One of the worst things I see on this website is the 14/15/16 year olds who put things like “psychotic *insert character*” as their url or have some list of (often extremely rare) mental illnesses somewhere in their bio or a page, and then proceed to use mental illness as an excuse for childish and cruel behavior. It’s really making mental illness look like a joke and making it “trendy” to have Bipolar or Autism.

And don’t even begin with the people who use it as an excuse for awful behavior. No, being bipolar does not give you a right to be a jerk or blow up in fits of rage. Having PTSD from someone calling you a mean name, placing on the autism spectrum, etc, none of that equals “I get to be an asshole to everyone.” And yes, if you honestly diagnosed yourself with BPD because you matched a few symptoms on a website, you’re probably wrong.

Basically if you have a mental illness, ok, no one really cares as long as you’re a decent human being. If you want to spread awareness for or run a blog raising awareness for a certain illness go ahead, that’s a very good thing, but we’re all sick of pretending to type incorrectly from faked panic attacks and listing a series of illnesses when someone asks people to not be a cunt. I used to be this way and looking back it’s embarassing to think anyone would act like that.

And for the record, do you know how rare and severe actual psychosis and schizophrenia actually are? If all of these teens are telling the truth, tumblr must be home to every single psychotic person on earth.

If you are a decent human being with a genuine, professionally diagnosed disorder, and you don’t use it as an excuse for every bad thing you do, this isn’t towards you. This is at the teenagers who romanticize and sometimes even fetishize severe illnesses they’re often pretending to have. They’re making people’s suffering into a trend and that’s really disgusting.