I say when I agree with ppl & when I disagree. I don’t suggest my answers are for everyone. I think I’ve offended a lot of MH professionals here by doing this. I don’t defer. Not even to my own therapist. I don’t believe deference promotes MH. Allowing all voices to be heard does

And I don’t expect anyone to defer to me. Except about my lived experience and my right to have an opinion about things that affect it and are affected by it. If this makes me unpopular in spaces like this, so be it.

Note: thankfully my therapist doesn’t expect me to defer. A lot of therapists would have (even though they wouldn’t put it that way), and it wouldn’t have lasted long. I’m very lucky