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watching the news today i got really pissed off:
"I believe my mental illness had a lot to do with my actions," Lafave said in a news conference Tuesday with defense attorney John Fitzgibbons, referring to bipolar disorder. "I offer my deepest apology. I am very remorseful. I want the world to see that bipolar is real."
okay, we all know how i feel about bullshiting your mental illness up so you can get away with shit (it really pisses me off and i feel it does nothing but add to the stigma we're already burdened with)... but am i to believe that i, a 25 year old woman who suffers bipolar/schizoaffective disorder can have sex with a little boy my little brother's age and get away with it with a slap on the wrists because i'm a nutbag? i can do something totally immoral and wrong and it's all cool cuz i get these phases of illness where i'm highly promiscuos?
wow, and i have a double whammy, i wonder what else i can get away with? hmmm, the diagnostic critera says i hallucinate (though it doesn't seem to have much information on how frequently/what type of hallucinations, etc) so could i get away with something even more immoral because ummmm, lets see... gary busey was telling me to go for it all along? (note: my hallucinations don't include gary busey... yet... [i'm too real!!]).
seriously, i was reading something today about people who fake symptoms of mental illness based off of diagnostic criterea to get out of trouble, then i saw that bullshit speach that little whore gave on the news, couple that with a one sided argument where there's no way i (someone who sufferes from the disorder at hand) could be right due to crankiness of the other person and my lack of calm-me-down pills and i was off and running.
i mean, okay, i might be being a bit touchy about this, but goddamnit what the fuck? sure to someone who doesn't have to go through the bags of shit someone hindered with a mental illness has to they could prolly shrug something like this off. hell, me medicated this time last year could shrug it off i was so doped, but fuck, man! i mean, imagine if you had cancer or TB or some other socially acceptable illness only it's no longer socially acceptable...
imagine you've got to fucking lie about why you have to miss classes or work because your chemo made you tired, or you're just having a bad day physically and emotionally and cannot function properly. imagine you had to lie to aquaintences because you don't want the whole fucking world to know you're sick that you don't want to go out tonight because... ummm... you have to wash your hair or something similarly ridiculous. no wait, maybe you have to miss out on somethign you've been planning on for weeks or months? maybe people have stopped talking to you because you just have no energy or they don't trust you because you seem like you're hiding something... then, just as you see people becoming a little more accepting and might just tell people what's really wrong POOF some asshat on the news says she clubs baby seals because of her cancer.
i do realize i'm a little hypersensitive for many different reasons (hell, obviously, i'm up at 4:30am on a school night... WONDER WHAT PHASE I'M IN RIGHT NOW?!?!?!) but seriously - ever since i finally gathered my shit together and tried to lead a normal life i've realized it doesn't exactly make life easier to go around telling people you're a nutjob then trying to explain how that effects EVERYTHING in your life. it's much easier to just pretend like your normal and try to hide why you can't get out of bed today or why you haven't slept in 40 hours. and that's bullshit.
fuck you debra lafave, i hope you get syphilis.
"I believe my mental illness had a lot to do with my actions," Lafave said in a news conference Tuesday with defense attorney John Fitzgibbons, referring to bipolar disorder. "I offer my deepest apology. I am very remorseful. I want the world to see that bipolar is real."
okay, we all know how i feel about bullshiting your mental illness up so you can get away with shit (it really pisses me off and i feel it does nothing but add to the stigma we're already burdened with)... but am i to believe that i, a 25 year old woman who suffers bipolar/schizoaffective disorder can have sex with a little boy my little brother's age and get away with it with a slap on the wrists because i'm a nutbag? i can do something totally immoral and wrong and it's all cool cuz i get these phases of illness where i'm highly promiscuos?
wow, and i have a double whammy, i wonder what else i can get away with? hmmm, the diagnostic critera says i hallucinate (though it doesn't seem to have much information on how frequently/what type of hallucinations, etc) so could i get away with something even more immoral because ummmm, lets see... gary busey was telling me to go for it all along? (note: my hallucinations don't include gary busey... yet... [i'm too real!!]).
seriously, i was reading something today about people who fake symptoms of mental illness based off of diagnostic criterea to get out of trouble, then i saw that bullshit speach that little whore gave on the news, couple that with a one sided argument where there's no way i (someone who sufferes from the disorder at hand) could be right due to crankiness of the other person and my lack of calm-me-down pills and i was off and running.
i mean, okay, i might be being a bit touchy about this, but goddamnit what the fuck? sure to someone who doesn't have to go through the bags of shit someone hindered with a mental illness has to they could prolly shrug something like this off. hell, me medicated this time last year could shrug it off i was so doped, but fuck, man! i mean, imagine if you had cancer or TB or some other socially acceptable illness only it's no longer socially acceptable...
imagine you've got to fucking lie about why you have to miss classes or work because your chemo made you tired, or you're just having a bad day physically and emotionally and cannot function properly. imagine you had to lie to aquaintences because you don't want the whole fucking world to know you're sick that you don't want to go out tonight because... ummm... you have to wash your hair or something similarly ridiculous. no wait, maybe you have to miss out on somethign you've been planning on for weeks or months? maybe people have stopped talking to you because you just have no energy or they don't trust you because you seem like you're hiding something... then, just as you see people becoming a little more accepting and might just tell people what's really wrong POOF some asshat on the news says she clubs baby seals because of her cancer.
i do realize i'm a little hypersensitive for many different reasons (hell, obviously, i'm up at 4:30am on a school night... WONDER WHAT PHASE I'M IN RIGHT NOW?!?!?!) but seriously - ever since i finally gathered my shit together and tried to lead a normal life i've realized it doesn't exactly make life easier to go around telling people you're a nutjob then trying to explain how that effects EVERYTHING in your life. it's much easier to just pretend like your normal and try to hide why you can't get out of bed today or why you haven't slept in 40 hours. and that's bullshit.
fuck you debra lafave, i hope you get syphilis.
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also, i need to find the artical again but there was an artical about how woman sex offenders are treated differently from male. it brought to light a case that was almost identical to miss lafave's. the only difference? dude is in PRISON for TOUCHING LITTLE GIRLS!