I'm not a fan of this discourse because it always leads quickly to Leftists letting people know that they think drug users are dirty or complete fuck ups. Untrustworthy to the core.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      No one’s going to criticise you if you need medication to function

      Don't be so sure about that. Lots of people are really weird about medication and disability. Straight edge kids, for one.

    • DinosaurThussy [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Can’t you appreciate that you’re the exception to the rule?

      I navigate life every day appreciating that I’m the exception to the rule as people talk about drug use. That’s kind of the point. It’s exhausting and whenever I bring up like, “hey you’re discussing or enforcing norms that would personally effect me or my friends or would have personally effected me in the past, so maybe I can offer some perspective,” I get told that I’m not who’s being discussed. Because I’m one of the good addicts. I got sober and I only take the drugs that my doctor says I can and I am able to pass as neurotypical long enough to go canvas or attend a meeting without being disruptive.

        • DinosaurThussy [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          Thank you for the clarifying edit above. I see what you’re getting at, yeah. My concern is mainly that there are, indeed, people acting on this intuition about sobriety and dysfunction. It’s good most of the time, but a slight change to the framing makes it more inclusive and has allowed several of my org’s best members to participate with us without any sort of disruption on our part or dysfunction on theirs.

    • usa_suxxx [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      As someone who used to be on ADHD medicine, the poster had the same vibe as my pharmacist. So maybe, calm down.