This is....not strictly true. Or at least there are so many neurodivergencies are still named with the word Disorder in them. Also, neurodivergencies DO still create disorder & distress sometimes, that’s why people still need mental health care for them. https://twitter.com/shiraisinspired/status/1293163936850878467

And the scolding about “people treating mental health disorders as desirable or quirky” helps no one. Awareness, destigmatization, etc take many many forms, and if you want to have a soecific conversation with someone about trivializing begavior that’s fine but there is simply NO

evidence of some significant trend of people faking mental illness because they think it’s cute. What there IS a trend of is extensive medical & intra communal gatekeeping that uses claims of “fake” diagnoses to question, berate, & mistreat mentally ill people.

On top of that, complaints I’ve seen of “romanticization” of mental illness almost inevitably turn out to be people with those mental health conditions choosing to speak publicly about the aspects of it they actually like, or making jokes about it because they need space to vent.

Inevitably, posts like these are part of a ridiculous trend of refusing access to services for already marginalized people, people who present with symptoms outside standardized symptom sets, & people who don’t want to be “cured” of their neurotypes.

I know, because it was literally less than a week ago that the last time this discourse popped up & I got called names & had my diagnoses questioned was, & guess what it was? Autistic men claiming autistic women must present exactly like them or else they couldn’t be autistic.

I’m sorry OP, & I get that you’re feeling frustrated. But you’re not in good company with this tweet.