“mental illness isn’t artistic or romantic” should be something told to NTs when they treat mental illnesses like a trope, not to mentally ill people who express themselves through art and relate to brainweird aesthetics
Someone: why aren’t you driving yet?
Me: Idrk haha 🙂
Me, internally: driving is a huge responsibility and power and I’m afraid that my anxiety will cause me to panic when I get confused while on the road and possibly hurt someone and that’s not a stress I’m mentally prepared to deal with right now or possibly ever
my brain: i dunno, it just feels fake
me: what does
my brain: everything