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plurality, mental health stigma
If you pay attention, it's very common to acknowledge, directly, that our minds have parts. But when you start giving those parts names and letting other people know they exist, it's suddenly assumed that you are dangerous, even if only to yourself.
Maybe I dissociate a bit more than most people, but the thing that really makes me different is just self-knowledge and authenticity.
re: plurality, mental health stigma
@madewokherd this makes a lot of sense and i hope reminding ourselves of that will allow us to come out of our shell more
plurality, mental health stigma
I wonder, if I'd understood that earlier and approached it from the angle of "I'm really not much different from everyone else, just more aware of the specifics of the parts that I, like everyone else, have, and that's important enough to me that I want to share it," would I have been met with less stigma?