I was making a zine the other day and wrote a phrase that later came up talking to a friend. "I wish people would be willing to engage with me outside of pathology." 

People refusing to see differences as anything other than a disease is a problem that I've noticed a lot lately. It was bad enough when I was last around in... somewhere like 2017 or 2018? But now I'm seeing people (especially in online spheres, but increasingly offline too) treat mental illness as a center of identity or absolute truth that everyone can and should be sorted into, as a center to engage with the world through- treating each other as problems to be fixed instead of organic people to learn from, support, and accept. And I really don't like that.

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