as small as a world and as large as alone

3:54pm July 22, 2014

lichgem:

I’m beyond exhausted with the attitude that the only reason I could possibly exist publicly as a mentally ill person is because I’m trying to get attention or something

Instead of maybe I just want to BE and not have to hide a huge aspect of my life out of terror

Everyone who makes judgments about who’s ‘real’ or not is inevitably forcing lots of mentally ill people to go stealth and I don’t think that’s unintentional. Their vitriol is directed at US, make no mistake. Not just ‘fakers,’ since people will decide we’re ‘fake’ for any old reason.

Agreed.  Completely.  And it makes me furious.

In fact, this whole culture of looking for people who are “just attention seeking” makes me furious.  

Because it’s this really broad thing, that’s being applied across the board to a lot of people, and it’s so fucking pointless and destructive, yet people love to do it.

And it’s the people who are genuine who are hit the hardest.

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