sevenhelz

I just want to put this down before I forget: "But when it was me - oh, that was *different*." is from the first BADD post I just linked on depression. Then there's Shapely Prose, where it's often mentioned "I was okay with Fat Acceptance for other people, but for me I just had to lose a few pounds before I would be acceptable" (I completely paraphrase)... It was the same for me, reading about people's experiences of depression. Yes, this has a name, and I haven't been using it wrongly. And then there's Penelope Trunk telling us that no-one is special, our situations are not completely different to other people's. She talking about people looking for work or something. It seems that for a lot of people in a lot of ways, the "click" moment is realising they aren't the only ones thinking this way. That different people can use the same techniques to handle similar problems; that we don't  have to re-invent the wheel (and here I credit Penelope Trunk again. She is smart and I disagree with her on many things and I'm uncertain about others and I still love her, because she is smart. And I really hope she stops using ableist language).