drunken-rambling reblogged your post: 

Wait, are you arguing that there aren’t any hypochondriacs on the internet?

I’m not, I’m saying who are we to judge who is and who isn’t?

drunken-rambling replied to your post: 

I don’t understand the question. What does who we are have to do with what we should assume?

Because ‘we’ in this context are readers of someone’s blog. I fail to see how anyone can designate another person as ‘mentally ill’, ‘hypochondriac’ or ‘attention seeking’* on the basis of a blog: anything designated is conjecture at best… and how necessary is it for us to ‘diagnose’ others anyway, especially when many of these others are perfect strangers?

*not my phrase: I could write a whole other post on the negative connotations surrounding ‘attention seeking’ and how messed up they are

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  1. drunken-rambling said: I don’t understand the question. What does who we are have to do with what we should assume?
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