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Do you face stigma (or discrimination) in your family due to a mental illness that you have or that someone you love has? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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And if you’ve made strides in reversing that stigma, how have you done so?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

One of my cousins is on the autism spectrum and I am ADHD so we are in different neurological tribes than pretty much everyone else in the family. Neither one of us really connect with the rest of the family. It always felt like everyone else's brain ran in a different language and that language was mutually unintelligible with mine. And my biological family is almost entirely composed of conservatives so there is A LOT of hostility toward anyone that is different.