I've had this discussion before, and I will have it again. And I realize that the accusations of me being oversensitive will pour in as they did last time
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I understand exactly what you mean. I have a seizure disorder, for which I take daily medications. It blows my mind (so to speak) that, as recently as the first third of the 20th century, epileptics were still being institutionalized because they were somehow "mentally deficient" as opposed to having an organic brain disorder (and yes, I know that sometimes seizures can lead to brain damage/cognitive impairment. That still shouldn't warrant automatic institutionalization, unless there are no friends/relatives to help, and the person cannot take care of themselves
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When I'd ask him politely to stop, he'd tell me to "grow a thicker skin".
Oh, I hate that so, so much. It's just obnoxious and rude, for one. And for another, it really frustrates me when someone thinks that somehow, I should be forced to deal with something that hurts me rather than them stopping doing that thing because they're a decent human being. Which goes to prove that they're usually NOT very decent human beings whatsoever.
Unfortunately, sometimes, you don't always have the choice of disengaging with such people, especially if they're family or close friends of family.
I don't think it's "cute" or "funny" when some idiot wants to belittle what I've gone through, either with "seizure jokes" or "on the rag jokes".Agreed completely. It's not clever, cute, funny, or anything else like that. It's wrong and hurtful and shows a lot of ignorance and pantlessness. My lady bits don't work the way they're supposed to, either, leading to problems of a different sort. But I also really hate the "on the rag" jokes. I'd like to ask
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Oh, I hate that so, so much. It's just obnoxious and rude, for one. And for another, it really frustrates me when someone thinks that somehow, I should be forced to deal with something that hurts me rather than them stopping doing that thing because they're a decent human being. Which goes to prove that they're usually NOT very decent human beings whatsoever.
Unfortunately, sometimes, you don't always have the choice of disengaging with such people, especially if they're family or close friends of family.
I don't think it's "cute" or "funny" when some idiot wants to belittle what I've gone through, either with "seizure jokes" or "on the rag jokes".Agreed completely. It's not clever, cute, funny, or anything else like that. It's wrong and hurtful and shows a lot of ignorance and pantlessness. My lady bits don't work the way they're supposed to, either, leading to problems of a different sort. But I also really hate the "on the rag" jokes. I'd like to ask ( ... )
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