LaTigresse -> RE: thanks for the dance. (1/14/2012 4:42:39 AM)
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I didn't call EVERY person that posted on the thread a nasty cunt. Only the people that were being nasty cunts, in the posts that I bothered reading.......(I stopped a few pages back due to impending nausea and disgust) Two things came to mind. Something I read in the paper the other day in Dear Abby or whatever the hell it is now. A woman wrote in about her mentally challenged son, age 12, that has the physical appearance of much older, yet the mental and emotional capacity of an approx 5 yo. And, does not physically show any signs of his problem. The anguish it caused her, the way people treated her and her son, is what caused her to write...begging people to not pass judgement based upon what they saw, because it was often what they didn't see.......along that line. It's easy to feel sorry for a person with cancer, or some tragic visible illness. Yet mental illness has such a stigma that is still quite common. None of us want to admit it, but we all have that. Because it's fucking creepy and scary. In this case, I mean seriously, imagine finding out that YOU YOURSELF, was perhaps not real, but instead the creation of some mentally ill person's imagination!!! I mean how totally fucked up scary is that?!? Most of us cannot even comprend, so we doubt. Or, attack. Or both. I am the most imperfect human being I know. I AM one of the cunts I mentioned. That is what you are NOT UNDERSTANDING. Quite a few of us here are. In fact, right this second, I can only think of one forum poster that has the compassion and love for fellow man that I admire. The other thing, the second thing. I've always felt that the true measure of a man, or woman, is not in how they handle themselves in the good times, but in trying times. In times and situations that challenge us, scare us, make us angry, etc.... I think, based on this thread and topic.........quite a few of us still do not measure up. Not by a god damned long shot. I am finding all of this quite humbling and inspiring.
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