Okay so,,,
I have a friend, we’ll call him Timmy, who is also schizophrenic. Timmy is married, and he and his wife have decided they would like to have a baby. Timmy’s wife goes to her doctor to talk about starting fertility drugs. Timmy’s wife comes home very upset, because instead of recieving a prescription for fertility drugs, she was reccommended birth control, because her husband has schizophrenia (which can be genetic). Timmy’s wife tells me about how the nurse and doctor spoke to her in condescending tone about how it would be Wrong to potentially bring another schizophrenic into the world; despite how determined she is to love and care for them. Instead they pressure her to avoid conception entirely.
I have learned, as a woman with schizophrenia, that when I’ve said things along the lines of “I don’t want to have children because I don’t want to pass my illness on to my child,” then I am praised and given a pat on the back. However, when I say things like “I love kids! I want a whole bundle of them someday,” I get asked if I Am Sure, if I’ve Really Thought about it, and whether I Would Feel Guilty If My Child Also Developed Schizophrenia.
I am not a stain on a bloodline. I am not something to be eliminated from humanity. Your concern is not from a place of empathy; “I just want to prevent more people from suffering”. It’s from a place of toxic superiority. It comes from the same place that allowed schizophrenic people to be forcefully committed to sanitariums, tied down, and administered Electroconvulsive Therapy against their wills like animals in factory farms, up until Very Recently and even sometimes today. A slow genocide, is still a genocide.
Get fucked.
“People Like You should not reproduce,” is eugenics. Really. That’s what eugenics is. You’re amazed there was a major eugenics movement in the states prior to WWII? You wonder how Nazi eugenics could ever be accepted by a civilized society? You’re watching how it starts. Don’t be quiet.
And amazingly, a left wing favorite country, Iceland, is allowed to utilize it with impunity























