What can I say? I hate it when supposedly “woke” people throw disabled people under the bus. Image description: a five-by-five bingo board containing descriptions of ableist actions frequently taken by so-called liberals and/or progressives. The text is as follows. First column: Telling disabled people that ableism is less important than [-ism of choice] Calling…
Content/trigger warning: mentions of abuse and police brutality, reclaimed slur Today I want to talk about normalizing neurodivergent symptoms and traits. I mentioned in a previous post that I have experienced a metric crapload of invalidation of my mental illness. (I don’t believe I gave an amount, but the correct technical term is “metric crapload”.)…
Content/trigger warning: slurs (censored), discussion of ableism Stop trying to diagnose Trump. Stop trying to diagnose Trump. Stop trying to diagnose Trump. It is ableist, full stop. Specifically, it is saneist, unless you’re diagnosing him with a neurodevelopmental disability (or just calling him the r-slur) instead of a mental illness, in which case it is…
Content/trigger warning: saneist slurs (censored) It feels like an appropriate day to discuss a particular way in which saneism rears its ugly head. Let’s talk about microaggressions and how to deal with them. What the hell is a microaggression? Simply put, a microaggression is the casual degradation of any socially maligned group. It’s a fairly…
Content/trigger warning: description of dissociation, discussion of emotional abuse Today, I want to talk about triggers and the mocking thereof. I want to talk about triggers because I can’t do any work. I’m sitting in front of my work computer, quaking with a mixture of rage and terror, pressing myself hard into the seat for…
Content/TW: sex mention, death mention, discussion of inspiration porn, cursing On the surface, it seems a bit weird to be discussing this topic on an anti-stigma blog, because it’s about NTs actually having what they think is a positive outlook on mental illness. But at the root of stigma is NTs seeing mentally ill people…
TW: suicidal ideation, death I have a lot of feelings about the idea of “strength” when it comes to mental illness. In the wake of Carrie Fisher’s death, I have seen Internet posts exhorting people to be “strong” because it’s what Carrie would want. Unfortunately, that hurts all three of my feelings. Said feelings are…
