“I know words like crazy and insane and even mad were used in the past with malice and to harm people. But that doesn’t happen with those words today, hasn’t happened within our life times, and again, never was with any specific group. My whole big thing though is if it doesn’t belong to anyone, its not any one group’s to claim, unlike any other slur.” But it does happen… people with mental illnesses are constantly being dismissed by use of “Oh, they’re just crazy.”

(via jazzonia)

I’ve been keeping my mouth shut about this because, well, it’s Jon Stewart, but yes. As someone who takes a handful of meds every morning and night, and who has to second-guess her every thought and impulse, and who is, by a whole lot of people’s standards, pretty damn crazy: I agree with this fucking post.

Also, I’d like to know where the idea that “crazy” and “insane” are slurs that are no longer tied to the mentally ill is coming from, because holy shit, what?

(via alliterate)

The whole no longer slurs thing was from all the initial responses to this post that I cropped, cause yeah, no way am I duplicating that on my blog so basically don’t look at the history for this post.