Quotes About Stigma

Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized.

We stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national educational systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make -- and the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities.

I was a dancer, and it's not really cool for a boy to dance, so it was inspiring to see a movie like 'Footloose' where a guy is dancing masculine and had a proper reason behind it. It made me feel cool, and when these kids would make fun of me, I'd be like, 'Oh, didn't you see 'Footloose ' man?'

When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.

Pitbulls are like a gun you can pet.

LékaÃ…â"¢ská diagnóza není obžaloba a nemoc není žádná hanba, ale neÅ¡tÄ›stí.

He timed his routes to avoid as many weigh scales—called "chicken coops"—as possible and he'd rather use his piss-jug than be forced to stop at highway rest areas frequented by homosexuals known as "pickle parks.

P198 Describe John Moore's brother's death: but at heart I believe now, as I believed then, that it was essentially the result of growing up in a household, and a world, where emotional expression of any kind was at best frowned on and at worst strangled. Unfortunately, I'd stated this opinion during the funeral, and was nearly forced into an asylum as a result.

The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture

Incredible shame is associated with mental illness. People will confide the most intimate details of their love life before they'll mention a relative who had a serious mental breakdown. But the brain is just another organ. It's just a machine, and a machine can go wrong.

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The very use of the term "mental illness" (rather than, say, "neurosis", "insanity", "nervous breakdown", or other euphemisms) can be seen as an effort to move certain kinds of psychological distress into the biomedical realm.

There are two kinds of people that wear bike helmets: kids and retards.

The penis, often regarded as a weapon, is also a burden, the male curse.

When you are bred to be white trash, you do what you can to avoid the family trap.

Jonge meisjes gingen er prat op pervers te zijn; als men vermoedde dat je op je zestiende nog maagd was, had dat in die tijd op elke school in Berlijn als belachelijk gegolden.

Neighbor… was that the word for "whoring tramp" nowadays?

WILLIAM THE EVER RANDY, as the shitheads here had started calling him

I'm not a bad person. I haven't killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don't kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me?

You never see a motorcycle parked outside a psychiatrist's office.

You rarely meet a wino with perfect pitch.

Anything can be tarnished by association, and if you have enough associations you can blacken the world.

But I've had such a rotten life. People like me are a problem .

Society invents a spurious convoluted logic tae absorb and change people whae's behaviour is outside its mainstream. Suppose that ah ken aw the pros and cons, know that ah'm gaunnae huv a short life, am ah sound mind, ectetera, ectetera, but still want tae use smack? They won't let ye dae it. They won't let ye dae it, because it's seen as a sign ay thir ain failure. The fact that ye jist simply choose tae reject whut they huv tae offer.