Personally, as a person with add and depression. I don't like the fact that many styles and aesthetics are associated with illnesses that cause me pain and difficulty in everyday life. I honestly think It's inevitable and pretty ingrained in western culture that being unique is something to strive for, and some people take it the wrong way.

As a system, we find deep comfort in the aesthetics that are related to trauma, neurodivergencies, mental illnesses, and physical disabilities.

Our body is physically disabled, and it's been in and out of the hospital for quite a bit of its life.

Also, in the innerworld, many of our headmates are physically disabled and need aids to move or service animals.

Many of our headmates are also neurodivergent and those of us that are use these aesthetics to cope with the fact that we're different and not "typical".

In our personal experience, the fact that we're unique has NOT been accepted or seen as something to strive for. (We live in a western society.)

-the void collective (it/itself)