didn’t know how else to cope with all the pain he was in, and he even mentions hurting himself and talks about scars and refers to himself as a “masochist” and says a coworker once referred to him as “someone constantly trying to hurt himself.” the fact that he was able to talk about all this so openly, despite the reaction he got, was so impressive and amazing to me
it’s really heartbreaking though because he’s obviously never had the support he needs — at one point he mentions that the first person he ever opened up to about all the pain he was in (back in his mid-20s, when he says it was much worse) was a director who was considering hiring him, and he later found out that that director had told people she thought “someone like that” would be “too difficult” to work with, and it caused this rumor/pre-conceived notion about him to spread that affected the way his coworkers treated him. now that he’s famous and has had other work he’s literally known for how charming and nice he is to everyone, but at that point his coworkers all thought he was moody, pretentious, and rude and always avoided him on set because of this, all because he opened up about his severe depression to the wrong person
a cool fun fact: headcanoning someone as ace is not “desexualizing” them
my orientation does not desexualize or infantalize me
stop talking down to ace people and telling us that we’re desexualized versions of real people
Addition: If you’re white and you want to talk down to a PoC about how aspec headcanons are racist because they “desexualize PoC”, consider the following:
Stay in your lane and keep your fucking mouth shut
Ace memes: harmless self positivity that everyone calls cringey or embarrassing
Aphobe memes: literally just mocking ace and/or ND/disabled people, over and over
Crytyping jokes are ableist
Sincerely someone autistic/mentally ill who relies on autocorrect to avoid something like crytyping (which doesn’t always work)
crr y t typping jok e s ar e aable ist
ssi ;;ncere lyy som e one aut istt ,, tic /// ment a l y ill w ho rel ies onnnautos corr ect tto avvoidd s,ometh ing liek cryty ping (wh ich dooessn t allways worrk)
“We only make these jokes to make fun of abusers!” Really? Then what the fuck is this? This is literally being done right here right now to make fun of a neurodivergent person who isn’t doing anything wrong. Y’all care about a joke more than actual people. Being mentally ill yourself does not give you a pass to be an asshole to other mentally ill people and Idk why it’s so hard for y’all to leave someone alone when they aren’t doing anything wrong.
Sincerely, another neurodivergent “cry typer” with nerve damage and panic disorder.
this is white lol
I’m a fucking person of color but nice fucking try, asshole.
Look at all the ableism in the notes of this post. It’s fucking disgusting and full of hypocrites. “We only do it to make fun of abusers” then why the fuck are multiple people in the notes using it to make fun of op? And why are y’all not creative enough to make up different ways to make fun of abusers that can’t/won’t be used against innocent neurodivergent people? Block every one of the ableist assholes in the notes.
I’m gonna tag people to help boost this so more people that are hurt by these jokes can block the people being assholes in the notes and that way they don’t become victims of them like OP did. @featherinmycapandcheese @vaspider @kin-against-aphobes @azzy-against-aphobes @hate-police @birobotic @aphobehatingcharacteroftheday @aphobephobe
THIS is the bullshit I talk about. If y’all care so damn much about being able to mock people that treatment of people like this is unimportant at all, you need to step back and reevaluate. Dealing with racism doesn’t require you to be ableist, its doesn’t mean you need to defend or enable ableism, and it doesn’t need to make light of ableism by claiming racism is a bigger problem and that all innocent ND people who object are obviously racist. Get a fucking grip and start treating ND and disabled people like PEOPLE. I know y’all aren’t used to having to treat us with respect, but guess what: the existence of racist ND people doesn’t entitle you to ableism. Grow the fuck up.
Seriously, if you make fun of “crytyping” unfollow me. Go away.
please go through the notes and block the people who not only think it’s funny to mock neurodiverse and mentally ill people, but who are outing themselves as people who refuse to respect boundaries by jumping on this thread to do that
It is 2016 and people still think other/fictionkin are somehow claiming other people’s art as their own by tagging #kin or #me
The most ironic thing about this is that oftentimes your kin followers are your biggest fans. They love the way you draw them. They know you don’t draw this character FOR THEM. They know that. But they like it, they like how you interpret the character and the way you draw them. The people that you’re trying to push away are the same ones that encourage and support you the most.
One last thing. The whole “don’t tag as kin or me” thing was started BY OTHERKIN FOR OTHERKIN. It was for people who aren’t comfortable with doubles. That’s what that is. Nonkin artists who put this disclaimer on everything they draw, or put it in their blog description, just hate mentally ill people doing things they think is weird.
whitemanning critical 