jauxhoun:

fuckingradfems:

ughsocialjustice: Schizophrenia is becoming trendy? TRENDY?

Wow I never realised it’s so much fun. Oh god, I’ll … Yep. I’m just gonna say I’ll also be really pissed off if that happens. -The Non-Binary One Seriously? These little brats want schizophrenia now? Well, bitches, take mine! I forgot, it’s so much fun to be completely dependant on medication to be able to somewhat distinguish reality from everything else. Or what about not being on that medication and hearing people talking who aren’t fucking there? Or maybe the fun part is having people, including friends and family members be scared of you because they think schizophrenia=murderer. Yeah, this shit is just a big ball of fucking laughs and fun! Fuck this website.

I’m going to word vomit here for a second. Forgive me, I’m drunk, so this might not make sense. There’s your disclaimer.

I have a few theories as to why bad things - mental illness, physical conditions, rape survivor status, being non-white, trans*, etc. - have become trendy or even desirable in the recent years. I mean, yeah, people want to be special. I think the “special snowflake” component is definitely there. But that’s not going to drive someone to call themselves a schizophrenic when they’re completely healthy. IMO, at worst, they’d be one of those “I’m not one of those girls! I wear Vans and read all the time!” people. There’s something a lot deeper going on here.

We, as a culture, have fetishized the shit out of fantasy, surreality, difference and abnormality. We fed an entire generation of children the notion that growing up and being an adult is boring. Actually, not just boring - it’s a fucking tragedy. Being “stuck” in the cycle of normal adulthood, social conformity, and even basic functioning is considered a failure. You know exactly what I’m talking about. We’ve been bottle fed this stuff. Almost every story, every television show, every movie and every children’s tale made for this generation have told children that being outside the norm isn’t just okay, it’s ideal. That kind of shit then invaded teen culture and spread when we were the first generation to grow up with the internet. ‘Go to school. Work. Stay up with fashion. Watch TV. Die. Now repeat: I am free.' How many times have you seen that graphic? I can’t blacklist that shit enough. How about all the shit on Tumblr that fetishizes abject nonfunctioning - 27-year-olds who can’t pay bills, live off of cereal and have no social skills whatsoever? When we started producing media showing, for the first time, people who have differences from the Cis White Hetero Family - people of color, people with disabilities, LGBT folk, etc. - something went terribly wrong in our cultural perceptions. We started fetishizing the idea of being different. The “differentness” of their lives is shown as this kind of ideal. We made suffering beautiful. We made being forced into a position of being outcast or downtrodden in society a sort of perverse pleasure. It’s different. It’s an alternative to the tragic mundanity of being an average adult. There’s something about growing up that scares the millenials worse than any generation before them. I think they’re grabbing at anything that will give them reason to act differently, to feel differently, to buck the system, to avoid the conformity that has been so demonized and it’s a fucking shame they choose to go about this by appropriating identities and conditions that aren’t theirs. But it’s so easy to do. After all, we’ve been told that they’re no different from the White Cis Hetero family, so why shouldn’t they be able to call themselves those things too?

I am sick and tired of the culture of avoidance. Of immaturity. Of nonfunctioning. Of being contrary, of being unique, of being radical, of not fitting in, the culture of suffering and pain and nobody understands me. I’m tired of the culture of waiting for my knight in shining armor and society is soooooo sick and you can’t talk about X because you aren’t X. I’m tired of I never want to grow up and take me to Neverland!! and I’m an adult I say as I stay in my pajamas for three weeks and not talk to anyone and play Pokemon all day. I’m tired of a culture of misplaced, overgrown, bloated, misshapen, deformed nostalgia for a time when things were “different” because now we’re all “cogs in a machine.”



Saying they have schizophrenia is their ticket out of that machine.

Idk if that makes sense.