#demonizing

[gothicseverance]

The angel who left her house was, on some metaphorical level, seen by the conservative elements of Victorian culture as a streetwalker.

—Gothic Light

Art by @aaphids 🖤

[umbrellagoaway]

"It was Pony's fault!"

"It was darry's fault!"

"it was sherri's fault!"

And almost everybody was partially at fault (except for soda, Johnny and twobit)

I feel like if you took any moment from chapter 2 and had it not happen the events of the rest of the book wouldn't happen

[aspd-culture]

Aspd culture (and just general mental illness culture in general) is not being allowed to make jokes about your disorder because people will pearl-clutch about how you shouldn’t pathologize everything about yourself and how tiktok is ruining mental illness awareness. It is but also this isn’t that and stop assuming everyone ever who talks about things super blasé and nonchalantly is tiktok poisoned, I am literally just a silly guy who makes jokes, maybe get off my dick because it isn’t a replacement for the stick you have up your ass

On the one hand, I agree with 90% of your ask.

But also, there's the fact that tiktok isn't ruining mental illness awareness. People said that about tiktok, tumblr, and honestly every place that any semi-large community has ever talked about mental health.

That talking point is complete bs and stems from people who don't want to risk admitting that mental illness is very common and specifically originated in two groups as far as I've seen.

The first was older (like boomer to gen x), abusive adults who did not want to acknowledge their spouses and children were sustaining life altering damage from the things that came out of their mouth and common abusive punishments like removing a door. If they acknowledged mental illness, how common it is, and the science behind what causes it, then they would have to admit what they did was abuse even though they "never raised a hand to them", as they love to point out.

The second is people being sexist and infantilizing and just plain attacking young people, particularly girls and lgbt ppl. They don't want to admit children and young adults can ever have real problems, so they spout this idea that people who talk about their mental illness on social media (sites that are statistically more appealing to mentally ill people, teens, and young adults, especially afabs) are somehow invalid or "romanticizing mental health problems".

Are there real people who do that? Of course. But they are not a product of tiktok, or tumblr, or any social media site, or the internet.

For as long as there has been any discussion about mental health, there have been people romanticizing, sexualizing, demonizing, and invalidating it.

But that doesn't suit the talking points of the people who want to invalidate the harm caused by non-physical ahuse, nor the talking points of those who wish to silence young people. So instead, they continue to attack tiktok - a site which has not spread significantly more misinfo than this app we call home or any other social media site or even just... any group of semi-educated people talking anecdotally? - but has been proven over and over to have helped a huge wave of people find out information that led to diagnosis and treatment of disorders, especially obscure disorders (both mental and physical), in people that never would have otherwise known there was a name for their problem.

That is huge. That is a great thing.

I first heard the word (tw) sociopath when I was about 13. I ignored how much the book in question (actually about ASPD) fit me, and moved on because I thought "that's too rare, I must be misunderstanding it", and even then it was only because of my special interest in mental health that I found the book to begin with. Then I saw it spoken about again on here and on tiktok, and I realized I needed to research this again and not be afraid of it, and here I am professionally diagnosed.

I never knew before a few months ago that I even *might* be autistic. Guess who taught me? Tiktok. For 3 years I have seen bit by bit, video by video, symptom by symptom, tiktoks that I related to way too much from people (both professionals and regular autistic people of various ages, genders, etc). I unlearned so much ableism and stereotypes about autism that I internalized from the idea that only little white boys have it, thanks to tiktok. So, when my therapist brought up wanting an autism evaluation for me, I wasn't blindsided. And when I found out I had it, I had been suspecting that was the case for a while. I might not have handled the process of a new diagnosis so well had I not known it might be coming.

Tiktok is advancing awareness and respect for people with mental and physical disorder that the public hasn't heard of. That's not "romanticization", that's destigmatization. Two very different things.

/nmay nor is all of this really a direct reply to you. This ask just gave me a reason to talk about something I've been seeing on here and not liking for a while. We're not better than people on tiktok, and that in itself is elitism.

[prodogg]

How exactly do people come to the conclusion that Azula has pushed people from roofs as a child. I read that more recently in some fics and it just really annoys me. Example’s for people she pushes are Ty Lee because of jealousy apparently and Zuko because 🤷‍♂️

[leagueoflegends-confessions]

Why does Ahri get hate? Like I don’t get the way some people in this fandom demonize her?

Artwork by Clover7

[meats-moved]

sorry you're getting weird anons *puts a little cat in your arms*

oh my goodness thank you so much *i my hoodie on backwards and put the cat in my hood *

[sarcasticcynic]

All propaganda directed against an opposing group has but one aim: to substitute diabolical abstractions for concrete persons. The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. By robbing them of their personality, he puts them outside the pale of moral obligation. Mere symbols can have no rights.

Aldous Huxley, The Olive Tree (1936)