it is still commonplace to see people using "mental illness" as an insult, would they do the same with cancer or dementia?
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Sadly yes I have a serious bone marrow failure disease and a non-alcoholic fourth stage liver cirrhosis and people think I'm lying or attention because I'm making it up cuz I want to sit on the couch and watch TV at 60? Most people are terrified of nothingness. Death is 100% real
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It baffles me why people have these attitudes, presumably they expect never to become unwell or to die.
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In the accessibility fields we call them tabs temporarily able-bodied people. Something's going to get us in the end no matter what better to deal with it now than later in my opinion
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Idk, I can't do it, though I am constantly in my head, and burning out from frustration due to it regularly, though I decided to chill out a little, however, I am able, about it, to even be able to function at all, and not get even worse more rapidly due to stress. Anyway, I went
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off the tangent, but it seems that even ill and/or disabled people can only accept certain ways of being ill and certain actions and experiences, and expect everyone to conduct themselves in that manner, so they are also judgey.
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And I am in that "common, "mild"" illness/disability section, so I am expected to just get over myself and go to the doctor and be a good patient as they try things on me (command me to do things they don't care if I am able to, whether it retraumatizes me, etc).
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I am truly sad to say that I don't think most facilities treatments individuals work or care. But we can do that for each other it's not about us versus them anymore it's just about us and how we can be here for each other. I said this before we are the majority. By a long shot.

Mar 12, 2023 · 8:14 PM UTC

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I know, I just feel like I'm an outsider even there. There are a few kinds of "niche" communities, as I find I am not wholly understood/accommodated in any of them. Specifically, I mean that one is only for one of my conditions, the other is for the other one, and the third kind
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