being mentally ill is just being fed up with your own shit 24/7 like oh my god are we really going to do this again can I have like one hour of peace just one fucking hour oh my god p l e a s e
I feel like neurotypical ppl tend to underestimate MI ppls level of self-awareness abt our disorders. Like, believe you me, I am well aware that my brain is a rampant shitshow. That doesn’t mean I can make it stop doing shit though.
we need conversion therapy to be illegal. we need parents to go to jail for doing this to their children. we need providers of conversion therapy to go to jail for offering a service that abuses and kills lgbt people. conversion therapy is a hate crime.
There was a lovely film made in 1935, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Haviland, called Captain Blood. It is the story of a doctor convicted of treason for medically treating a member of the Monmouth Rebellion. His punishment is to be sent to Port Royal as a slave. He escapes and becomes a pirate on the high seas, who forms a curious democratic brotherhood with his crew.
In the film, men are compensated for their service by being paid a portion of the booty. There is a sliding scale based upon injuries received- if a man loses an arm he received x, and a leg, y, and so forth. In one scene, the resident miscreant and liar decides that he will shoot himself in the foot to gain the slight boost in his salary. He shoots off his pinky toe.
When he goes up to collect his earnings, the first officer admonishes him: “You should’ve shot out your brains and left your toe for thinking with”
Stupid men think they are being clever. They almost always shoot themselves in the foot.
