(June 21, 2011 at 2:40 am)Anymouse Wrote:
I have a documented mental disability (besides my epilepsy), which was part of what forced me out of the military after seventeen years. Spent some fun times in places where they lock the doors from the inside.
I assure you (at least in this country) persons with such "disabilities" can and do give legal consent to all kinds of things, including sex and marriage. We can even get drivers' licences. And vote.
(Owning a gun is tricky, but we can run for office too. And if enough of us do the latter, perhaps we can reverse the designation "mentally ill" to the Tea Partiers. There are more of us.)
I think Rwandrall's point was more directed at people with developmental disabilities. Of course, that's not what's posted, but I don't think most people understand how all-encompassing the terms 'mental illness' and 'mental disability' are. Technically, I am mentally ill, but I have no cognitive impairment, which I believe was what was being referred to.
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
