Mental health is something that is recently front stage due to Covid, but I’m not a fan of people who make fun of people who make fun of mentally disabled or mentally ill people.
Either they don’t know or understand… or they do know and are having fun at another’s expense.
I snapped off on the bus once because my dad… who apparently didn’t know I was bipolar… made a joke after I told him. Right after a woman on the bus joked about her friend being “a little bipolar.”
I probably frightened the main people near the front. My voice got louder on my phone call. And I loudly asked my dad why on earth he thought bipolarism was funny. I asked if he had any idea how much of a nightmare it was. And after I got off the bus, I stomped over half a mile… uphill in about 8 minutes. And still on the call.
I have bad joints and a bad back, but the rage was strong.
He apologized.
And the two women were quieter than church mice after that.
~J. Lyst
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