# Things That Are Hard ![rw-book-cover](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ihM6!,w_1200,h_600,c_fill,f_jpg,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4aa79d2-fcf0-45a8-8888-cbcf0c63125e_2072x666.png) ## Metadata - Author: [[Freddie deBoer]] - Full Title: Things That Are Hard - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: People with psychotic disorders face unfair judgment because others see them as either completely sane or totally crazy. This black-and-white thinking makes it hard for them to get help or understanding when they struggle. We must accept that mental illness can cause difficult behavior and still deserve fair treatment and accommodation. - URL: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/things-that-are-hard - Source File: web-only ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > Of course, I should be very clear that I don’t expect people to get this just right. Because it’s hard. It’s hard to want to welcome someone into the space of your disarmed, vulnerable self while knowing that they might someday hurt you because of a mysterious, uncontrollable, animal illness. It’s hard to look at shitty behavior of the kind that anyone might be guilty of and never know exactly how much to weight their mental illness. It’s hard to live alongside someone whose personal culpability is never simple, whose control over their own behavior is always in question. That is very, very hard indeed, and if you have one of these conditions you’ll likely find that intimacy is available only among a very select number of people, usually people who knew you before you got sick, with a much larger ring of friendly acquaintances who don’t trust you and have good reason not to. This isn’t so bad and honestly suits my own preferences. But there is this ongoing problem of a world that says it believes in accommodation for those with disabilities but struggles to hand them out to anyone who isn’t well-liked. You see, it’s hard for us too. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k30qm93w8jr0vx2j6rw830gz)) > I’m interested in West as a figurehead because public attitudes towards him are so perfectly indicative of the absolute emptiness of modern disability rhetoric. He is a deeply sick person operating under the influence of a serious psychotic disorder. (He now claims not to be bipolar and blames his diagnosis on a conspiracy, which is about the most classically bipolar guy thing one could say.) ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k30qsh41h97nb0frszrr2gv3))