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Seymour
Guest
I heard a radio story this morning on CBC regarding Mad Pride.
The LAST thing I would want to do is celebrate the freaked out nutjob in a wretched suit who storms around downtown screaming and grunting very loudly & aggressively at people while having some kind of a hallucinatory internal experience that they can't control. Or to celebrate the clearly mentally disabled individual on the subways who has clearly been using their plastic bag clothes as a toilet for some time, creating a 5 metre area around them during rush hour because of the disgusting stankness.....or the messed up people with tourettes and/or schizophrenia from rooming houses who walk around downtown in ages-old rotting clothes stinking up the general area mumbling and clicking to everyone's dismay. And terrifying children.
Listening to this promo for "Mad Pride" simply brought to mind these horrendous human experiences and despite everything (there being many levels to mental illness, I understand this) it was the LAST thing I would ever want to celebrate or draw attention to.
I guess it's the extremes of mental illness that come to mind when something like Mad Pride is raised, and it's very very unappealing.
http://www.blogto.com/city/2009/07/mad_pride_breaks_the_stigma_of_mental_illness/
The LAST thing I would want to do is celebrate the freaked out nutjob in a wretched suit who storms around downtown screaming and grunting very loudly & aggressively at people while having some kind of a hallucinatory internal experience that they can't control. Or to celebrate the clearly mentally disabled individual on the subways who has clearly been using their plastic bag clothes as a toilet for some time, creating a 5 metre area around them during rush hour because of the disgusting stankness.....or the messed up people with tourettes and/or schizophrenia from rooming houses who walk around downtown in ages-old rotting clothes stinking up the general area mumbling and clicking to everyone's dismay. And terrifying children.
Listening to this promo for "Mad Pride" simply brought to mind these horrendous human experiences and despite everything (there being many levels to mental illness, I understand this) it was the LAST thing I would ever want to celebrate or draw attention to.
I guess it's the extremes of mental illness that come to mind when something like Mad Pride is raised, and it's very very unappealing.
http://www.blogto.com/city/2009/07/mad_pride_breaks_the_stigma_of_mental_illness/