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.
Pedophiles are just people with an illness. Child abusers are irredeemable and pure evil. But not all pedophiles are child abusers (and for that matter, not all child abusers are pedophiles). Pedophilia is nothing more than an attraction. Some sufferers succumb to and act on that attraction, others seek psychological help to manage that attraction so that they don’t act on it.
This commenter was very obviously referring to the latter: those afflicted by pedophilia who are determined to keep themselves from acting on it, but face social challenges in finding psychological help.