Being on social media is not unlike the abusive, gaslighting, negative environment that I grew up in. My life hasn't really changed at all in that regard.
I grew up in a household of people who never saw me as a person, as something with a heart and soul of my own. At this point being ME is one of the most important things to me.
No one is blaming ANYONE for having privilege. What people are asking is that you realize you have, and benefit from, privilege regularly and that judging other people from a position of privilege is gross and ignorant.
Social media algorithms, among other things, are specifically designed to maximize, enhance, and weaponize people's unchecked and unmanaged mental illness, making it worse and spreading it.
The more you you accept other people's terrible and unhealthy treatment of you and others … the more scars you're willingly accepting that don't even BELONG to you …
