Dont Armchair Diagnose Mass Shooters And Other Killers. The Misconception That All Violent People Must

Don’t armchair diagnose mass shooters and other killers. The misconception that all violent people must be mentally ill (and the following conclusion that all mentally ill people must be dangerous) has horrible real life consequences for visibly mentally ill people.

Schizophrenic people are 14 times more likely to be a victim of a violent crime than committing one because people assume that we’re homicidal and dangerous and may react very negatively to visibly mentally ill behavior, partly due to all the media portrayals of schizophrenics as violent killers.

50% of people killed by police are disabled or mentally ill (and the victims are disproportionately black or other people of color) because the unusual behavior of visibly disabled and visibly mentally ill people is read as inherently threathening and dangerous.

Please consider the real life consequences of reinforcing the association between mental illness and violence - people are dying because y'all want to blame all evil in the world on severe mental illness so that you can clearly separate yourself from it. You’re harming an already extremely vulnerable and marginalized group of people and it’s time to stop!

If this gets 10k notes I will tell my parents that I suspect I have autism and OCD.

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man. if glados thought chell was 100% motivated by wanting to be stubborn and contrary (instead of, like, survival)

breaking things and escaping just because she told her not to

of course, when told "don't come back," why would she expect chell to do what she's told?

if she's not even thinking of freedom/survival as a motivator, why would chell go? if she expects chell to stick to her primary motivation, causing problems on purpose, of course telling her to leave would make her say fuck you I'm staying

what a letdown, when chell finally decides to obey the one time glados doesn't want her to

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