also i think it’s a bad social model for people to have to disclose their mental health status in order to be ‘allowed’ to have an opinion on mental health stuff
the culture of this website has normalized outlining your mental health profile (and often also survivor status) in detail on your about, but it also hasn’t normalized simply choosing not to disclose that information, which is scary to me
instead of expecting people to disclose sensitive personal information which they may not want to disclose, I think it’s better to maintain the awareness that we don’t know the full life story of the person we are talking to and understand that just because they don’t mention it in their about, it doesn’t mean it’s not there.
Jup, when identity is seem as synonymous with ‘right to speak’ and privilege is seen as synonymous with ‘can’t speak on this no matter what the content of their words’, we get to a place where a constant display of our identity and history is demanded of us, including an elaborate display of our suffering. This is part of the nasty authority of identity in social justice
