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thisisspinaltapprivilege: snazzy-lobster: wetwareproblem :
All right, you @ed us, so you clearly want a reply to this embarrassing shitshow. Pardon me for replying like this, but there is no way we’re going to put the racist-ass bad math above you (which I note you didn’t dispute) on our blog.
1. “You’re the real ableist,” you say to an autistic woman with a number of mental illnesses. “It’s so toxic of you to self-diagnose! How dare you not pay thusands of dollars to be cut off from your child and risk institutionalization again! I mean, sure your psych team supports and endorses it, but unless you’ve taken that risk it’s just not vaaaaalid.” So... only a psych professional can tell me my diagnosis is legit, but a stranger on the internet can tell me, over the objections of my psych team, that it’s bullshit?
You’re not exactly starting strong on the logic here, is what I’m saying.
2. “You’re the real ableist,” you continue, “because you don’t recognize that violence is clearly a symptom of mental illness!” First of all, um, that kinda contradicts your argument against self-diagnosis above. Second, the best research we have says, flat-out, that you are wrong. Not that I’d expect you to care - after all, that’s only an epidemiologist and psychiatrist publishing in one of the most globally-respected journals of psychiatry, working from over a decade of research. It’s not as reliable as a stranger on the internet.
2a. If you did care, though, you would note that you are not just wrong, you are actively contributing to both the relatively rare violent incidents that do occur, and to the risk of violence experienced by mentally ill people.
3. You know that the plural of “anecdote” is not “data,” right?
3a. I have three of the five things you list in your example and more besides. My girlfriend has a differing set of three of them and more besides. Both of us have faced not just rejection, but actual abuse. Between the two of us, we have assaulted a grand total of zero (0) people who were not violent toward us first. So... even if anecdotes were data, you lose.
4. I’m not laughing here. This post was made in deadly serious earnest, because the attitudes I’m addressing here are dangerous to me and mine, possibly fatal. I am addressing them because, y’know, I want the people around me to live happy and productive lives.
I also love the implication that, y’know, I’m making fun of people with mental illnesses instead of directing them to support, help, and resources. Do you know how many people have come to me in just the past month for help, and were given exactly that? I don’t, because I lost fucking count. How many people have come to you? Maybe there’s a reason for that.
I don’t need strawman arguments; your real ones are ugly and wrong enough.
