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Mental illness caused by a bad society

Roswell

Where do you draw the line, is mental illness medical or caused by society?

If a Jew was mentally ill when they were being persecuted in Nazi Germany, it would be hard to draw the line.

Black men are a lot more likely to be sectioned in mental health hospitals. Perhaps that's linked to racism being more prevalent towards black men in the UK?

Autistic people are significantly more likely to kill themselves and die young than other people. Is that genetically inevitable or because society drives people to it?

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  • Roswell,

    What the society demands of autistic people is what causes the mental illnesses, if it was the gene they would have already had the mental illness.

    Masking is the problem, autistic adults are more likely to have suicidal thoughts because of thwarted belonging and unacceptance of our natural way of being.

    The society demanding us to do things their way, disallowing people to stim, force eye contact, forced to socialize when they don't want to, basically taking authority over our lives that we don't get to choose for ourselves but instead live facing stigma, cultural prejudice and oppression.

    It is undeniable that the majority of suffering autistic people experience is through mistreatment by the society.

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  • Roswell,

    What the society demands of autistic people is what causes the mental illnesses, if it was the gene they would have already had the mental illness.

    Masking is the problem, autistic adults are more likely to have suicidal thoughts because of thwarted belonging and unacceptance of our natural way of being.

    The society demanding us to do things their way, disallowing people to stim, force eye contact, forced to socialize when they don't want to, basically taking authority over our lives that we don't get to choose for ourselves but instead live facing stigma, cultural prejudice and oppression.

    It is undeniable that the majority of suffering autistic people experience is through mistreatment by the society.

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