so much happening here:
Feels a lot like you’re saying all of those things are supposed to be synonyms for “crazy” and “insane,” which is honestly more hurtful to me as a mentally ill person than being called “crazy” or “insane.”
Thanks for starring out the letter A there. If I see those words entirely intact, I’ll probably spin into a manic rage and poop on the floor like a wild animal! Thanks for removing literally one letter so I only have to see 85% of the word, now I don’t have to start foaming at the mouth!
The words “crazy” and “insane” are actually really important words for a lot of mentally ill people, who use it as a necessary shorthand to express concern that our illnesses might be skewing our perceptions of reality. For example, “is it crazy that I’m so worried about this?” is a much more effective thing to say than “is this a legitimate concern, or am I just projecting my own anxieties and paranoia onto the world around me?” Treating “crazy” as an inherently hurtful slur in all contexts (even “just saying it with no context so people know which word you’re talking about” as above) takes away a “real or not real” shorthand from us.
Seriously this kind of post is so patronizing people stop doing them
I think they meant the post to be more for people who are all “Oh wow, X person is acting so crazy today, they snapped at me for no good reason” or “My mom is thinking about buying a new car and we don’t need one at all, it’s totally insane!” To not use those words to refer to things that don’t refer to mental illness and instead use better words that aren’t ableist and imply that being crazy is bad and annoying or something? But I agree with points 2 and 3 very much, I just feel like the OP was talking about things that don’t refer to mental illness and instead just people acting out of character to their normal self?
Yeah, being a mentally ill person, I actually have literally no problem whatsoever with using the words “crazy” and “insane” in contexts unrelated to mentally ill. That’s like, literally last on the list of “things that offend me.”
What bothers me is when neurotypical people use them in a context related to mental illness. If you want to describe the ending of Bioshock Infinite as “crazy,” I literally could not care less. If you’re about to equate “crazy” or “insane” with mental illness, including by saying “you shouldn’t say crazy or insane because it’s hurtful to mentally ill people,” then I’m going to be mad.
