I hate how it’s all about ‘mental health awareness’ and ‘mental health positivity’ unless you have ASPD, BPD, NPD or are a compulsive liar.
As someone who has ASPD I hate how our society treats mental illnesses that aren’t considered wholesome like depression or autism.
You’re probably right.
I do wanna say that as someone with autism, people do not treat it as wholesome in relationships. It’s definitely given a bit of leeway but in the grant scheme of things people will respect the idea of autism, but no one actually cares about what I deal with on a day-to-day basis and it sucks because people still get mad at you when they inevitably don’t realize a lot of things happen because of it.
I just have to assume a lot of people get used to the idea of mental disabilities, but they can not deal with them in person.
I see where your coming from. People think of autism as either the the wholesome smart kid syndrome or the annoying marriage ruiner syndrome. The way our society looks at mental health is that it’s either absolutely glorified or absolutely demonised and autism is unique as it’s seen as both.