#ableism trigger

“They don’t know what’s going on around them. They need help but we don’t have any mental hospitals anymore. Doctors aren’t evil! They’re trying to help you! 

“I knew a girl and was friends with her who had schizophrenia and it made her anti-Semitic and racist. It just distorts their world view. They don’t know what’s real.”

“Gun control wouldn’t do anything. People would just find even worse ways to kill people. I mean, just look at Japan!”

I didn’t argue with her because 1: lost cause, and 2: every time I tried saying anything she’d just say  “Oh, no. No no no that’s not true.” Or go “Hmmmm. Errr. I don’t think that’s right. Maybe for some mentally ill people.” (for example. when I said that mentally ill people are more likely to harm themselves than others.)

I mentioned at the very beginning of the conversation that I was autistic but that super didn’t stop her from saying some pretty terrible things about mentally ill people right to my face.