Condo Chronicles

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We’re flooded with the slogans.
📺 Ads.
📱 Posts.
🧵 Hashtags.

Mental health is health.
Sure. Sounds lovely.

Now let me tell you what it looks like inside an actual community when you’re the one living with mental health and neurodivergence.

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🏢 Life Inside the Community: Where Words Go to Die

In this community, mental health is only “health” as long as:

• It’s quiet
• It doesn’t inconvenience anyone
• It doesn’t require effort
• It doesn’t challenge authority

The moment it does?
The tune changes fast.

Suddenly you’re not a neighbor – you’re a problem.

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🗣️ Disclosure = Punishment

They say: “Speak up. Be open.”
Reality says: “Confess and we’ll use it against you.”

The minute you disclose:

• Your credibility drops
• Your motives are questioned
• Your tone is scrutinized
• Your reactions are pathologized

Everything you say becomes evidence of what’s “wrong” with you – not of what’s wrong with the system.

That’s not support.
That’s surveillance.

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🧩 Accommodation Treated Like a Moral Failing

🛠️ Accommodations here aren’t treated as rights.
They’re treated as:

• Personal favors
• Excessive demands
• Special treatment
• Annoyances

You’re expected to justify yourself endlessly – to people with no training, no expertise, and no humility.

If you push back?
You’re “difficult.”

If you persist?
You’re “obsessed.”

If you break under pressure?
You’re “unstable.”

Funny how that works.

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☕ Hallway Sympathy, Boardroom Cruelty

This community has mastered a particular hypocrisy:

💬 “Oh, I totally support mental health.”
👀 (whispered in hallways) “She’s a bit much, isn’t she?”

Support evaporates the moment:

• There’s conflict
• There’s cost
• There’s accountability

People nod in private…
Then stay silent in meetings…
Then complain afterward like spectators at a sport they refused to play.

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📣 Slactivism Is the Community’s Favorite Sport

Posting is easy.
Acting is hard.

So people choose:

• A Facebook share instead of a vote
• A like instead of a spine
• Gossip instead of intervention

This is slactivism – activism without risk, without effort, without consequence.

And the people paying the price are always the same ones.

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⚠️ The Unspoken Rule

Here’s the rule no one admits out loud:

You’re allowed to have mental health issues – just don’t let them affect us.

But mental health does affect life.
That’s the whole point.

Expecting otherwise is pure ignorance.

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🔥 So Let’s Be Honest

If mental health were truly treated as health in this community:

• I wouldn’t have to fight to be believed
• I wouldn’t be punished for asserting boundaries
• I wouldn’t be framed as the problem for naming real harm
• I wouldn’t stand alone while others whisper agreement

But here we are.

So no – don’t sell me slogans.
Don’t sell me campaigns.
Don’t sell me your carefully worded posts.

Show me action. Or spare me the performance.

Because those of us living this every day?
We know the difference.