This is Saneism

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This is a blog collecting examples of saneism. Inspired by blogs like of @this-is-ableism , @this-is-transandrophobia, @thisisexorsexism, and previously @this-is-intersexism.

Saneism is defined as: prejudice or discrimination against mentally ill people or people with mental illness(es).

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Mention of abuse, violence and unreality

I don’t know if this was sanism or just part of the abuse, but my sibling once attempted to convince me I had killed our younger sibling as a child, and that that the only reason I didn’t remember was because mom and dad put me through therapy to forget and so that I would “forget I was a psychopath.”

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the way people use the term "narcissistic abuse" is so weird cuz i used to think it implied a narcissistic person being abused instead of being abused by a narcissistic person 😭

just like how the terms "child abuse" and "animal abuse" mean children and animals being abused rather than someone being abused BY them

You would think, alas

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This is saneism.

(Seriously, you can make clickbait videos without promoting dangerous stereotypes about the mentally ill. It’s actually super easy and there’s literally no reason to not do it.)

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during middle school, our generalized anxiety disorder and agoraphobia were at an all-time high. an old antelet host discovered he’s a trans man around the start of 6th grade, this will be relevant.

our anxiety compounded with our dysphoria made it increasingly difficult to regularly attend school, let alone do any assignments. we were known to be shy and incredibly sensitive (due to audhd and misophonia), which made us an easy target for bullying and harassment. we had threats shouted at us when we were in the hallway, in the cafeteria, waiting outside to be picked up and driven home.

we had tried to tell different staff members but were dismissed every time. “they just want to be your friends, they’ll be nicer to you soon enough!” “if the bullying isn’t physical, we can’t do anything about it.” “just ignore them, they’ll get bored eventually.”

when our frequent panic attacks on school grounds became noticeable, a few of our teachers would deliberately call on us to answer questions or shove us into group projects, attempting to “socialize treatment” (what they called it) us out of having two anxiety disorders. staff in the office would see us approaching, looking to escape bullying or experiencing a panic attack tucked away in a corner, and constantly tell us to leave and quit seeking attention. (funny, because we were doing everything to avoid attention from anyone!)

our “father” attempted to pep-talk us over the phone out of our severe fear, when our trashy attendance and failing grades were impossible to ignore. we couldn’t talk and his “we all feel anxious sometimes!” escalated into screaming at us to “stop being a fucking baby” “real men suck it up” “real boys don’t get scared” we hung up quickly and he later lied to our momma that he never yelled at us and that our conversation was fine.

This is saneism and transmisia.

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Saneism and alterhumisia is calling an alterhuman delusional

This is saneism and alterhumisia

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Idk if it’s saneism but I feel too scared to open up more about my plurality to my friends and family

I’m afraid they’ll send me to the psych ward or put me on medication that will make it worse but I can’t hide it from them forever because it’s a big deal for me :(

This is the result of saneism and pluralmisia

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My third-grade teacher once outed my mental illness to my entire class when I wasn't there. I didn't find out until one of my classmates told me that my teacher called me "sick in the head" and "not all there mentally" in front of the entire class. I was already being severely bullied daily. Hearing she did that made me distrust teachers for a long time.

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when i was frustrated about having to do an assignment related to moths (i ended up doing everything but the simulation thing, i can handle just deleting the still images on the google doc but moths or butterflies in motion make me feel like there’s bugs in my skin or hair.) and trying to be lighthearted and joking about how much i hate butterflies and moths because i was already decently uncomfortable. of course i got questioned why i hate yhem so much, i don’t mind answering! i have a phobja of moths and butterflies. it’s technically not diagnosed, but i mean everyone in my family acknowledges it and i cant handle the insect well. its something about the wings i think. regardless, i am irrationally afraid of them. the kid sitting next to me told me he didn’t “believe” in phobias. i told him that was really ignorant from his side because he was essentially just saying he didn’t believe in an anxiety disorder. i guess he didn’t understand what a phobia ACTUALLY was, because he started to justify himself saying “uh, no that’s not it it’s just like…being afraid of spiders okay… butterflies? now your just being a pussy.” It pissed me off really bad because people try to trigger it all the time because it’s a “weirder” one, (and before im told to just not let people know my triggers—the people i told were close friends) and i may have cursed at him but I don’t care. If your gonna be an ignorant fuck I’m gonna call you out on it. My friend tried saying he just an a “military” mindset like I’d fucking care? Like okay, he’s dismissing me and calling me a cowardly pussy about something he doesn’t even UNDERSTAND because he’s CLEARLY never had to deal with a phobia? Annoying as hell.

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in 9th grade I had these 3 "friends" (now ex friends). they were... okay. they said the r slur and said mean and gross things about people but I didn't think too much of it because I was 14, struggled severely with friends and bullying for years (since kindergarten), and desperately wanted to make new friends.

well one day at lunch I casually mentioned that I suspected autism (I got diagnosed a few months later btw) and after that they started treating me like I was like 4?? and they said it was just "jokes because I'm short" (I'm 4'11), even though it only started after I mentioned my, at the time suspected, autism.

they also were really fucking weird about mentally ill people in general.

they seemed to expect me to act a certain way but once learning about my autism expected me to act another way?? I never fit into their view of me. I dropped them halfway through 9th grade luckily due to my school having block scheduling (1st semester is 4 classes that are 90 minutes and 2nd semester is 4 different classes that are 90 minutes), so we had different lunches and I could just avoid them after that...

This is ableism

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ableism is the fact that, if i talk about my issues, im going to get put back in a mental hospital that abused me and many of its other patients because nobody will believe me

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saneism mixed with ableism i believe

(context) I have had prosopagnosia (face blindness) since birth and severe OCD. I also grew up with people who have autism and/or are blind. (i am not claiming i'm autistic or blind, i'm saying i picked up some behaviors from growing up around people who are autistic and blind along with peoples faces making me nervous from my OCD)

because of my OCD, face blindness, and picking up similar habits as the people around me i don't look people in the face. I had old friends try to fake claim my face blindness because I have trouble describing what people look like. my mom is also face blind so she told me the way she figures out who people are is to look at their movements, voice, and defining features. I don't look at people much at all (OCD, i often have intrusive thoughts people can read my mind if i look at them) except for their mannerisms so when I told them this they also tried to fake claim my OCD and told me that i don't know how face blindness or OCD works. when i also brought up i've picked up a lot of behaviors from growing up around autistic and blind individuals they told me thats "not how it worked" ??? the people i grew up around never looked me in the eyes/told me it made them nervous when people made eye contact so i haven't looked people in the eyes practically since I could understand speaking, it's literally a learned behavior, along with the fears of OCD, and not caring to look at peoples faces because i know i wont remember them. I also don't look at other attributes because my mom taught me to focus on mannerism which actually does help me figure out whos who

these people also don't have prosopagnosia or OCD and didn't grow up around mentally and physically disabled people. THEY shouldn't know how that works

This is saneism and ableism

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People acting as if it's impossible that I was suicidal and depressed since early childhood. Most of my early memories are about self-harm, suicide or depressive. But sure, I couldn't possibly know, right? What a mystery.

I personally believe that I was born with depression but I understand how people might doubt that. But don't insult my whole childhood experience and ridicule me when I say that I was depressed for as long as I can remember.

This is saneism and ageism

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This is a saneist red flag when someone comments on realistic depictions of mental health issues in fiction using derogatory or straight offensive words.

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My grandfather keeps trying to get me to try Zen basically small nicotine pouches. because some podcaster he listens to says it helps with basically everything you know classic pseudo medicine stuff. including autism ADHD and anxiety. I tell him no every time but he keeps trying not like he is trying to force me to or constantly insisting but every time we're in the car and he takes one he'll ask me if I want one it was easy to ignore the first few times but now it's really starting to bother me.

This is saneism and ableism

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saneism is psychiatrists never taking me seriously because my grades and iq look exceptional on paper— despite the fact that high iq has been linked to severe mental illness over and over again, and i literally beg them for help.

i know this sounds like bragging but its not a good thing. i need to get out of this.

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I'm learning Russian, and a youtuber i watch has a habit of pranking people by putting in the wrong phrase in one or two spots. One i really did not like was saying у меня шизофрения (I have schizophrenia) was saying "I am a foreigner" (Я иностранка)

I know it's supposed to be funny I guess but I really don't think it is-

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