Thread by @pinkness

I am severely mentally ill.

While I do refuse to put myself in any situation with a gun, it is 100% to protect myself from harm. I have never in my 30+ years of living with severe mental illness even felt an inkling of a desire to hurt someone else.

I am not a scapegoat.

I lose sight of the lines between real and not. I have had breaks from reality and I likely will again.

In person, I am quiet. Keep to myself. Weird. Sometimes I have trouble with social situations.

Have never considered hurting anyone else, ever.

In these 30+ plus years of severe mental illness, I have been beaten, abused, raped, stalked, mocked & slutshamed on a global scale. Dismissed as unimportant. Bullied systematically. Received death threats on a daily to weekly basis.

Never thought about harming others, ever.

The problem isn't mental illness.

The problem here is white supremacy and toxic masculinity. The problem here is white men thinking anything and everything is their divine birthright. The problem here is our nation is flooded w/ guns.

The problem is not mental illness.

I, and people like me, are not the problem and we are not your scapegoats.

Do fucking better.

You can reply to this thread with how wrong I am all day long; my block list is 31k strong and grows by the second.

Yell into the wind; you're not going to bother me.