Things I wish people would stop making jokes about -hearing voices -needing therapy -taking “crazy” pills -asylums and mental hospitals -seeing things/having visions -delusional thinking -mentally ill people in general like just stop
This. Ableism against mentally ill people, especially those with psychosis, delusions, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, etc., is so so pervasive and so so harmful.
But what about people who have actually been to mental hospitals, see things and take medication. I make jokes about it as kind of like a defense. I’ve been to a mental hospital three times and I like to joke about it.
You know what bothers me? When I see a person, usually a girl, who’s had plastic surgery and I express how gorgeous I think she is (not because of her surgeries, I’m not always aware of that anyways) and some butthead, usually a girl, butts in and goes “oh but she’s had work done though” like that’s supposed to make me think less of her. No. Go away. I want to appreciate this person’s beauty in the present time we’re in. The past doesn’t matter unless they want it to. I don’t want to taste your bitterness. Girls, we can’t tear each other down like dis.
YES
Also, society weirdly does not apply this to things like braces? Like you don’t hear people say things like “Oh thats not their real smile, they had work done.”
