ATL Artist and Psychic's blog: "Random Rantings"

The battle for rights and acceptance is far from over. Finally being gay or having an alternative lifestyle sexually speaking is gaining traction and well on its way to being totally accepted. However another battle remains and in this case will be far more difficult for even GLBT to comprehend. Mental Illness.

Tell me what do you think of when you think of someone who is mentally ill? Someone who sees the world in a different way or someone like Hannibal Lector? How about something in the middle? SO many ways to look at it and almost every time the uninformed and uneducated will have it wrong. Its like having a fear of spiders for humans fear and hate that which they do not understand.

Sadly it is not uncommon thinking for those who suffer from a mental psychosis to be barred from reproduction. Even those my age in the 20s and 30s have this Nazi way of thinking that it is the greater good that those who are ill and can genetically pass on these illnesses should be denied. Really what gives them the right? Who can dictate such morals? Is it so fair to believe that we must so alittle evil to achieve a greater good? Not in this case.

Because we seem to be in the business these days of educating and indoctrinating young and old into accepting those who are alittle different. We should hit the ground running on those who are ill in the head. The less enlighten need to be told that these people are quite functional and rational of course with some help. Its just like someone who has learning disabilities, they dont have a less than normal ability to learn they simply learn a different way.

So please take this moment and consider what I have said and realize that while we cant change the system as a whole it wouldn't take more than half an hour of reading on the internet to learn what it means to be mentally ill. Most of us are so functional as people that you wouldn't know we had anything unless we told you. Infact it is not uncommon for those who do suffer from mental illness or even disabilities to be superior in intelligence than those who are not afflicted. 

Just a bit of advice for the ill: WHEN DATING EVER MENTION YOU ARE ILL. Wait until you have a relationship and it is solid and then bring it up. If he/she loves you like they say they do then they will see past that. So timing is right but at the same time dont wait until he/she finds your medicine and demands to know what you take it for. Chances are she thinks is from drug used for recreation and even worse if its something potent and he/she goes on the internet and finds out what they are used for and it can be too much a brutal truth to take in. No one needs to find out that a you may take a potent anti psychotic that at one point was thought to be a chemical lobotomy. They will be completely missing the fact that dosage can really show what the person has and how bad.

So please understand that while we may see and hear things that arent there. we may have a Christ complex or we may talk to ourselves or have strange ideas and even sometimes dont make sense; We are no different than any other and we are of sound mind as long as we admit we have an affliction and are getting help with it. We can be the most amazing people in the world like Winston Churchhill who was considered insane or even Albert Einstein who had the Aspbergers, the psychosis aliment on the autistic end. Accept us for who we are. You have accepted those with alternative lifestyles so take another step and accept us!