Can y’all stop using posts about thoughts not being actions, posts that differentiate between thoughts and reality, and posts about how your thoughts aren’t a reflection of you as a person as receipts against people in pedophile/pedophile apologist callouts? You may not realize it, but doing so is ableist and as someone with OCD that gives them disturbing intrusive thoughts and impulses, I find it very worrying how often I’ve seen these kinds of posts being used as receipts.
These posts are made to help people with mental illnesses that give them intrusive thoughts, impulses, delusions, or the general inability to feel like they are in control of what goes through their minds by reminding them that these things aren’t a reflection of them as a person and therefore don’t automatically make them bad because they are just a symptom of an illness. As I stated above, I deal with intrusive thoughts and impulses and I often feel like I may not be able to be a good person because of them. This fear is one of the things that contributes to the mental illness induced self hate that I constantly try so hard to battle, which is common amongst pretty much all mentally ill people, especially those with symptoms people deem scary or extreme. The reminder that these kinds of posts contain are crucial to overcoming this battle for us and now we have to be scared of reblogging/making them because of the repercussions it may have.
When you are using these kinds of posts as receipts, you are also lumping innocent mentally ill people in with actual bad people that have done bad things. Someone that gets an intrusive thought about murdering someone that causes them distress because that’s something they would never ever want to do does not deserve to be treated like/seen as the same as someone that actually murdered someone. When someone hurts you and it was on accident or it wasn’t their intention, they still have to apologize because you still were hurt. My abusive step mom thought she was a good parent but her abuse shows that she’s not. The point here is that actions > thoughts and if you use these posts as receipts, you are saying that you disagree with that. And if you disagree with that, you end up trivializing the actual bad things that bad people have done. If actions don’t matter more than thoughts, then my abuse would have to be justified because my step mom thought she was doing what was best and that person that hurt you shouldn’t have to apologize because that’s not what they intended. By using these posts as receipts, you are saying that getting bad thoughts that happen out of your control makes you as bad as someone that has actually done the things in those bad thoughts.
Another thing to think about when it comes to this is how using these posts as receipts can perpetuate the stereotype that mentally ill people with these symptoms are dangerous and bad people. You’re taking positivity posts for mentally ill people out of context and using them as “proof” that someone is dangerous. As a result, people are gonna see these posts in the future and that’s what they’ll automatically think about the person that made/reblogged it. They are gonna think that people that suffer with these symptoms are dangerous and should be avoided instead of thinking they need support and understanding. Having the context be removed or distorted is gonna make people think dangerously wrong things about people like me and that’s going to cause harm to us.
So yeah, please stop using positivity/relatable posts for mentally ill people as receipts in your callouts. Maybe even stop supporting callouts that already exist that do this and tell the op that that’s not okay. It’s hard enough to try and convince yourself that your mental illness doesn’t make you a bad person so imagine how much harder that is to do when you keep seeing people use symptoms you deal with as “proof”, and sometimes it’s the only “proof” presented, for why someone is bad. You’re not helping anyone by doing this.
Y’all, likes don’t help spread awareness and people are gonna keep doing this if they aren’t aware that this is bad.
OP is an amazing person and I hope OP and anyone who nicely reblogged this has the best day ever.
I suspect at least some percentage of shitty cultural appropriation discourse comes from white people who now have a “progressive” sounding explanation for feeling anxious about interacting with people from different (especially non-white/western/Christian) ethnic groups and cultures (and of course it gets egged on by the internet’s performative wokeness moral purity bullshit contest).
Like this, but unironically:
Personal experience can confirm something like this. I had people get real uncomfortable when I’d talk about my experiences in Mexico (ie the majority of my life) and ask me not to bring it up (NOT BRING UP ALMOST ALL MY LIFE EVENTS) like “as a white person, I just don’t understand that stuff and I don’t feel comfortable commenting on a culture I don’t belong to” and be like this about everything non-white.
Lady Shug getting ready for a drag
performance at the West Colorado Pride Festival. She performed nearly
every weekend as part of her Miss New Mexico Pride duties.
Lady Shug using foam to accentuate her hips before a drag performance.
Sharnell Paul, a transgender teen, at her home with her horses in Dennehotso, Arizona.
Paul, 19, was recently removed from the “Women of the Navajo” calendar after someone outed her to the publisher.
Travis “Buffalo Barbie” Goldtooth
sitting in front of Shiprock, a prominent landmark for Navajo people.
She identifies with both genders and uses female pronouns.
Buffalo Barbie at home with her dogs in Teec Nos Pos, Arizona.
Lola De La Hoya at a friend’s where she often takes refuge from the criticism of her parents.
Lola De La Hoya’s daily regimen of
testosterone blockers and estrogen pills. A lack of transportation and
access to hospitals makes it difficult to maintain her treatments.
De La Hoya getting ready for a drag performance at Gay Prom, one of the few events of the year aimed at Navajo LGBTQ people.
Michelle Sherma and her grandmother
live together. Her grandma helped Sherman’s parents understand
traditional Navajo notions of gender and their daughter’s identity.
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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