Expectations of Self Hatred

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Do you feel that if a person is expected to hate themselves for issues such as having a disability, being in the wrong socio-economic group, being the wrong race, being the wrong religion, being the wrong size, making a bad decision or two (etc) that it could be considered to be a form of prejudice?

Unless a society or individual is prejudice against something or someone I see no reason why they would expect that something or someone to hate themselves.

Also, do you think that self-hatred is healthy and/or normal?

In my experience (and it may differ from yours), out present society (I am in the UK) seems to either expect you to experience extreme self-hatred or extreme self-love. I personally find this expectation to be unbalanced, irrational and unrealistic to the point of being psychologically derranging.

I think it would absolutely be a form of prejudice, to see expectations of self-hatred or assume someone hates themselves...for the latter question, I don't think self-hatred is healthy but I do think sometimes it can be a normal thing for people. For example, I have self-hatred but it is always harbored inside of me, and it's just something I tune out or try to isolate it and view it as a separate entity of thought from my real, rational thoughts.

Depends what you mean by “self-hatred”? hate the disability you suffer from or the fact that you may be poor maybe, but hating yourself is an extreme.

Maybe you mean low self esteem that can be caused by many things like being over-weight, disabled or too much rejection.

Many NTs may expect an autistic person to have low self esteem because of the problems it causes for relationship rejection, independence & employment.

I've seen a lot of expectations of self-hatred across personal and collective attributes be it innate or acquired.

I came from a culture with a reputation to have questionable ethical identity, and it is labeled as 'broken' by some narratives.

Along with other attributes; colored skin and the usual associations over it, overall economic status and the assumption over poor financial situations, assumptions of unpunctuality and being unsuccessful, etc...

That's just the majority of said culture.
Let alone personal effects that are more specific to one's circumstances and in marginalized groups within said collective within of that culture.

Yeah, it's layered. It more than just NTs and autistics.
Of course it's a form of prejudice.

And this is a culture that receives a lot of that.
And also towards itself for some reason because history and context and whatever influential BS -- making it self-perpetuating, generational...



Yet I honestly could've care less about one's own sentiment -- I care more of the outcomes out of that sentiment.

Does one's hate towards serve the greater good? Does one's self-hatred serve into a beneficial purpose?
Does hate help those in need to move on? Motivate progress? Point into a better direction?

I'm aware it's as unhealthy as drinking poison.
But even poison can be turn into a medicine if taken rightly.

Until then, society as people knew it in general is too poisoned. Still too sick to be trusted in matters beyond it's addiction that made it self-addled.

The only way to heal itself is to stop it's addiction; namely stopping the cycle.

Some people at large are recently realizing this; stop passing the BS to the next generation.

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