We shall always remember him as a shining example of what it truly means to be a useless idiot.

Equally useless is the dang crow that got me as I passed under him an hour ago. My hat is in the washer as I type this. Needless to say, I was more than a little ticked off when it happened. This is why I will never support any legislation that would outlaw BB guns. >:(

Sorry, had to laugh at that.8D

Anyhow...

Clinomorphisms tend to annoy me, as do most misconceptions surrounding mental health issues. One of the most common examples is when people casually equate the term 'schizophrenic' with having a split personality (which isn't actually the case). It hits much more of a personal nerve with me when people apply the term 'obsessive compulsive' to behaviour which qualifies, at best, as run-of-the-mill fussiness. Either that or they stereotype genuine OCD-sufferers as reclusive, detox-wielding Howard Hughes-type individuals who'll throw a major tantrum if you rearrange their soup cans out of alphabetical order. The result being that the true extent of the affliction gets trivialised and/or sensationalised. I blame such wildely-held misconceptions for it taking me so many years to even realise that what I had was a recognised and treatable disorder. :(

Also, as a vegetarian, I get ticked off by people who believe they can intimidate me simply by saying the word "meat". Oh, please...>:(

Worse yet, people who think it's cool to be schizophrenic or have OCD and offhandedly brag about having it when they don't, they just looked it up on webMD and decided they vaguely in a roundabout way exhibit the symptoms because after all they enjoy reading Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and other deeeemmmmented craaazy daaark weeeird things from Hot Topic. Oooh you like pictures to be symmetrical, hardxcore you wacky zany insane person you. I know a kid like that. He's the human equivalent of foot odor.

That happened to me once when I was like, 4 years old but I didn't have a hat on... I cried like the little girl I was!

*hugs Jabberwocky* Those people make me want to push them into heavy traffic! I cannot STAND people who treat a feigned mental illness as a pair of shoes to be shown off!! GRR!

A passing bird pooped on my MP3 player once. For reals.

And a big bakery-fresh WORD PIE to the "insane people" thing. People who flaunt how ~*~iNsAnE~*~ and ~*~rAnDoM~*~ they are give me a burning urge to stab things. Pretending to be mentally ill because you think it will make you cool and eccentric and full of personality makes you stupid. There will never be a time when this will not make you stupid. People with real disorders don't brag about having disorders, the whole point of randomness is that it's spontaneous, and isn't the whole point of being crazy that crazy people don't know they're crazy? I hate people.

Thats why God invented the .22 Short cartridge...

Lol Kageri, you're awesome. Well said.

I agree with kageri. Also people who casually flaunt being gay or bi (a lot of people claim to be bi when they really aren't, I guess because they can get away with never actually having to prove it, and they think it makes them more exotic or glamorous to say so). I can tell you, being any sexual orientation other than straight is pretty horrible. I know homosexuality is sometimes glamorised on screen, and I suppose nowadays there's a reasonable amount of public support for being homosexual - but actually BEING non-straight is a very alienating, soul-injuring experience. It isn't something "cool" to show off. There's a difference between being proud of and comfortable with what you are and being show-offy. If that makes sense. And that's probably as far as that argument should go, since we shouldn't exactly "discuss" sexuality here. But I was just saying, people who don't take sexuality seriously suck.

I hate it when people let their dogs go to the bathroom just anywhere and don't clean up. Especially when they do it in other people's yards. They try to act covertly and get away from the scene as quick as possible. It's just plain rude on so many levels.
I'm on kageri's train of people hate.

That really depends on whether what you have is a neurosis or a psychosis. Neurotic people tend to be more aware of the irrationality of their actions, but that doesn't make it any easier for them to live with it, and there's certainly no inclination to start bragging about it. When you really do have OCD, you go to utmost lengths to conceal your compulsions and/or the true motiviations behind them from other people. The last thing you want is to draw attention to yourself and be lectured about how unreasonable you're being. You're already jaded enough from trying to reason yourself out of this mindset to know that it isn't going to help you.

One thing that a lot of people don't get, when they describe something as commonplace as their desk-arranging habits as "obsessive compulsive", is that having OCD isn't a matter of exhibiting a few cute little quirks and eccentricities; it's a truly painful and arduous mental struggle against intrusive thoughts and images inside your mind.