I did not think you were being inflammatory or attacking me. I thought your response provided valuable perspective, and reminded us all that people are a diverse group that defies blanket categorization. I asked for your feedback because I just didn’t know how to fold that into my post, which as I said was the truth of what I experienced. I also wanted to help divorce criticism of people like Elon Musk from “accusations” of mental disability, which I don’t feel should be an accusation or “gotcha”.

I’m legally permanently disabled because of mental illness, and I live on permanent disability. I’m lucky in that I’m physically and mentally capable, but even so I’ve experienced a fair bit of well-meaning and malicious misunderstanding. It’s of course worse and more consistent for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities to be judged, and I don’t want to be part of that. That’s why I’m taking our conversation seriously.

I’m not going to delete my post because I stand beside what I said, but I did include the following edit: “Edit: After discussion below, I think it would be right and humanizing to add that although my time with that group was positive, the mentally disabled are people like any of us and will run the spectrum of friendliness, happiness, and social capability.”

I don’t think that will interrupt the flow or message of my post, and will address some of the context you’ve provided.