romanticizing mental illness is dangerous and misleading

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Artsy depression: haunted eyes, good at art, emo hair and eyeliner on point

Actual Depression: bloodshot eyes, no longer trust themselves with pencils, has not showered in five days

Quirky OCD: organized books, clean room, color coordinated outfits

Actual OCD: Intrusive thoughts, flipping the light switch 8 times so you don’t stab your brother, picking holes in your skin

Cute eating disorders: Slim trim and beautiful, shyly refusing a second helping, dancer aesthetic

Actual eating disorders: Puffy cheeks and eroded teeth from excessive vomiting, hair growing over your freezing body and refusing to eat carrots because they’re too high in carbs

Adorable anxiety: just a smol bean, soft, must be protected from the world

Actual anxiety: crying so hard you throw up, shaking, losing sleep over a period after the “okay”

RPG PTSD: flashbacks, vietnam, u don’t know what i’ve been through kiddo

Actual PTSD: Buying your first pregnancy test at twelve, flinching at high fives, i can’t feel my hands where am I what year is it

Cartoon ADHD: look a squirrel, something shiny, fidgety loveable bufoon

Actual ADHD: rereading the same page over and over because it doesn’t make sense, hasn’t done the laundry in four months, hyperfocusing on a mushroom knowing you have work to do

stop making terrifying realities seem cute. it’s disrespectful for those of us who are actually struggling

Fucking preach.

Uwu smol baby autism: adorably awkward, huggable, acts cute when confused, has some sort of rainman talent and a perfect memory in general

Real autism: worrying about whether you’re interpreting people’s cues correctly/making your tone sound correct for the context, or whether they’re about to get wierded out and uncomfortable bc of something you said, sensory issues that drive you nuts, not being able to adapt to sudden changes in plans and freaking out, melting down or shutting down when stressed by stupid things

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Reblogging for the autism part that is just too real 

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though i would like it clarified that there is a huge difference between nt people doing this and actual neurodivergent people headcanoning that their favorite characters also have their actual neurodivergence. anyone who does this (like me!) will be accused of romanticizing their own conditions, instead of it being the form of self-love it actually is

and furthermore, on thinking about it, fuckboys will often drag out that any positive depiction of a mental illness or disability is romanticizing it, not just (though is often, if not usually the case) when a neurodivergent person does it. the same issue comes up with trans or asexual/aromantic headcanons, which you will often get faux-concerned trolls saying that those things are “too serious of an issue to wave around like this”

fuck that and fuck you too, troll

the problem is that no one is ever allowed to depict an autistic person as being happy that they are autistic, or a schizoaffective person cracking jokes about their own illness without getting a backlash, and it sucks

be critical of the posts you read on tumblr like this, and for anyone who agrees with the hypocritical strawmen i just listed, die mad about it

Mhm, excellent addition and seeing as I do headcanon? That I have repisentation for my own conditions in shows or books and such. I do that type of thing because it helps me feel less of an outcast and unloveable. Idk, it’s important to me. So yea, here y’all go.

Also, not everyone that has those mental illnesses have them to the same degree. I have several of the ones mentioned and for me they aren’t as severe as what is described.