"Companies tout their mental health benefits and neurodiversity initiatives right up until they encounter someone whose mental health needs actual accommodation."
https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2025-08-27-the_cost_of_transparency
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@jbz This. At my last place of work, they cheerfully joined “Mental Health Awareness Month”. Their initiatives? Encourage eating more oranges, as they are apparently rich in vitamins that increase dopamine levels, and FUCKING YOGA CLASSES.
｢ The Python community's response to my mental health advocacy has been particularly painful. This is a community I helped build, one that benefits from tools I created, yet it has systematically excluded me as I've become more open about living with schizoaffective disorder ｣
｢ "Communication style," "cultural fit," and "leadership presence" have become euphemisms for disability discrimination in performance reviews, providing legal cover for eliminating employees with mental health conditions ｣
｢ People can relate to feeling sad or worried; they cannot relate to experiencing reality differently. The moment someone learns you've had psychotic episodes, you become fundamentally Other in their perception—no longer fully human, no longer fully trustworthy, no longer safe to include ｣
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