tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033598682489350651.post3709769217888466693..comments2023-05-27T01:53:21.676-04:00Comments on Diane L. Major: "As soon as we have achieved normality - whatever that is."Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033598682489350651.post-17389973932704207112015-12-22T14:48:53.191-05:002015-12-22T14:48:53.191-05:00Yoiks, and my apologies. I did not mean to rant at...Yoiks, and my apologies. I did not mean to rant at you!<br /><br />Troy, that violence quote has long been a good guidepost. People get almost as queasy looking at others honestly as they do looking at themselves that way, eh?DLMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08768285199864217885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033598682489350651.post-31583743123813429092015-12-22T14:47:29.129-05:002015-12-22T14:47:29.129-05:00Paul, he's a good guy, and might quite like a ...Paul, he's a good guy, and might quite like a little more understanding. We were talking last night about Douglas Adams' SEP field (and *hint, hint* regarding the provenance of this post's headline) - http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Somebody_Else's_Problem_field - the way we render those things we can't deal with invisible, by presuming they are not our problems.<br /><br />This is mental illness. It's simultaneously inescapable and yet the very thing that people treat as irrelevant because they don't know what to do with it. And it may be easier for me to be sensitive to it precisely because MOFF and I have not been face to face in a double-digit number of years; I *don't* have to deal with his depression and anxiety, not in a real-world way - and so, as sympathetic as I am to MOFF, his family's and friends' obtuseness is ... understandable.<br /><br />Even if it does seem damnably mean.<br /><br /><br />The reason I dragged writers into this is that I get itchy when WE stat throwing around the stereotypes, even about ourselves. It's no less lazy to submit the pose that "all writers are offbeat" than it is to propose that all ____ are ____, fill in any offensive or theoretically innocuous categorization you like.<br /><br />It strips people of the dignity of their individuality.<br /><br />And it's craptastic writing, for G-d's sake.DLMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08768285199864217885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033598682489350651.post-14988204397289182932015-12-22T12:17:55.181-05:002015-12-22T12:17:55.181-05:00This quote was written about the suffering of thos...This quote was written about the suffering of those in North and South Korea, but the sentiment also applies to those with mental illnesses:<br /><br />"To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence"<br /><br />- Andrei LankovTroyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14060534519761007708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033598682489350651.post-84573678848732263582015-12-22T05:27:05.316-05:002015-12-22T05:27:05.316-05:00MOFF seems like someone I'd like to know. I th...MOFF seems like someone I'd like to know. I think I'd understand him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com