Posted by Christ_empowered on September 13, 2015, at 21:25:19
In reply to where do we go?, posted by Christ_empowered on September 9, 2015, at 12:58:38
For me, I think its control issues. When I was young, my people were working class, intellectual bohemians. By the time I hit HS, they were "rinky dink middle class" and "respectable" (other peoples' words, not mine). Now they're...I dunno. I mean, they're "comfortable," but I don't know...is that upper middle class? lower rungs of upper class? I dunno. Anyway, this area is southern, very class conscious, everybody is "supposed to know his/her place" (especially me, apparently), and so...Basically, I was doomed. I was regarded as "uppity" just because I went to (the wrong) college (state school overrun w/ affluent kids and boarding school brats..I didn't know that till I got there). When I left school, the town swooped in on me. After my first (disastrous) hospitalization, all Hell broke loose...for me.
So, now, 10 years after hospitalization #1 and after years of torment--HIPPAA violations, electroshock (not voluntary, of course), being called "poor wh*t* tr*sh," etc.--I'm back with my family. I get disability, they "take good care" of me, we live in harmony and I feel safe here. And the townies...
..not happy. Men, in particular, seem to need to control me. Part social class issues, part mental patient stigma, part homophobia, part...I dunno...weirdly misogynistic (a smart queer is, I suppose, like an "uppity woman" 'round here). Sad times. At least my people can protect me :-) .
It got ugly..there's been a court case (ugh). My parents got me a good attorney, so things weren't terrible for me. Anyway, a "mental patient" from a supportive, protective, upper-middle class family w/ a good attorney and my reputation (which was ruined, in large part, by the ex-shrinks) is apparently...a "trouble maker" and "uppity."
Hooray!
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