Don’t mess with me I’ll go crazy on your tucas
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I like to be excentric.
I went crazy in front of a lot of people. I had to leave a cricket club for a couple of years but I went back. The old heads know about it and the newer people know I’m a little unhinged…but that isn’t a bad thing!
I’ve had my own team sledge me about being crazy and I just go along with it…that is Rogues…he’s a nutter…even the other teams get into it sometimes and who cares? Not me.
I’m happy in myself. Call me what you like…but I keep it mostly on the down low everywhere else…so who knows?
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I use it in my favor too… the bad folks around town might rob everyone else… but they think I could kill them and get away with it… I doubt I could…but if it keeps them from robbing me so be it… lol
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i’d like to say i’ve never felt much stigma, but it’s not one of the first things i tell a person when i get to know them either 
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“Crazy” is one of those over-used words that have lost their literal meaning as a result. I don’t care if someone thinks of me as or calls me crazy because they’re just expressing their discomfort and desire to separate themselves from me. Same as when I’m called weird or strange. I’m already separate so it makes no difference. It did hurt when I was younger because I hadn’t come to terms with it, but now I don’t care. Doctors and therapists don’t use the term “crazy”. It’s just a tool for other people when they don’t understand something.
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yup, that’s a really good point.
It doesn’t bother me if it’s a joke. But I already know I have limitations so when family or friends use my crazy against me, like throwing it my face, that just pisses me off and hurts my feelings.
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Yeah I like to be crazy for the most of the time.
I want to say that in addition to schizophrenia I have other health problems, but schizophrenia is the most severe.
I want to stay in Israel,
and make a revolution.
I will try to make a revolution in Israel.
I feel hurt when anyone calls me crazy, even if they’re joking. I already feel crazy, so it’s hurtful when anyone says it out loud, no matter the context. I’m still trying to process the fact that I have a psychotic disorder; I’m still really sensitive about it.
It doesn’t bother me if people think I’m crazy or know I have sz. But I don’t tell everyone of my sz either.
my brother calls me crazy from time to time and I don’t mind it. But if he meant it in a negative sense , yes it would bother me slightly.
I went to a date once … he kept going on about how annoying and crazy his Mum was. It felt so disrespectful to me. I decided that I’m not gonna see this guy again so I decided to tell him What Crazy really is. Poor guy was so uncomfortable. I paid for 90% of the meal … the intention wasn’t for it to be a meal so I didn’t have a lot of money . I paid because I didn’t want him to pay for date he was so uncomfortable with.
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The way I look at it, words like “crazy” are our words to use if we like, but not for normal people to use to describe the mentally ill. It seriously pisses me off when a mentally healthy person refers to those with MI as “crazies,” etc. So, it’s similar to how people of various races/ethnic groups can use certain terms for their people, while it is considered offensive for people outside of that group to use the same terms. I fully get how it’s offensive when the wrong person uses the wrong ethnic term.
As far as wearing my crazy as a badge of honor, it kind of is a badge of honor in a way, as I take a lot of pride in how much I’ve accomplished in spite of my illness. I don’t tell that many people about it, though; I have friends who don’t even know I’m sick.
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I’m rather neutral on it. I like the word eccentric too.
Words in and of themselves very rarely offend me. The intent or sentiment behind the words is what causes offense, in my eyes. We live in a society full of fragile people where you have to apologize for pretty much everything and where everything is considered triggering. People need to grow up. Almost everything can be interpreted as offensive, or not, depending of the intentions and the context.
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Yes when people refer to “crazy people”. I get offended. I feel like it makes me not a person like I instantly get discounted and nothing I say think or feel matters
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If anyone had had my life experiences they would be “crazy” too, so I don’t bash myself too hard for it.
nah… it doesnt bother me…
My military commander accused me of being crazy one time. I just told her that I wasn’t, I was just eccentric. She bought it.
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Not much offends me personally.
You can call me whatever you want, just don’t call me late for dinner.
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