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@tryingtoohardddd / tryingtoohardddd.tumblr.com

this is me trying super hard to be alt
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Romanticizing mental illness is… well, you can’t call it ‘cultural appropriation,’ but it is something like it. It is picking a’ la carte the things that you like and want to use to spice up your neurotypical life, and thinking it is nothing but harmless fun, maybe even you can give yourself credit for ‘mental illness appreciation’. To you, it is like picking up accessories to complete an outfit. But it isn’t harmless. It makes the prejudice and discrimination against mental illness grow. It makes it seem like having a mental illness isn’t a serious thing. It makes it seem like having a mental illness isn’t a real thing. It causes people to accuse the real people with real mental illnesses of being posers and making excuses for not doing things their illness will not let them do.  When a devastating flood that killed a hundred people is getting a lot of news coverage and people are mourning, would you go out in public wearing a t-shirt with a graphic of people drowning and one drowning person saying something like “I can see your house from here” and say you are being supportive of flood victims? Yeah, I know you didn’t realize it, but it’s like that.
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a reminder

it’s okay to be mentally ill. it’s okay to feel helpless. it’s okay to seek help. it’s okay to be on meds. it’s okay to go to therapy.

you’re worth it. it will get better.

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