(October 3, 2015 at 1:49 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: Do have any idea the mental and physical adjustments people like me go through? Learning to dress yourself? Learning to eat without making a total mess. The self-consciousness of going out for a walk. The sensory overload when suddenly you have to wait and listen for doorways? The overwhelming smells? The people who coddle you constantly? The loneliness because most people don't want to date a disabled woman? The -75% employment rate? Fighting tooth and nail to paid a proper wage? She's a total ass.
I get that, but do you have any idea what it's like to have a mental illness? Do you know what it's like to deal with intrusive thoughts you would do anything to make go away? Sure, on the outside what she has done seems callous, but you have to understand that just like your eyes don't work properly, neither does her brain. By judging her actions in such a manner and taking it personally you are holding her to the standards of someone whose brain does not malfunction, and that's no fairer than if I expected you to read this text.
Mental illness is as much a disability as any physical one, and it's time we recognized it as one.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
