Quotes About Stigma

In 1936, shortly after the first lobotomies were performed in Lisbon, the procedure came to our side of the sea, where it was adapted with all-American vigor, so much so that by the late 1950s, more than twenty thousand patients had had lobotomies and the surgery was being used to "cure" everything from mental retardation to homosexuality to criminal insanity.

People decide what you're like before they even get to know you.

My kids are around pit bulls every day. In the '70s they blamed Dobermans, in the '80s they blamed German Shepherds, in the '90s they blamed the Rottweiler. Now they blame the Pit Bull.

I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.

The US "Down Low" is thronging with young Black males who live double lives in the homosexual urban underground. These "Black" and "queer" young males, who have sex with men and live straight lives, reject "gays" as "faggots who dress, talk and act like girls", thereby ascribing a White effeminacy to gayness and embracing a Black hypermasculinity.

Prison and the asylums had made me worse, not better. I had truly become a hostage of my past, condemned by my reputation and my fucked-up mind.

People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are

I'm not an alcoholic. Alcoholics go to meetings. I'm a drunk. We go to parties.

The Virgin Mary was an unwed teenage mother.

To the uninformed observer, the agonizing cramps in a marathon runner's calf muscles are heroic while the relentless explosions of a dominatrix's paddle against her client's bottoms are obscene and perverted. That the two victims might confront their ordeals for similar reasons, and take away similar benefits, has rarely been considered. Grant Antrews, Submissions

In principle new points of view are not as a rule discovered in territory that is already known, but in out-of-the-way places that may even be avoided because of their bad name. C.G. Jung, Synchronicity[26]

I have to hear this all the time in England: "Well, all Americans are fat and stupid, mm-hm-hm-hm-hm." Really? Well, thanks for sending over the best and brightest to start the party. Maybe we can send a few freaky, Texas, militia, hate-group, gun-toting weirdoes back to your country.

As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

En nuestra clase social pareciera que solo al llegar a ancianos dejamos de ser «niños» o «niñas». Es común escuchar «deberías andar con ese niño» o «esa niña es increíble» al hablar de hombres y mujeres que rebasan los cuarenta años. La absoluta infantilización del lenguaje que engendra adolescentes cuarentones.

And all the little people Will stare at me and say, "That is the Crazy Woman Who would not sing in May."

I hope this helps someone realize that the stigma that used to go with giving a child up for adoption is more of the parent or parents worrying about what will ( fill in the blank) think. You were born to a loving mother that loved you enough to want you to have a safer life than what she felt she could provide you. I will always thank her for you! And it is like that saying goes, people that don't matter judge and people that matter don't judge!

It was strange how closely we returnees clung together. We were like a family of orphaned children, split by an epidemic and sent to different care centers. That feeling of an epidemic disease persisted. The people treated us nicely, and cared for us tenderly, and then hurried to wash their hands after touching us. We were somehow unclean. We were tainted. And we ourselves accepted this. We felt it too ourselves. We understood why the civilian people preferred not to look at our injuries.

their jaws grow large, and their lips grow coarse, like the poor Paddies who eat potatoes.

Once a label (professor, housewife, chair, butterfly, automobile, laxative) has been applied, people are less likely to notice the actual qualities or attributes of what is being labeled.

What might be considered irrational, abnormal, aberrant, ludicrous, illogical, bizarre, schizoid, or schizophrenic to earth people (which is what AAs call nonalcoholics) is usually considered fairly normal by AA members.

Nova Scotia in 1755 fell into decline and became associated with ignorance and failure and poverty. The fisher-people of southern Louisiana became ashamed of who they were.

What I think a psychic is, unfortunately, I think in this day and age, it's taken on sort of a rancid sound.

Unfortunately, I think depression and anxiety are really hard to live with. And what people don't need is to feel bad about themselves because they decide to go on medication.

I'm not trying to represent all Muslim women. I'm trying to give voice to the silent majority. Unfortunately, I'm a bit loony.