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SC #5: Todd Talks to God
Religious bigotry is so, so not cool anymore.
Fun Fact: Shockingly enough, many, if not most, allosexual humans won't care if you don't really feel sexual/romantic attraction and want to be forever single.
But if you call it "being AroAce", some of them want to straight up murder you for some reason.
nobody hates poor people and minorities more than nondescript “leftists” and “MLs”
This is ridiculous. This is terrorism against children who live nowhere near Israel. You are doing this just because they are Jewish. You are a bigot; an antisemitic, violent, bullying piece of trash. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
Most of the world's problems are caused by the men who think they're somehow better than women.
More problems would be solved if a group of people stopped believing that they deserve to live more than another group.
TW: ableism against mentally ill folks, ableism
Here are some observations about how mentally ill people are treated.
When you’re a kid, your mental illness isn’t real. It’s bad behaviour. It’s this kid cries too much, let’s see if punishing this kid for crying too much will make them stop crying too much. Most crucially, it is never to be taken seriously, and you are not to talk about it, because if you use words that make us worry, you must be faking for attention. If you show your emotions though, instead of calmly explaining them, then you are immature and it is a behaviour problem. I experienced this the most at school. For me, it was ignored until I was old enough that my symptoms were taken suddenly very seriously.
If your trauma isn’t big enough or isn’t there at all, then why are you like this? You have no excuse. If your trauma is too big, then you’re exaggerating. It wasn’t that bad.
When you get a little older, your mental illness isn’t real, but it’s dangerous, it’s still your fault, and has to be stopped. Bad behaviour is now scary. If you’re not white, or homeless, you are especially dangerous. If you are struggling to take care of your mental illness by taking your meds and doing your therapeutic homework correctly, then it is even more your fault than it already was. You have to want to get better, see.
Additionally, if you don’t have a diagnosis that we think is bad enough, you’re faking. If you have a diagnosis that we think is too bad, then you’re crazy. If you don’t have a diagnosis at all, then we’re not going to help you. If it’s temporary, it wasn’t that bad, if it’s long-term, why aren’t you over it yet.
And of course we have empathy for you.
At no point is the mental illness understood for its experience from the perspective of the mentally ill person. At no point is it about what they need. It’s all about blaming them based on how you, from the outside, think their mental illness should work. It’s about finding patterns you think are there and hating people for both fitting and not fitting them.
I think this is how ableism often works against mentally ill people. People get killed because people believe these things, especially people with other marginalized identities. When people say have the assumption that everyone is a little mentally ill, (a little OCD, a little crazy on the inside) they are refusing to acknowledge that we are a community. It’s also hard for us to do activism, because mental illness can make it hard to do anything.
We’re not seen as a community that has a right to want rights and fair treatment, because our symptoms are seen as excuses for bad behaviour.
There are things I haven’t considered here. If you see this and you have another thought about how ableism works, please talk to me about it. I’m trying to understand this specific discrimination better. Talk to me about how your other identities intersect with this kind of ableism. If there are things I’m not seeing and you feel up to it, please let me know.