when i made a post for people with psychosis. which, let's be honest, barely counts as a positivity post when I'm just demanding you include them in your activism. i got a slew of dedicated anons trying to trigger a psychotic episode in me (which i deleted). there was backlash against such a mild, lukewarm post even in the notes. and most of the people agreeing with it also generalised it to include other stigmatized conditions. which, i agree that people with other conditions also need to be included, but it is in some respects somewhat frustrating. because it feels like people aren't really addressing the ableism and saneism that people with psychosis face. that including them becomes another checklist on being a good disability advocate and that there hasn't been sincere introspection about psychotic disabled people and how we can protect them in our community. do you understand. i asked for an iota of respect for people with psychosis and instead i got anons trying to trigger a psychotic break in me, assuming that it's a condition i have. that can be so dangerous for people with psychosis. they're vulnerable to being triggered by malicious actors and, like many disabled people, their symptoms can easily be used to relentless abuse them. and for what? merely mentioning the existence of psychosis and someone wanted to trigger something that could seriously harm or kill a person? with the comfort of their anonymity people online are relentlessly cruel to people with psychosis. actually consider how we can protect our fellow disabled people, understand their reality, and include them in our communities and try not to just pay lip service to it. next time you think unreality warnings are silly or someone should get the obvious joke (which is straight up saying things contradictory to reality) without someone giving up the bit to reassure them, remember that a mere mention of this condition was enough for someone to try and destabilise my entire worldview and mental health. because they thought that they could.
