Mikey Way {This is not mine. I saw it on Tumblr and thought it deserved to be seen}

I feel like Mikey doesn’t get enough credit for his struggles. While there are thousands of posts about what an inspiration Gerard is for kicking alcoholism and drug addiction, I can count on one hand the number of posts I’ve seen about Mikey, even though he’s gone through the same nightmare. I get why he hasn’t gotten much credit recently, after Sarah accidentally led us all to believe that he’s a drug addict, but even before that, this fandom hasn’t acknowledged it much. Even after that interview where he revealed for the first time his experiences with depression and addiction, I remember seeing a lot of “I’m glad Gerard stood by him” and even a few people who thought Gerard single-handedly saved his life, but not much admiration for Mikey himself.

He confirmed in a recent interview that he’s recovered from addiction:

"The song speaks to me, because, as I’ve talked about before, I’m a drug addict, I’ve been a drug addict my whole life," he said. "And I’ve recovered, come back from the mountain, but that song still speaks to me. I listen to it and it hits home."So either the rumors weren’t true, or he did relapse but he recovered. Either way, I think he deserves some credit, especially since he’s honest about it. He doesn’t pretend that he’s cured or brag about what an inspiration he is: he flat-out says “I’m a drug addict, I’ve been a drug addict my whole life.” I think that takes courage.

Besides the alcoholism and addiction, he’s struggled with severe depression and anxiety, he’s contemplated suicide, and he starved himself when he was a teenager. He’s also been bullied to hell and back by the Internet, and after MCR split I figured he’d fade into obscurity, tired of the stress. But he’s back as the frontman of a new band—an impressive feat, considering his past self-consciousness and anxiety—with new songs that he wrote/co-wrote himself. And as a friend of mine put it, he could have popped up on Twitter, dropped the news about Electric Century, and left. But instead he’s talking to fans, faving their tweets, answering their questions, posting photos on EC’s Instagram, and sometimes just saying “hi!!!” He’s not obligated to do any of that after the way the Internet’s treated him, but he’s doing it. He’s handled the whole thing way better than I would.

Anyway, let’s give the little guy some credit. I’m the first to admit that he’s not flawless, but his struggles have been just as traumatic as Gerard’s, and his accomplishments just as impressive.
Nobody is flawless and it really pisses me off when bandoms think the people in the bands are. Mikey’s gone through almost as much shit as gerard- maybe even more because he’s not the frontman everyone knows, he’s the bassist. He’s the quiet kid brother who is finally coming out of his shell. I’ll be damned if I wont support Mikey 100000000% because in my eyes, his story is just as brave and heroic as Gerard’s.

omg
this is exactly how i feel!

Amen to this.

Gosh, it made my eyes wet.

So true! I totally agree.

The thing is, I believe that Gerard, Ray, Mikey, and Frank are perfect. They may not be perfect in the way society wants them to be (chiseled body, heterosexual, cis-gender...well, normal), but they are perfect in different ways and for their own reasons. The guys (every one of them) have had childhoods that were centred around not wanting to let kids outside to play in fear that they would be taken, or hearing that someone was stabbed just down the street, and instead of falling into the clutches of the streets, they rose above. They've seen and done many things that I can almost guarantee you that I will never do in my life, and that makes them perfect.

I might be, like, 7mo late on this forum though.

God dammit, the feels

God dammit, the feels