#mental ilness

So if you know/knew someone with schizophrenia or psychosis and you want to tell their story for them, please consider these things: Would they be alright with me sharing this publicly? Does this add anything meaningful to the discussion? Am I speaking over people who have experienced schizophrenia or psychosis themselves? Am I using this as a justification to generalize a group of people?

seeing successful disabled people is so insanely important, and not just with money, but with a good quality of life, healthy relationships, fulfilling hobbies, ect. like having one person in a wheel chair is progress, but its not enough. there needs to be people who need low support, medium support, and high support. Their needs to be people who are chronically ill but still athletes in their own way. their needs to be people who are neurodivergent but treated and respected the same as everyone else. their needs to be people who have had mental health struggles that are not aesthetic and are still seen as helpful members of society. i cannot emphasize enough how important it is to see people living good lives that are like you. one person with sh scars is not enough, one person who is autistic is not enough, one person with POTS isn't enough because these conditions all present so much differently depending on the person. Some people with POTS can run marathons and some need wheel chairs, some autistic people can handle sensory things better than social rules and vise versa. both kinds of representation is so insanely important. its arguably ableist to say that all disabled people are so similar, even among those with the same/similar conditions, that a few people are enough representation for them as a whole community

people when the condition affects your hygiene negatively: ew.. they're so gross... thats disgusting i feel so bad for the people who have to deal with that... this is definitely a moral failing and a sign of a weird bad person