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Maybe BPD's are emotional, erratic, but not nasty.

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Cracked, but see this is the reverse example of stereotyping. I'm 10000% against people stereotyping BPDs and people with other mental illness, and continue to annoy the members of my other support group with my "every person is different" mantra, telling people not to blame depression for every personality quirk that they don't like. At the same time, though - there ARE BPDs who are nasty, or who can become nasty if they get into the mood. And it's the same thing with the people who you called "norms" (I like that -- makes me think of Norm on Cheers!) - "norms" aren't stereotyped as "nasty", but some sure can be if they're in a bad mood!

I guess, in my ideal world, we would never be able to compose a sentence structure like:

[insert mental illness group here] are [insert adjective here].

(and I'm sorry you get stepped on.. )