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[ SECRET POST #3543 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3543 ⌋

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Of course, but it's not the same as actual self-harm. I don't know what's so confusing about that.

Something can be an issue without being the same issue.

I agree that it's a kind of different thing. But implicitly positioning them against people who are self-harming, like it's a competition for legitimacy, bothers me. I think it diminishes their problems, and I think it's harmful. When people talking about it as special snowflakes and implicitly saying that their problems don't count, and how people are just doing it to be trendy, that does bother me.

All I said was those people existed, which they did. I didn't position them against anyone.

As I said below, for example, teenagers who adopt gender identity labels to be cool and follow trends exist. Pointing that out doesn't mean you're calling all trans people fake because they obviously aren't. But do those people exist? Yes. Did people who pretended to self-harm exist? Yes.

The point was, fandom always had these kinds of people in it.

Well I would say that one of the things that bothers me here is that - at least on my reading - it seemed as though the conversation wasn't talking about "people who self-harm" and "people who pretend to self-harm". It looked to me like it was talking about "people who REALLY self-harm" and "people who self-harm, but just for attention". I hope you can understand why that troubled me a lot more. I apologize if I misread what was being said.

Ah, no, I meant the emo princesses of the 90s who would talk about it all the time but weren't actually self-harming. It was just trendy to be emo and sooo torn up inside.