Mental health discourse
I kind of don't like the phrase "mental illness" to be applied to myself. (If you find it helpful, that's great and I don't want to take it away.) In my mind, illnesses are something that /happens/ to a person. They're also something you can get better from, at least ideally.
My issues are baked into who I am. They're not something I'll ever get better from, though they can often be managed. I'm not looking out for a cure. "Illness" just doesn't fit.
@Ramona I super relate to this. I call myself a lesbian too. The thing that made me feel okay with that was seeing someone say "I don't mean lesbian in the sense that I'm only attracted to women, I mean that my sexuality decenters men."
I've figured out that for me, the way it works is I'm only attracted to men who have first deconstructed what masculinity means.
Bless Mastodon for letting me export/import follow lists, especially in these early days before I really settle on an instance.
Based on a quick skim of the local timeline I might actually be okay talking about dissociation and shit here. My brain is a mess and I don't enjoy feeling like that fact is something I have to leave buried.
Moving to @starkatt
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