sickwithjustice:

genderbitch:

hamartophilia:

Crazy, insane, ect. are such hard words to reclaim too, nearly impossible in my experience. I have not once been able to figure out how to use any of them in ways where they come across to others as positive? It’s fucking frustrating and adfaasdgw maybe if I knew how to use them where people wouldn’t see it as such a terrible thing, it would click in my head to use them as slurs. I’m so sick of CRAZY BAD, DON’T EVER CALL ME CRAZY, like that fucking helps take away the stigma!

Yeah, they’re really tough to find a good zone for that in. I mean, even things like “crazy awesome” are just using the word crazy for intensity, which isn’t really positive enough to counter slur shit and also isn’t really specific to our community and enabling us to get it back.

Ugh. The whole thing is a clusterfuck and I hate it.

And these words are used all over, without a single goddamn thought. Hell, even most of my friends and my most recent ex threw around the word crazy without a thought as to how it affected me and other mentally ill people. And those are all reasonably healthy connections with people.

the only one I find interesting enough to try to reclaim is “mad.” bad because it attempts to delegitimize anger by linking it to mental illness; but as someone who thinks my anger is legitimized by what i go through trying to navigate life as an aneurotypical and mentally ill person, i find it a powerful word.

Huh. I should try that one out.