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Just Rosie saying hi! Have a great day/night!

A lot of people around me are having kids and every day it becomes more apparent that hitting your children to punish them is insane because literally everything can be a horrible punishment in their eyes if you frame it as such.

Like, one family makes their toddler sit on the stairs for three minutes when he hits his brother or whatever. The stairs are well lit and he can see his family the whole time, he’s just not allowed to get up and leave the stairs or the timer starts over. He fucking hates it just because it’s framed as a punishment.

Another family use a baseball cap. It’s just a plain blue cap with nothing on it. When their toddler needs discipline he gets a timeout on a chair and has to put the cap on. When they’re out and about he just has to wear the cap but it gets the same reaction. Nobody around them can tell he’s being punished because it’s in no way an embarrassing cap, but HE knows and just the threat of having to wear it is enough.

And there isn’t the same contempt afterwards I’ve seen with kids whose parents hit them. One time the kid swung a stick at my dog, his mother immediately made him sit on the stairs, he screamed but stayed put, then he came over to my dog and gently said “Sorry Ellie” and went back to playing like nothing happened, but this time without swinging sticks at the nearby animals.

I had a dream that Pepsi released a candy called “Pepsi Particles” that were caviar sized, spherical pepsi logos that fizzed in your mouth. The packaging was a blue and silver pouch with a pepsi logo surrounded with rings like an atom, there were crystal pepsi and pepsi blue flavors as well. I can’t stop thinking about them.

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here are some cool facts for you

it has been proven time and again in study after study that there is no correlation between mental illness and violent behavior, except in that mentally ill people are more likely to have substance abuse problems and there is a correlation between substance abuse and violence. mental illness itself is not a risk factor for violent behavior

yes that includes mental illnesses with psychotic features

“In this study, the prevalence of violence among those with a major mental disorder who did not abuse substances was indistinguishable from their non-substance abusing neighbourhood controls. A concurrent substance abuse disorder doubled the risk of violence. Those with schizophrenia had the lowest occurrence of violence over the course of the year (14.8%), compared to those with a bipolar disorder (22.0%) or major depression (28.5%). Delusions were not associated with violence, even ‘threatcontrol override’ delusions that cause an individual to think that someone is out to harm them or that someone can control their thoughts.” (x)

you hear that, motherfuckers

mentally ill people - and yeah, even (especially!) those who are sick in what you think of as The Crazy Way - are not more dangerous than people without mental illnesses. it’s not ambiguous. it’s not a matter of debate

how then do you justify using slurs that paint mentally ill people as dangerous

how do you justify it when mentally ill people are two and half to four times more likely to be the victims of violent crime than average

how do you justify it when mentally ill people are at an elevated risk for domestic violence and abuse

how do you justify it when mentally ill people are almost universally the subjects of ridicule or fearmongering in popular media

how do you justify it when mentally ill people are massively more likely to be unemployed and/or homeless than people without mental illnesses

how do you justify it when mentally ill people are coerced and abused by the professionals who are supposed to help them

how do you justify it when mentally ill people are afraid to seek help at all because of social stigma

how do you justify it when these aren’t just suspicions but observable facts

how the FUCK do you justify it

Hi! This is my dog, Rosie. We had a pair of fake glasses for some reason, so I thought I would take a picture of her with them on while she napped. I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day/night!

A random pretty irrelevant thing:

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