Rant, Furries
The furry fandom has an incredible problem with privilege, and recognizing just how much privilege plays a role in access to fursuits conventions, and commissions.
That those who access conventions often inappropriately co-opt the language of mental illness to describe the deprivation of those events from their life, demonstrates how insidious this level of overt privilege is. It is often the providence of those in power to co-opt the language of the "other."
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@Motodrachen I agree it is possible, but for most people they would not fulfill any of the three main criteria for an addiction.
But comparing the temporary loss of rapport which came from an event, of which attending is a /privilege/, to the permanent inability for a person's brain to reach an average baseline a brain ought to is ignorant at best and downright ableist at worst.
PCD is not a mental illness. If it was, it'd just be... depression. Or an addiction. No special.
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@Pliio I agree completely. I'm not talking about addiction as a Behavioral mental illness here, I'm talking about how people down't know how come down off a high gracefully.
Being bummed out because you're out of weed is about as much like Real Clinical depression as PCD is.
re: Rant, Furries
@Motodrachen
I admit bias as an extremely underprivileged person, that it basically sounds like, "oh woe is me, for I do not get to do this extremely rare and expensive thing literally 24/7, something less than 1% of furries can do and most people can never afford to do, however shall I live?"
And the people who attend like 6+ conventions a year as a hobby do take up space from novel attendees, and might even qualify as an addiction.