some breath of the wild fanart
My mom’s always afraid I’ll get discriminated against because, according to her, I look like an immigrant. I guess at a passing glance my thick black curls might cause one to think I’m Moroccan or Arabic or something but once you see my face it’s pretty obvious that I’m white as hell.
The fact that she’s more concerned by the possibility of me being mistaken for an immigrant than the fact that immigrants get discriminated against in the first place is a bit telling…
also i think it’s a bad social model for people to have to disclose their mental health status in order to be ‘allowed’ to have an opinion on mental health stuff
the culture of this website has normalized outlining your mental health profile (and often also survivor status) in detail on your about, but it also hasn’t normalized simply choosing not to disclose that information, which is scary to me
instead of expecting people to disclose sensitive personal information which they may not want to disclose, I think it’s better to maintain the awareness that we don’t know the full life story of the person we are talking to and understand that just because they don’t mention it in their about, it doesn’t mean it’s not there.
