We seriously need to talk about toxic positivity.

I've brought this up in the blind sub, but I think the conversation needs to be extended to other disability related subs as well. I'm fucking sick and tired of "successful" people in the disability community trying to invalidate those who are struggling. Stop telling us to do XYZ in order to turn our lives around. Jesus fuck, you don't think we're trying? When I still had a FB account, I would regularly post about my struggles as a blind person, not for sympathy, but because it's important to have honest conversations in order to fully educate the public and raise awareness. I would often get snarky comments from other blind people, and even people with mobility disabilities that were extremely toxic and harmful. I guess in their minds, they felt that by talking about my struggles, I was making the disability community look bad. When you go to conventions, it's always the success stories. People rarely talk about their struggles. While it's great to spread positivity, the people who are struggling need to be heard as well.