I think there is a stigma, but I also think self injury is way more common and also more understood than it used to be. It's more talked about and less scary. I also don't expect others who don't do it to really understand it. I don't fully understand it myself. How can I expect anyone else to?

Some people are going to be compassionate and sympathetic and some people are going to be jerks about it. That's just the way it is. But it is much better than it was 25 or 30 years ago. At that time it was viewed as a symptom worthy of being locked away for. So things ARE better and hopefully they will continue to get better.