Quotes About Stigma

Hedda's Hopper attitude was 'once a Commie, always a Commie.'

HIV brings out the best and the worst in humanity, and the laws reflect these attitudes.

Homelessness is not just about having a job or an apartment. Too often homelessness is due to a disordered mind.

If a boy became sick he walked alone; the others were afraid to catch what he had, and did not want to know him too well for he would surely die soon. We did not want his voice in our heads.

People who live with OCD drag a metal sea anchor around. Obsession is a break, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.

You do not understand -- no accomplishment overcomes the stigma of being different. [...] I try not to think about it and cannot eat my supper or nothing. I didn't understand it at first. But now I do. You are not different in the way difference is acceptable but in another, bigger way.

There is no such thing as a social crack user.

The attitude that depression is necessary strikes me as destructive, inhuman, and victimizing.

students tend to carry their own special psychic scars: nerd, geek, dweeb, wonk, fag, wienie, four-eyes, spazola, limp-dick, needle-dick, dickless, dick-nose, pencil-neck; getting your violin or laptop TP or entomologist's kill-jar broken over your large head by thick-necked kids on the playground—and the show pulls down solid FM ratings, though

The skulls of blacks, for instance, are denser, heavier, and smoother than the skulls of whites; that's one key reason there have been so few outstanding black Olympic swimmers: they have to work harder just to stay afloat. In

An old black ram is tupping your white ewe

depression, which can be as serious a medical affair as diabetes or cancer.

I couldn't understand these town people. If they weren't staring at a fellow, they were laughing at him.

It is a mistake to restrict oneself in one's pleasures,' Ross said. 'One should never risk being thought a Puritan.

The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the Feeble-Minded and Insane classes, coupled as it is with a steady restriction among all the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks constitutes a national and race danger which it is impossible to exaggerate. Winston Churchill in a letter to Prime Minister Asquith, advocating the forced sterilisation of disabled people

once, if you told people you were self-published, they'd look at you like you were a smelly old jobless hobo just come off a dusty boxcar with soupcan shoes and a hat made from a coyote skull.

Bipolar and paranoid. Throw in schizophrenic and you've hit the trifecta. They have padded rooms for people like you. Some of them even come with a view.

In the world, when someone looks at a person like Julia they think weak. They think lazy. They see the fat and they know exactly how she got that way. Even the most politically-correct individual knows it deep down, but bites their tongue in public. We all know what it means, to be fat, to fail.

I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.

After her three-second celebratory dance on center court at the All England Club, the American media reported, "And there was Serena … Crip-Walking all over the most lily-white place in the world…. You couldn't help but shake your head…. What Serena did was akin to cracking a tasteless, X-rated joke inside a church…. What she did was immature and classless.

Much of the difficulty which mental institutions have in their relations with the psychopath springs from a lack of awareness in the public that he exists.

My lord, what do you call a whore when she is a knight's daughter?" "Ah," the cardinal says, entering into the problem. "To her face, 'my lady.

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.

The medication, the hormones and the relentless frustrations of our lives make us bitchy and you're not allowed to be bitchy in public or people won't like you.