Prefacing this with the fact that a lot of people without BPD come here and give really thoughtful and helpful advice, and this sub is obviously welcome to everyone.

That being said, I feel like I've seen a lot of interactions where someone is giving very specific advice and opinions regarding BPD behaviors and how pwBPD feel about their own disorder, and it comes up that they don't have BPD but have had a girlfriend with BPD or something.

Now like I said, sometimes the insight is genuinely good and informative, but I still feel kinda odd about people without BPD who derive their knowledge from knowing one person with BPD coming here to tell people with BPD how they should be thinking/feeling about the disorder or how they should be acting. 

I feel like it would be good if people in this category would perhaps specify that they don't have BPD, because I usually make the assumption that if someone is giving targeted advice regarding a symptom or entering a discussion about our relationship to the disorder, they are speaking from personal experience.

This could very well just be my own judgment and baggage, but I'm interested as to how other pwBPD feel.

lemme know if i need to TLDR not sure how to make this shorter haha