it's so hard to stay attached to this world!

"if you're severely mentally ill why don't you say so in the first place?" "How am I supposed to know you're mentally ill?"

if i told you guys directly my mental illness you'd baby me. i don't want to be infantized and told everything "gets better." You all preach about mental illness awareness and that "we're humans and not defined by our illness" but that's how a lot of you see me if i actively push myself as "mentally ill." I'm not "a person with a mental illness," no matter how many of you want to use that label on me. I'm a mentally ill person. It's stupid how people without mental illness try to push labels on me or tell me how to live my life. People keep infantizing me, as if i really can't survive on my own. you know, i'm an adult right? I've lived more than anyone, done more than anyone, and yet people still want to dictate my life. I don't need to be retold things i already know and done. I'm a mentally ill person, but i've achived more than a lot of people have. Is it that shocking? I can still have a normal life, and be severely ill? It's as if people can't believe that I can, as if i can only be one of them. People either think I'm not mentally ill, or that i'm too mentally ill. Why do I have to prove anything about my illness?

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