The state should never be in charge of determining who is autistic or not, who is Mad or not, who "really needs" meds or not. These are the people's tools that have been held hostage by the institution of psychiatry. The psychiatric carceral state holds our people's healing tools hostage. Gatekept and barred behind insurance and instittuional education and licensure and carceral / colonial ideologies and practices meant to disempower us from taking action in our own communities, politically identifying as an oppressed group, and recognizing the root of our distress and suffering.
Our struggles have always been interconnected. The skills of discernment and nuance will be critical as we move forward in our liberatory resistance work. We must remember that our individual right to access medication should not bypass our collective solidarity with psychiatric survivors and psychiatrized people who have experienced iatrogenic harm* at the hands of psychiatry and psychiatric medications.
The psychiatric carceral state holds our people's healing tools hostage.
We are entitled to all options and pathways that we choose - that we deem to be supportive and helpful and necessary for our own bodies, minds, and spirits.
#PsychSurvivorsSpeak
#PsychiatricAbolition
#HandsOffOurMeds
