Quotes About Stigma

Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of adults, the confession that they bear the stigma of childhood, of being small and having a child's need for sleep.

If the sailor in his sling were to turn and look down on her, he'd know she was a whore by the tentacles.

If you tell someone you're divorced they don't even blink, but tell them you've never been married and they wonder what's wrong with you.

The unhappy truth is that male homosexuality will never be fully accepted by the heterosexual majority, who are obeying the dictates not of bigoted society or religion but of procreative nature.

It kind of irritates me that I'm seen as this pretty face. People also say I'm too thin. The truth is pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.

If truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom.

People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!

People with disabilities are sometimes very humble and approachable, if you want a seasoned reputation, then behave like one of the handicaps.

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artifact of your mental illness.

No one wanted to deal with damaged. It made them uncomfortable.

victimnoun ?vik-t?m 1. The moment you tell everyone you have a mental disorder, in order to excuse your behavior.

What's even more messed up than funerals, is the way people treat you after the funeral. Like you're diseased or something.

Entertainment has a bad name...The word wears spandex, pasties, a leisure suit studded with blinking lights.

It was terribly important that such women should marry. The failure to marry--spinsterhood--implied a kind of dreadful crippling, for it was universally acknowledged that a woman's true position was that of administratrix, mainspring, guiding star of the home, and if she was unable to perform this function, she became a sort of pitiful social misfit, an oddity.

Amply described blowjobs and anal scenes may stigmatise gay writers.

Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.

Why is it that people channel so many of their hang-ups about people who are poor or unsuccessful into the food-stamps program?" asks Concannon as we settle into our chairs, then answers his own question.

There was a vividly clear class distinction between tech guys and finance guys. The finance guys saw the tech guys as faceless help and were unable to think of them as anything else.

People who had post-traumatic stress disorder were considered weaklings," as one Israeli psychologist put it. Part of the job of being an Israeli Jew was to at least pretend to forget the unforgettable.

Alcoholism is a disease," she said. "Like athlete's foot. Or herpes. It's nothing to be ashamed of. Luker and I have lots of friends who are alcoholics. And speed freaks too." "Well

People who smoked cannabis were Other, and the cannabis they smoked threatened to let their Otherness loose in the land.

allowing him to conduct clinical research on LSD in the United States—this even though he had a third-grade education

Psychedelic drugs cause panic and temporary insanity in people who have not taken them.

Keep reiterating, again and again, that depression is not something you 'admit to.' It is not something you have to blush about; it is a human experience. It is not you. It is simply something that happens to you.