Real schizo here, and as much as I like to believe someone on the schizophrenia spectrum can do anything, I don’t think discarding rationality and reality are the best idea. I want to say someone with this condition could be president, but honestly unless they are in a very good state (well-medicated, good therapy, and possibly a bit of luck too) I don’t think they would be best suited for that job. Which isn’t to say there aren’t ableism and sanism issues in our country, but I don’t think that’s what’s happening here.

Ah yeah, that makes more sense. Fits the setting much better.

What kind of chaos god would they make? I wouldn’t be terribly opposed to a lord of altruism or comradery, though I don’t know too much about the Tau.

I mean, not normalizing self-harm would be cool too.

Sounds fun! Especially if we aren’t held back by having to buy cards to make a deck. UTC-5

Also good psychosis rep. Don’t see that in a lot of games.

I don’t think they read the tablet itself, though. From what I’ve read it has to be in a book. In adventure mode, though, you can totally read the slab!

Dead Space, either one or two. The story is really neat to me, so I can put up with the horror to get to the story. Also sometimes I just watch it on youtube which puts a layer between me and the game.

No, I mean that the people being described as psychotic is doing wrong. One example was s certain governor who killed her dog and then bragged about it. Some people were calling her psychotic. My point is she was doing wrong, but psychosis is A) not what’s happening and B) not wrong. Sorry for the miscommunication.

I do want to show some grace, though. Like, the language is so common and socially accepted that it can be hard to realize you’re stigmatizing people. Though I agree people who double down would be problematic.

With the added bit of not necessarily being accurate. Even if they do struggle with the condition, that doesn’t mean their idea is bad. The idea being bad is what does.

Right. I think the difference there is that a psychopath typically has a physical difference in their brain that limits their empathy ability. Now you can also say a sadist is born with the desire and they can’t really control it, so I’m not sure where the answer lies there. I typically don’t use sadist as an insult (or at all, really) but I can see the arguments.

So as I understand it, psychopathy is a disorder that incorporates low empathy and antisocial behaviors. A psychopath need not be a mass murderer and can, in fact, be indistinguishable from any other person on the street. The connotation of being a harmful, violent person is not necessarily the reality. My stance is “Any person is capable of any thing.”

Exactly! Those descriptions are definitely the sense we often go for, but they don’t carry the mocking tone we’d sometimes like to include, though it may just be inherent that something with a hurtful connotation must be harmful to someone. Otherwise it wouldn’t really be hurtful.

Yeah, it can be almost surprising to see how much ableist language can sneak into our everyday language.

Yeah. They can be hard to cut out, but I am trying. Ableism is just so ingrained in US culture it can be hard to even become aware of things you’re saying that can be ableist. But it’s definitely worth it.

This sounds like a great idea! I don’t know a lot of slurs, but I know the ones that bother me. (Most of them were in the post already) But we could invite others to share ones that bother them and we can hopefully achieve this!

I’m personally a big fan of understatement, so I like using ridiculously underwhelming insults. Like for this South Dakota governor, calling her meanie of rude when atrocious might be a more appropriate word.

Depraved I think is an especially good one! It has that venom without (as far as I know) being unintentionally hateful.

No, no. I am psychotic (diagnosed with a disorder that consists of psychotic symptoms) and I would not do this. Do not mistake “evil” for “mentally ill.”