greater-than-the-sword:

Honestly these mental illness posts on tumblr have passed the point of being informative. They’ve gone beyond being Relatable. They’ve even passed being validating. At this point I can’t really articulate why, but I feel like I’m being buttered up. It feels like insincere flattery; even the most innocuous posts now feel like someone is trying to curry my favor because they want something from me.

And tumblr’s ego stroking goes right to the very sensitive heart of what every person with a mental illness or disorder already feels: like they’ve been misunderstood their entire life and the real experience of being blamed for it.

But tumblr goes too far. It’s okay, tumblr understands. Nobody else will ever understand you except us. The cool kids. You’re perfect. You don’t have to ever improve yourself and all your character flaws are somebody else’s fault because you were persecuted.

In fact tumblr sometimes even goes as far as to say the only inconvenience a person with a disorder will ever experience is because of society, and the disorder itself would never affect them negatively on its own. Frankly I think that’s bullshit and if we’re going to treat the brain as an organ of the body then we need to acknowledge that impairments in its function are negative things. An injury or disease.

“Neurodivergency” is not the next stage of human evolution or whatever kind of star child people on here think it makes them which is no wonder why the discourse gets so bloody insufferable.