As per co-optation, I have been endlessly persecuted by peers because I work in the system and take medication and have lived and worked in communities of color. I am against forced treatment totally. But if I had meds forced on me instead of the godawful therapy I went through, I might fit in more. But if a peer who has been through more shit than me believes in forced treatment, I’ll at least be curious to the story because peers come from different background classes, races and forms of incarceration and what one person is needing might be different than what others are needing. We have such a diverse society and those of us who are making generalization and speaking for all peers in there advocacy are so busy condemning and damning each other to hell for being different or selling out peer ethics need to heighten curiosity and stop infighting. I have hear many black people call the peer movement a white movement. Although I am white, I have lived and worked in communities of color and see that in the ways I am condemned for not fitting the mold. It’s just as hurtful and maddening.