kettlehead-comics asked:

Hey, I'm an artist who did a brief stint in PMDe. Read your, ah, very thorough rebuttal of Pengo – I had three hours to kill, apparently – and wanted to express both sympathy for the hate you've been getting, and genuine admiration for your thoroughness. Top notch. I will say that your brief comments on paranoia were not particularly necessary or sympathetic, but then, neither was he. Hope people take the time to read it!

hey thanks

i am still kind of, uh, torn on that

ultimately if you have a significant filter on how you interact with the world it seems useful to take that into account?  especially if that filter serves as a useful explanation that would not otherwise exist

but people often operate in extremes and there’s seemingly no way to say “maybe sometimes a paranoid person experiences unreasonable fear”, even though that’s by definition, without it sounding like “nothing paranoid people say is reliable ever”

it’s the same sort of problem as “you say you’re innocent, but that’s just what a guilty person would say” — believing victims is a good idea in general, but there’s no room for subtlety

i dunno

  1. dirtsaliva said: Its ridiculously difficult to even suggest that someone with any mental illness might be at fault for something, even misremembering. There’s a lot of really amazing support for neurodivergency esp on tumblr and no one wants that compromised.
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