Alright, well it's apparent you don't intend to address that chief issue.

I disagree, though. Most people with chronic mental illness have a reduced capacity due to the need to reduce stressors and manage illness / take preventative steps to reduce episode severity / duration, disruptions caused by the illness or episodes of illness, medications required to manage the illness, changes in medications, and recovery programs and hospitalisations. This isn't some slanderous remark to dismiss people. This is the reality of living with illness of this kind.

I know this first hand. I grew up around mental illness. I am mentally ill. Most of my friends are mentally ill (due to community involvement). I am in this system, as are the rest of them. I know the situation, and I know the confronting reality for me and others like me. The current state of things for those who suffer chronic mental illness is nearly identical to those who are suffering from chronic illness in general. Something I am also keenly aware of, having been a carer for several years and growing up with a parent who has CFS.

I find it difficult to value anything you're saying past the point of that first sentence "That is ableist. Mental illness is often episodic and range of functionality is broad." Particularly given I said as much (regarding functionality) when I said that there were people that could commit, but that they were not the majority.

Absolutely people feel silenced, but in saying something stupid like "that's ableist" you're completely ignoring the fundamentally disabling component of chronic mental illness, how isolating it is, and how difficult it is to actually live with and manage.

To not consider those things adequately in a call to action, and to dismiss them in the way that you did, speaks to being totally out of touch - either with the people you want to act, or with what the advocacy and movement building process is actually like.

I mean, at the very least, I would have expected you to show a little more restraint on the basis that my mental health status is right there on my flair. But you even went as far as to patronise me, as though I didn't know what episodic illness was like.

Seriously, I'm gobsmacked. Get a grip. Keep the tumblrisms to yourself.