This is my brain rejecting your fail.

[meganbmoore]

Note to self: Never read Robin Hobb/Megan Lidholm again.

Short version: Taking medication for mental illness, neurological disorders, or anything that may result in a person not being "normal" mentally means that the are stifling your creativity and being untrue to your genetic self.

1.  I can pretty much guarantee that everyone reading this knows at least one person who relies on medication to be able to function in their daily life.

2.  For someone so convinced she knows what she's talking about, she is woefully uneducated. 

3.  I spent half my life listening to her arguments.  Almost caused a nervous breakdown.

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[branewurms]

CAN'T

STOP

GNASHING

TEETH

[damned_colonial]

(here via network)

Worth a post to ontd_authors?

[meganbmoore]

Unfamiliar with the community, but probably. This is likely the best response to it that I've seen: http://rachelmanija.dreamwidth.org/738070.html

[starlady]

*strikes another author off the list, permanently*

What an asshat. Mental illnesses are illnesses. Brain injuries are injuries. End of the story. Period.

[meganbmoore]

I'm kinda glad i got bored with her way back when.

[starlady]

I struggled through the first Thief book and gave up somewhere in the middle of the second, if memory serves.

[epershand]

Ok, I am just shaking with rage now. I... probably should not have read that.

[meganbmoore]

It's just so...massively uninformed and bigotted.

[wilhelminabenedict]

I was just outraged in general by the sheer offensive idiocy of her argument, and then I got to point one and I realized that I do (obviously) and now I am so incredibly angry. What a hateful, disgusting, privileged person. I don't -- I want to say something, but it probably would be constructive in the slightest.

[ellia]

Well my to read pile just got a little smaller. Thanks for the link, i can't begin to say how pissed off that kind of crap makes me.

[havocthecat]

You can see it in her writing, or, at least, I think you can. I gave up on her in the early 90's, so my memories of her books are fuzzy. I think she's also Eluki bes Shahar? *checks wikipedia* Oh, wait, no, that's Rosemary Edgehill (Eluki is her real name; Rosemary is the pseudonym). Unrelatedly, I remember liking the books published under her real name better.

Anyway, pseudonym nattering aside, I'm appalled by that post. I couldn't even finish it. I can't believe she's posting something like that. Or doing something like that. It would be nice if we could get over the stigma of meds. Mr. Havoc won't even take antihistamines regularly, that's how much stigma he ascribes to them. Ugh.