Hi, I’m a huge fan of your work, especially on medium. I’ve read some of your thoughts on this before, but do you have anything to say about how mental illness, especially ones considered more “severe” fit into the broader context of disability justice and neurodivergence liberation?
There seems to have been a major effort to depathologize and destigmatize autism and adhd in recent years (at least for powerful groups) and I’m wondering if you’ve seen similar progress doing the same for conditions like BPD, NPD, Schizophrenia, DID, DP/DR, etc. What do you think would help people better understand and empathize with those who have those conditions (especially autistic/adhd people who may normally ignore their struggles)? Also, what material changes need to occur (especially within the mental healthcare system) to liberate people who deal with conditions like those listed above? I suppose I’m also curious if you could elaborate more on the struggles and ableism faced by people with “severe mental illness,” both in the present and historically.
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Hi, I’m a huge fan of your work, especially on medium. I’ve read some of your thoughts on this before, but do you have anything to say about how mental illness, especially ones considered more “severe” fit into the broader context of disability justice and neurodivergence liberation?
There seems to have been a major effort to depathologize and destigmatize autism and adhd in recent years (at least for powerful groups) and I’m wondering if you’ve seen similar progress doing the same for conditions like BPD, NPD, Schizophrenia, DID, DP/DR, etc. What do you think would help people better understand and empathize with those who have those conditions (especially autistic/adhd people who may normally ignore their struggles)? Also, what material changes need to occur (especially within the mental healthcare system) to liberate people who deal with conditions like those listed above? I suppose I’m also curious if you could elaborate more on the struggles and ableism faced by people with “severe mental illness,” both in the present and historically.
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