November 2011
Public Service Announcement
Due to the sudden flood, I’ll be temporarily closing the ask box for this blog. Until then, feel free to address your complaints to my personal blog. You’ll be annoying a lot less people there.
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Anonymous asked: The only thing that puts me off visiting this Tumblr page is the people complaining about it. Really, shut up.
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microwavedhamster-moved-deactiv asked: Wait, as for the other person saying that someone must be blind to not see something is abliest, but that doesn't mean they're stupid. It means blind as in literally unable to see something. It's not abliest at all. This is a metaphor. In reality, you have someone who can understand a subject. In the metaphor, there's a blind person who cannot see an object. I really don't...
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captainjerkway asked: The reason "blind" is ableist is for only when you're using it in a negative metaphor. Saying someone must be blind for not understanding a concept would, in that example, equate being blind with being unintelligent. That is what makes the word ableist - when you make it a negative quality.
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basedmcgoats asked: I would like to point out that offense is not the issue. Hurting people with oppressive language is.
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Anonymous asked: Perhaps I'm being insensitive, but certain words [ie 'crippling' and 'blind'] have a metaphorical meaning as well as a literal one. You were using the metaphorical meaning, not the literal one, and if people don't get the difference, it's hypsensitivity on their part. Also, if the word 'blind' is ableist, than what are we supposed to call people who...
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seatentsina asked: It's not whether the terms are attached to intangible concepts or human beings - it's that the terms were used to describe something negative, and those terms are also used to describe human beings, and so it implies that the negativity applies to human beings as well. I personally wasn't offended, and I think your blog is great, but I think clearing up things like this is...
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Anonymous asked: "I’ve always interpreted ~isms as being contextual and based on intention" One point: isms still effect people regardless of intent. If someone doesn't mean to be __ist, but still offends, that person is wrong. Even if it was supposed to be a "joke" or if they did it unwittingly, It's still an ism. Intent means nothing.
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Anonymous asked: your meme is fine, dont worry about what people are saying. no matter what you do, people are going to not like it. i think its funny and i have (several) mental illnesses. those that have a problem with it just dont have a sense of humor. i enjoy it, we all need to learn to laugh at ourselves. we already have to live with serious illnesses, everyone needs to lighten up.
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basedmcgoats asked: Contextual intention has nothing to do with whether or not language is oppressive or damaging-- people are not psychic and intent is not magic. Words can hurt despite what one may have intended and those words are inherently ableist.
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soultired asked: I really liked this meme, which is why I submitted a bunch to it, but that map you posted and your total dismissal of people's legitimate criticisms and concerns has me really angry and upset. "Crippling" and "blind" are terms that should be used incredibly carefully, and just because you don't know about doing damage to someone doesn't mean you haven't. ...
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Anonymous asked: Please, PLEASE post more memes. I love them so much!
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imaginaryhowlings asked: See, when your dealing with a blog based on mental illness, humor,, and mor eimportantly beinf read by people who are mentally ill (myself included) There is someone who is always going to be offended. That's just the way of the game ;) You just have to know that what your posting is in humor and is not intentionally offensive and let naysayers fall to the wayside. :) I love your blog. dont...
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qkw asked: Aren't you ever worried that you might actually offend someone else with a mental illness to a damaging point?
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tearingdownthatfence asked: Re: the map you posted earlier. It is neat, yes, but it also contains ableist language. Specifically, "blind" and "crippling". Which is problematic, especially on a blog like this.
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labrujaja-deactivated20120219 asked: How are you feeling today?
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Anonymous asked: are you male or female?
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hemlockeater asked: Please don't hate me for pointing this out, but in the confession that says "'You're just shy'/No, I'm pretty sure I'm antisocial," I think it should say asocial instead of antisocial. Antisocial personality disorder is an illness in which the person cannot empathize with others or distinguish between right or wrong. The person behaves defiantly, or in some...
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qkw asked: Just wondering, do you have a mental illness yourself?
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ecstasy-acid asked: this blog. thankyou.
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whatfreshhellisthis asked: :| really, we're taking pot shots at people with psychosis now. Come on guys, not all of us have the more "socially acceptable" mental illnesses; if someone is upset by a joke at their expense that is totally valid.
Otherwise love the blog.
Otherwise love the blog.
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carosello asked: well, I suppose if you can't laugh at it, you're either taking it too seriously or you're too busy listening to the jokes inside your own head to laugh at it.
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Anonymous asked: I'm not sure what the meme said other than something about voices being healthy. But I'd like to point out that even though you worded it like it only related to schizophrenia, there's plenty of other mental disorders that involve auditory hallucinations, such as voices. I'm bipolar and experience them.
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carosello asked: have you deleted it yet? just wondering. I went back to look at it. is it the one about the voices agreeing you're healthy? if so, how is THAT OFFENSIVE? as someone with a real mental illness, i think it's funny-ish
Public Service Announcement
It appears a lot of the offence people are getting from the meme is coming from the first post I published. As I explained in my answer to this ask, it has never been my intention to be offensive, so I will be deleting it even though no one has specifically asked me to yet.
Again, I am always open to these sorts of comments.
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hillidelphia asked: I really enjoy your blog, because (it's not weird) to make jokes about problems you have, and it seems to make it not think it's a totally a bad thing to have. I mean, my whole family has/had some mental problem of sorts, or they don't want to admit they do. I'm happy to have found this blog/meme/thing.
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fantasticfemme-deactivated20120 asked: One of my followers took serious offense to your first post. Comment?
It appears we've hit 200 followers already.
WHERE DO YOU ALL KEEP COMING FROM??
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Anonymous asked: hey. do you have any ocd specific ones?
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imaginaryhowlings asked: Hey :) I wanted to submit a meme but it seems you only allow text posting? Or am I failing and doing it wrong XD anyway, as an undiagnosed mental train wreck...i may end up being one of your regular contributers if i can get it to work
[Image: 18-piece green-coloured background with a common house mouse. Top text reads: “Have a good day” Bottom text reads: “Feel that you don’t really have mental illness”]
Submitted by thatqueerchick
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100 followers!
(Actually 107 right now. We hit it…while I was in class.)
I’d like to say some happy words, but I think now is a better time than any to address some issues. Now that Mental Illness Mouse is getting a bit more popular, I would like to reiterate a PSA that I posted while it was still kind of getting off the ground: Please tell me if I ever post anything offensive. This is not, has...
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movedtowonderfulrocket asked: This blog cheers me up during my manic depression episodes, thank you for putting a smile on my face. :)
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