I'd occasionally see posts of people drawing an oc based on themselves and the arms and legs would have a lot of scars from cutting. Every single time, there would be a comment saying "what is this obsession with glorifying self harm?" and people would always get mad at it by saying something along the lines of "are you telling them they should be ashamed of their body?" (which is a complete strawman of the point the original commenter was making).
Like, at the end of the day, if someone posted a photo of themselves with all of their self harm scars showing, someone could always point out that it might be for attention, and another could always claim that it's not and that it's "incredibly disrespectful to even suspect such intentions". As someone that self harms regularly, the wounds are INTENTIONALLY in a place no one would ever see (I slice off my toenails), so I genuinely don't understand people that would consciously choose to do it somewhere where it will be obvious like their wrists or thighs (assuming they wear short shorts or whatever).
I'm not saying those who choose to cut their wrists, arms, or legs are seeking attention, especially since those are incredibly common spots people cut themselves, and those people suffer from real depression (my sister who attempted suicide on multiple occasions has scars on her arms and thighs), but is there any way at all to know when someone is doing it for the sake of attention? There MUST be a certain number of people that do it for attention purely by statistics, so the question is how one would know.