Or… “Fear what you have no direct experience with or perception of?”
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Pretty likely. Good awareness here.
Likewise. One of the great trade-offs that comes from observing to notice to recognize to acknowledge to accept to own to appreciate to understand one’s own “functional diversity.”
They don’t think they need to. They are surrounded with “social proof” that they are “okay” just as they are. (Unless or until they hit some boulder in the road that knocks them off of it.)
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I did until I met a retired NFL player whose knees were in such horrible shape that he could barely walk after 14 years in the league and five Pro-Bowl appearances. He was – by the time I knew him – a successful TV and film actor… and one of the deepest people I’d ever sat around the Jacuzzi with. My stereotyping ceased then and there.
Unless you’re white, or, worse, a white male:
http://www.infowars.com/new-mtv-show-publicly-shames-white-people-for-what-theyve-done-in-america/
The last time someone told me to “check my privilege”, I told him I just had and it was “doing fine, thank you.”
I don’t worry about race for the most part. I divide people into the following groups:
- Useful
- Useless
- Dangerous
You can guess where I stack jocks.
Pixel.
I’m trying to behave better in this department, but on the infrequent occasions where I meet a jock with higher brain function, I’m thinking “outlier” more than anything else.
Pixel.
And that would mean that they are guilty for freezing in the imaginary / mirror phase. As they have a nice and pleasant projection of themselves whenever they look in it.
How can i not envy them 
- Mouse enters room, drops transcript on table and plops muscular body on couch.
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Proof that outliers can have their own outliers.
So there.
Pixel.
You don’t fit anywhere 
that makes me feel so alone and left out 
You fit in with the people worth fitting in with. 
Pixel.
I meant in good sense. You don’t fit in the boxes Mouse.
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Yes, ma’m. Exactly. (Is this Jung? I can’t recall.)
You know when kid wants to be praised for a well learned lesson…
Yeah i do take a sleep breaks. 
Thank gott for that.
I think so. They are sometimes being depicted as simple (which is perceived as negative), morally lesser persons, and even as the ones who are actually, or more sick than we are. I think there is some prejudice both ways. Whether it is plain stigma or part of schizophrenia I’m not sure. I mean there is this trend in our thinking of having unlocked a higher/deeper/more profound truth/reality in our delusions and hallucinations. I think the same trend returns even if it is not based directly on hallucinations and delusions taken to reveal something, but on the suffering of mental illness itself. The idea that this suffering unlocks deeper insights and places us in a more profound position. It seems to me that we have to get something out of this, and, as always, if it doesn’t present itself we will find it.
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Maybe, but they don’t care unless we get in their way.
profound ■■■■ yo. You totally belong in the philosophy master’s program you are in. You’re one of the brightest people on here.
And you’re congruent with what I think- we are romanticized as being wise and there are also hard facts to back up the notion of us persons with schizophrenia as being “special” in a positive way. We cannot be hypnotized, we see through optical illusions more easily than normal people, we have word association ranges in the level of genius despite most of us not being geniuses, and we with the higher traditional intelligence quotients (sorry, have to bring up IQ, I know I sound elitist when I do but dammit I am stating science) along with lower negative and higher positive symptoms are often more highly functioning and are supported as of late to be possibly a clinically distinct subtype of schizophrenia. That’s a blend of science and romanticism for ya, we brighter and more stereotypically “mad” people are being categorized as being “highly intelligent” yet “very crazy”.
You’re a master’s student for ■■■■■ sake. I am a senior doing a thesis in psychology with a 3.9 and lifted 405lbs five times repeatedly today. Guess if we make the cut for this “possibly clinically distinct” subtype.
And @notmoses is obviously extremely intelligent and educated COUGH MASTERS IN PSYCH COUGH “Mr. Notmoses, M.S.”
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