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Originally Posted by MotownJohnny
I can honestly see both sides of this debate. It is "all in fun" but it also stigmatizes. In this day and age, it's important to be sensitive. No one - at least no one with any morals, IMHO - would go to a Halloween event dressed as, say, in blackface, carrying a watermelon, as was done 100 years ago in Vaudeville to portray African Americans as somehow inferior to whites. It would be extremely tasteless and very hurtful. Same arguement can be made about portraying people with MI as somehow dangerous. But, we also MUST be able to laugh at ourselves at times. So, I'm kinda on the fence on this. Overall, I say err on the side of caution.
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Well mental illness can be dangeorus, not to say all people with it are dangerous people that need to be locked up...but I know there are symptoms i have that could put me and others at risk, it really sucks but I cannot deny those dangers....like with the PTSD if someone startled me I could potentially injure them before i realize what's happened luckily I am small and petite but I have jumpy reflexes to that I'll either jump like 10 feet or dive/fall on the ground or I go to hit(thus far though I haven't got someone in the face yet or anything) but yeah I could see that startle reflex being problematic in social situations. So yeah IDK I do not think such costumes are usually meant to make accurate portrayals of real psych patients so it never occurred to me as something to take seriously.