alexvillage

What Dani is has not to do with mental illness. She is a predator. She is manipulative. We (a broad "we") need to stop using mental illness as an explanation for all the ills in the world. I know many people who have mental illness and things are not black and white. There is already too much stigmatization and now a potential sexual abuser will be lumped together with people who, in most cases, do try to deal with their issues and rarely hurt other people? No, predators, sexual abusers are not mentally ill. They are predators and sexual abusers. It is a choice - a bad choice. It is about their character, not mental health

I am afraid they will make Robert Quinn take Callie to live with him because he wants to "know her" and things will be all cheesy and boring. I cannot stand Brandon or the actor but I think his reaction/lack of action was pretty consistent with teenage thinking. How can a 16 year-old tell his dad that he slept with dad's girlfriend? And the trauma from not being able to play was pretty realistic too. I know that most people think Callie can't get a break, but this is also realistic. Some foster kids go through a lot and sometimes much worse things.

I like how the show deals with some very serious issues like the foster system but it is maddening that they have to exaggerate and increase the drama sometimes. Maybe I am wrong and maybe it is a state by state thing but licensed foster homes cannot have bars on the windows because in many cases windows are a fire scape route. some cities and towns require a certain height for the windows. Locks on the door is a violation of rights and the "flight risk" thing is lame. She would have gone somewhere else. The social worker showing up after hours to place Callie is something that only happens on TV. No doubt there are good social workers but most of them are overworked and underpaid, they would not just work extra in a case that wasn't an emergency, and Callie wasn't being disruptive or whatever reason it would be for her to be immediately removed. Also lame is the idea that they had just found out about the license and there was no warning. I am a licensed provider, but disabled adults, and there is a process that is set up way in advance and that has nothing to do with the foster residents. I find it hard to believe that a license to foster children is only renewed if there is a child there. Callie was placed right away with the Fosters, even though at the time they were not fostering anyone. So it is not a matter of "the adoption was going to go through". The licensing process would have happened anyway.

It is not only CNN and TV talking heads. The New York Times published an article where they disclose confidential information about the Sergeant, medical information and his state of mind. Totally invasive and unnecessary, all in the name of putting fuel in a political fire. I wrote to the public editor and they suggest that I write a letter to the editor. As if they will publish. I also suggest that their journalists go back and read the Journalists Code of Ethics, because the fourth state is looking more and more like the assholes controlling the political discourse.

Maybe it is all the alien work, his superior wisdom and superpowers.

Blaming "the mentally ill" is a way of saying "not like me! I am normal!". Or a way of finding reason on unreasonable acts. And this happens overwhelmingly more when the mass murderer is white and middle class male. Because such guys can never commit acts of evil unless they are "mentally ill". I know many Autistics and some of them also have mental illness. They work, they go to college, they have families and they do have periods of their lives when they need more help. This whole conversation is making them even more afraid of disclosing the mental illness and be totally open, be activists for the community, because the retaliation is fast and ruthless. They might lose their kids, even though the kids were never in jeopardy; they do lose their jobs; they distrust doctors and avoid emergency rooms. All this because we (general we) are too afraid of admitting that evil happens and fixated on our "freedom". Besides, Congress is moved by money, not personal stories, and the NRA has tons of money. The solution becomes stripping all the rights disabled people have fought for, still fight for, and simply institutionalize everyone someone deems "dangerous". Owning a gun becomes more important than being able to walk free from place to place. And this thought is more mainstream than you think

Edited because too much rambling About Rubio: if he is the Republican choice, the only thing that would make the Democrats lose would be complete ineptitude. Rubio is a total ignorant, cannot speak, has not position on anything. I would love see him run just to see the other Republican candidates rip him apart. I do think Jeb Bush is the "best" choice. He is loved in Florida (yes, Florida is bizarre this way). Electoral collage votes

To your point, Fremde Frau If the shooter were black, it would be gang violence, If the shooter were hispanic, blame the "illegals" If the shooter were middle eastern, he would be called a terrorist White shooters are only the ones who are mentally ill, because white people, privileged middle class cannot commit acts of evil. Ever. (saw this somewhere in the web)

Are you interested in knowing how the anti-vax movement is completely ignorant, yet dangerous because at least half of Congress is equally ignorant? The anti-vaxers, as they are known, sustain that vaccines cause autism, which has been debuted several times, including a brand new study and another older one that four out that the number of autistic children that were not vaccinated was actually bigger that the ones who had been vaccinated. Then Congress has this law that needs to be reauthorized, the Combating Autism Act (as if Autistics are the enemy) and what do the subcommittee and committee do? They do not invite autistic people, the ones who have been campaigning for months to be included in the conversation about their lives, and include several anti-vaxers to speak about the horror of vaccines and the tragedy of autism That's why I get so fired up about how autism is perceived by many and exploited by the media (the NY Times has published, again, that someone posthumously diagnosed the CA shooter as autistic and Joe "Morning Joe" insists that all shooters are autistic). My many friends are already too stigmatized to keep hearing this bull crap. It has real consequences to them.

Can't stand Gervais and Tom Cruise, shouldn't this creep be forgotten?