(05-15-2015, 12:04 PM)Maia Wrote: T'rahnu, I'm sorry you've lost sleep over the topic. It might help to keep things in perspective: that this is just a thread that holds many different subjective opinions, but isn't necessarily one of scientific fact. At the end of the day, one person's opinions aren't any more or less valuable than your own, because... opinions aren't facts, unless we want to start throwing empirically reviewed postgraduate research up in here. XD
What? But there's piles upon piles of scientific data surrounding mental illness. People have stated facts numerous times in this thread that have been gathered through scientific means. But I agree that there are a lot of opinions here, too. Opinions are not sacred, no matter what modern culture might lead us to believe. Opinions are pretty worthless, and that includes my own.
To address the rest of the thread: I had to back out of it last night so I could remain a big girl about it. Then when I was able to get to my computer the next day and saw mention of "moe culture," I about flipped my desk over. People have taken advantage of me over the years due to my illnesses, because of my timidness, passivity, and inability defend myself, so the language and demeanor used in this thread hit too close to home. Pushing the idea that someone's illness could be attractive, absolutely disgusted me because of this. But now it seems some learning has finally started happening in this thread.
Zyrusticae, I never meant to imply you didn't have mental illnesses of your own. That's the last thing I would want to do to a suffering person. Like others have said, I was absolutely baffled that while confessing mental illness of your own, you seemed to be so insensitive to them. I was trying to portray that your perceived positive light on social anxiety was actually something negative swathed in fuzzy cultural tropes. You seem to have learned now, and that's good.
