This is a very good point. And I'd add that in a society tuned for the "normal" participant, I'd add that many differences create the opportunity for situationa

This is a very good point. And I'd add that in a society tuned for the "normal" participant, I'd add that many differences create the opportunity for situational anxiety and depression that are invisible to people who are sufficiently "normal". E.g., living in San Francisco I know plenty of queer people who came here from more queer-hostile places. Or I remember a time before I moved out here when I spent a few days in a colo. It blew my mind that so many of the people walking in and out looked and talked like me. I realized that I had spent years being the odd nerdy person out without ever quite noticing how fraught that was. My baseline level of anxiety has dropped a lot living here.