Quotes About Stigma

There's only two types of people who are against drugs: the people who have never done drugs and the people who really sucked at doing drugs.

People with Tourettes.....What makes them tick?

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

Hats off to drug abusers everywhere.

When you look like I do its hard to get a table for one at Chucky Cheese.

We're concerned about AIDS inside our White House, make no mistake about it.

I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.

You know those guys that go to the strip club at the daytime? If you're at a strip club, and the sun is out, you got some problems!

Head gear, plus acne equals...table for one in the cafeteria.

People seem to overlook an old man losing his mind if he occasionally made light of it.

It's much more difficult to maintain personal hygiene if you're obese. Believe it or not, I've found items like remote controls and packages of cigarettes in people's fat rolls.

I've accepted the fact I have mental illness but when my imaginary friends start calling me crazy that's where I draw the line

You say 'cure.' I hear 'you're not human enough.

And people get so weird about mental illness, you follow the rules! You don't up a heart patient on a roller coaster, you don't put a mental patient on a hunting trip with you!

Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence

The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings.

We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious and are of infinite value.

People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.

When your head is held high, society pry.

Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.

To the deepest, most cellular level of my being, I resent people who believe that depression is the same as weakness, that "sad" people must be coddled like helpless toddlers.

They came with nothing, and for a complicated set of reasons, many of them still have nothing. The slurs stick to me, standing on these graves. Rednecks . Trailer-park trash. Racists. Cannon fodder. My ancestors. My people. Me.

I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.