Being forced to advocate for yourself is a form of outsourcing. And it’s unpaid, exhausting, and often emotional exertion.
Systemic issues could be fixed by those in power, but it’s quicker & easier to say we just didn’t try hard enough to advocate for ourselves.
Demanding that we self advocate also means the individual is the one at risk for withdrawal of care as retaliation, an issue which is not acknowledged by those who want us to continually self advocate.
This is the problem I have with self advocacy.
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