Honestly, I feel like it can, but there must be a sort of restriction in place. I do not have any mental nor physical illnesses, but I do understand that a lot people are uncomfortable with people taking illnesses too far. As far as I know, many people may use aesthetics as a coping mechanism, and that's awesome! However, I also know that a lot people are very extra with it. For example, I know a lot of people may make it their whole personality, or romanticize it, which is not okay. I've read some of the replies and got an idea to write this that is also not okay;

People without any illnesses using an aesthetic that includes a type of illness to try and become "unique."

That is obviously not okay. People with illnesses suffer (although it can vary in severity), and it is not okay to be completely fine and then try to fake an illness because you think it's quirky or will make you more different, because quite frankly, it won't.

So really in my conclusion, I think it's okay to have aesthetics that include illnesses, because people who have those illnesses will have something to cope with! On the other side, restrictions HAVE to be placed, and boundaries cannot be crossed. It's not okay to try and be unique with an aesthetic and real illnesses when real people are currently suffering.

@Sugarsky I totally agree with you, i've noticed a fad where people will fake being a system, and often use aesthetics like traumacore to add a more shallow "uniqueness" instead of being themselves which is unique in itself.

I'm not really into traumacore but i do like some aspects of it bc ive been throu some stuff (i dont really know if u call it "trauma",but more like bullying,family issues,ect.)i think its neat tbh

@A person sitting on a chair yes!! because faking something you're not is not unique at all. its better to just be you and people will actually like you more :)

Doesn't aesthetic mean seeing a certain thing as beautiful? Or appreciating the beauty of something? SO it wouldn't make sense for someone to appreciate mental illnesses when all it does is do bad. If people see depression or psychopathy as beauty then they might as well sit in a mental hospital or date a psychopath all because they have a mental illness-

Honestly it makes no sense at all.

@Wedoaliltrollinghere

An aesthetic isn't always seen as beautiful.

The aesthetics based around mental/physical illnesses or neurodivergencies are used as coping mechanisms and aren't beautifying or fetishizing those issues.

They are seen as a way for those individuals that fall under those categories to cope with the issues they face living in an ableistic/neurotypical society.

Voidpunk is a great example of aesthetics that're used as coping mechanisms, by adopting the label of "non-human" and embracing it.

-Goth (🖤/🖤s)

I 100% agree with goth. also, the second to last sentence about dating a psychopath made it sound like u were talkin about it in a bad way, which is kinda offensive to someone who has violent tendencies and thought i was a sociopath back in the day (i later found out it was my autism bc being violent and not showing empathy to people u hurt is actually a very common thing with autism)

@Tomobuba I'm so sorry that my comment seemed offensive. What I meant by, "you might as well date a psychopath" I meant that if one glamorizes mental disorders because it's q u i r k y, then chances are that if the person ever dated someone who was a psychopath, the only reason would've been because of the mental disorder and nothing else. Of course, one can date a psychopath and contrary to popular belief, some can be a average person and live a normal life.

OHHH OK now i understand lol srry

Um, can a person who doesn't have ADHD, autsim, etac.. can be a part of the aesthic?