tbh the best way that i explain to other people what it feels like to live with an anxiety disorder is the one time when i had to get a fingerprint and background check done for a job and i, someone who has never received so much as a speeding ticket my whole life, spent thirty minutes panicking that i would fail because i might secretly be a criminal and have no idea
this is the exact response that mass surveillance and the threat of state violence are intended to produce. interpreting it as an individual pathology is only possible for people privileged enough to be certain they will never actually have to deal with the ramifications of police brutality or the tsa, both of which do in fact target ‘law-abiding’ people in addition to ‘criminals.’ please think critically about the implications of dismissing these fears as not only misplaced but diagnosably so.
literally this isnt “living with an anxiety disorder” it’s just living with policing