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   Abolish Pregnancy (abolishpregnancy@spinster.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 05-Aug-2023 09:41:33 JST Abolish Pregnancy

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   What in fuck’s name is a cute mental illness
   
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     Seahorses are horses (piss_ant@spinster.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 05-Aug-2023 09:41:33 JST Seahorses are horses

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     @AbolishPregnancy Supposedly we make up mental illnesses to be cute and trendy 🤷♀️
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     Abolish Pregnancy (abolishpregnancy@spinster.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 05-Aug-2023 11:20:33 JST Abolish Pregnancy

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     @Piss_Ant Oh gotcha.
     
     I wonder how widespread stigma really is. I don’t hear a lot of it myself; even my conservative dad kind of grasped my anxiety when I explained it to him.
     
     Most of it comes from the right, I believe. If you hang around sometimes in RW places (as I do to escape the left, not because I like it) you’ll hear more stigma. And I think because of the MH issue itself as well as feeling shame for it, people internalize that viewpoint and unintentionally repeat it to themselves, creating the impression of hearing degrading/dismissive comments more often than they actually do.
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     The Dread Slender Gnome (gnomeshatecheese@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2023 09:24:15 JST The Dread Slender Gnome

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     @Piss_Ant @AbolishPregnancy Doesn’t help that there actually seem to be hordes of teens and post-teens online self-diagnosing into mental illnesses, in plural, for … clout I guess. Or even neurological disorders. Like that one woman who became quite big on TikTok pretending to have Tourette’s.

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