Comments on: Guest Post: Learning to Write About Disability http://disabledfeminists.com/2009/11/20/guest-post-learning-to-write-about-disability/ FWD (feminists with disabilities) for a way forward Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:07:39 +0000 hourly 1 By: Laura Overstreet http://disabledfeminists.com/2009/11/20/guest-post-learning-to-write-about-disability/#comment-3163 Laura Overstreet Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:25:56 +0000 http://disabledfeminists.com/?p=1485#comment-3163 Wow, what a great way to put why you/we talk and write about disability, to reclaim that agency. Thank you for starting here! Wow, what a great way to put why you/we talk and write about disability, to reclaim that agency. Thank you for starting here!

]]> By: lauren http://disabledfeminists.com/2009/11/20/guest-post-learning-to-write-about-disability/#comment-2998 lauren Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:38:45 +0000 http://disabledfeminists.com/?p=1485#comment-2998 Thank you for writing this. Being open about having a mental health condition is one of the scariest things to me. That fear of suddenly not being considered a reliable, sane person anymore. Of people questioning my decisions, my experiences, my stories about my life. Because being depressed means that either you are just down, exaggerating and need to ^pull yourself together^ (my nomination for an ableist word profile), or you are crazy. And then of course, nobody can believe anything you say. It is sad that so many people, myself sadly included, do not realize how steeped in prejudice our society is until we are on the receiving end of it. Thank you for writing this.

Being open about having a mental health condition is one of the scariest things to me. That fear of suddenly not being considered a reliable, sane person anymore. Of people questioning my decisions, my experiences, my stories about my life. Because being depressed means that either you are just down, exaggerating and need to ^pull yourself together^ (my nomination for an ableist word profile), or you are crazy. And then of course, nobody can believe anything you say.

It is sad that so many people, myself sadly included, do not realize how steeped in prejudice our society is until we are on the receiving end of it.

]]> By: anthea http://disabledfeminists.com/2009/11/20/guest-post-learning-to-write-about-disability/#comment-2996 anthea Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:07:50 +0000 http://disabledfeminists.com/?p=1485#comment-2996 *nods*. I have PTSD, which was repeatedly misdiagnosed as a range of mental health conditions, and it seemed that any time I wrote about it it was either seen as self absorbed (in a way that apparently writing three pages on your wedding dress isn't) or completely unreliable (you're crazy, of course what you're saying must just be your imagination). *nods*. I have PTSD, which was repeatedly misdiagnosed as a range of mental health conditions, and it seemed that any time I wrote about it it was either seen as self absorbed (in a way that apparently writing three pages on your wedding dress isn’t) or completely unreliable (you’re crazy, of course what you’re saying must just be your imagination).

]]> By: Gossamer http://disabledfeminists.com/2009/11/20/guest-post-learning-to-write-about-disability/#comment-2991 Gossamer Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:59:41 +0000 http://disabledfeminists.com/?p=1485#comment-2991 Thank you for writing this. Thank you for writing this.

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