If you have to bring mental illness down to bring up physical disability, you are not an anti-ableism activist.
If you have to bring physical disability down to bring up mental illness, you are not an anti-ableism activist.
If you have to bring one mental illness down to bring up another mental illness, you are not an anti-ableism activist.
If you have to bring one form of disability down to bring up another form of disability, you are not an anti-ableism activist.
If your way of bringing awareness to mental illness is to say, “Disabled people don’t know what it’s like to have real problems. They have is so easy!” you are not an anti-ableism activist.
If your way of bringing awareness to disability is to say, “Mentally ill people don’t know what it’s like to have real problems. They have is so easy!” you are not an anti-ableism activist.
If you have to say, “People with x mental illness are so lucky. Everyone understands their illness and treats them with respect. They don’t know how hard ableism really is. They have it so easy!” in order to explain how y mental illness has it super hard, you are not an anti-ableism activist.
If you have to say, “People with x disability are so lucky. Everyone understands their disability and treats them with respect. They don’t know how hard ableism really is. They have it so easy!” in order to explain how y disability has it super hard, you are not an anti-ableism activist.
If you are only willing to fight for disabled people and/or mentally ill people who are white, cisgender, straight, perisex, thin, middle/upper class, etc., you are not an anti-ableism activist.
If you don’t listen to mentally ill and disabled people when they call out your ableism, you are not an anti-ableism activist.
Do not fight ableism with more ableism. That won’t solve anything. We all have to work together, no matter what conditions we might have, to combat the problem. Stop tearing each other down and start supporting and helping each other.
If you can’t do that, you are not an anti-ableism activist.