Ah. See now people like Luwana and to an extent myself do actually *value* not only other people and their respect of us, but the other people we respect. People who, to put it bluntly, Don't Suck, are not exactly the most common commodity and so no we *don't* like it when they dip in our eyes.
With your rather... distinctive way of acting at this point, no it doesn't suprise us that you 'don't care'. It does however hugely disappoint us. Do feel free to 'not care' about that either. Apologies for ever actually giving a shit that you were sane and that we *liked you*. Because that is what has happened, we have seen you here for a while, laughed and smiled at your comments, and grown to respect and like you. Unfortunately we seem to have the fault of thinking/hoping that other people have that same capacity.
People winning lawsuits on other cases is, frankly, not our concern. We live in the UK so to start with, rules are stricter here than places like the US, and apparently most of the doctors are more paranoid when it comes to dishing out pills. Also, meds are CLEARLY known to affect people differently. If somebody wins a lawsuit for gabapentin causing a fit in some bloke in Japan, should we care? I think not. The most obvious reason being *It's Not Us*, and if these drugs (referring to mild drugs such as prozac) were as omgmindaltering as snorting coke I'm pretty sure they'd be off the shelves. Like I said, we live in the UK, where they are somewhat anally retentive about this sort of thing. Even if I didn't trust my doctor (in fact I think he EXAGERATES the risks), I do have somewhat of an amount of faith in our hugely pressured, twitchy, and paranoid governing bodies.
Do not get me wrong, if we were taking anti-psychotics every single day, oh fuck yes we'd understand your view. right now though, we don't. Weird things happen to everyone, and they are ALL on drugs. I'm not twitchy enough to demand a blood test from all of them to see what levels of naturally created mind altering drugs are in their system. To be quite frank, some of those bodily created drugs have stronger effects than for example, the stuff we're on. Feeling anger, for a very relavent example, skews how one acts and even thinks more so than our goddamn buspirone does. Every person is different, every person *reacts* differently, which is a sign that oh, people are on different doses of drugs at different times for different reasons. We don't dismiss *their* reactions (I mean, how often have you been *understanding* to a reaction, and *not* because it was 'just their brain'), so why should we be critical of somebody who's on mild medication? Personally I'd be more critical of those NOT on medication if I were you, because they're the ones not dealing with whatever is so wrong in their brain/body/life.
I am sure certain drugs *are* related. Much in the same way (to use another relavent example) mild Aspergers is related to full blown needs constant care autism. And even *that* I am reluctant to use as an example, because some of these drugs don't affect many individuals as much as Aspergers.
*clearly* we're *still* not going to undertsand somebody trying to use a kid with full blown autism as an example of why they have certain opinions of *us*.
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Date: 2006-03-31 01:03 pm (UTC)With your rather... distinctive way of acting at this point, no it doesn't suprise us that you 'don't care'. It does however hugely disappoint us. Do feel free to 'not care' about that either. Apologies for ever actually giving a shit that you were sane and that we *liked you*. Because that is what has happened, we have seen you here for a while, laughed and smiled at your comments, and grown to respect and like you. Unfortunately we seem to have the fault of thinking/hoping that other people have that same capacity.
People winning lawsuits on other cases is, frankly, not our concern. We live in the UK so to start with, rules are stricter here than places like the US, and apparently most of the doctors are more paranoid when it comes to dishing out pills. Also, meds are CLEARLY known to affect people differently. If somebody wins a lawsuit for gabapentin causing a fit in some bloke in Japan, should we care? I think not. The most obvious reason being *It's Not Us*, and if these drugs (referring to mild drugs such as prozac) were as omgmindaltering as snorting coke I'm pretty sure they'd be off the shelves. Like I said, we live in the UK, where they are somewhat anally retentive about this sort of thing. Even if I didn't trust my doctor (in fact I think he EXAGERATES the risks), I do have somewhat of an amount of faith in our hugely pressured, twitchy, and paranoid governing bodies.
Do not get me wrong, if we were taking anti-psychotics every single day, oh fuck yes we'd understand your view. right now though, we don't. Weird things happen to everyone, and they are ALL on drugs. I'm not twitchy enough to demand a blood test from all of them to see what levels of naturally created mind altering drugs are in their system. To be quite frank, some of those bodily created drugs have stronger effects than for example, the stuff we're on. Feeling anger, for a very relavent example, skews how one acts and even thinks more so than our goddamn buspirone does. Every person is different, every person *reacts* differently, which is a sign that oh, people are on different doses of drugs at different times for different reasons. We don't dismiss *their* reactions (I mean, how often have you been *understanding* to a reaction, and *not* because it was 'just their brain'), so why should we be critical of somebody who's on mild medication? Personally I'd be more critical of those NOT on medication if I were you, because they're the ones not dealing with whatever is so wrong in their brain/body/life.
I am sure certain drugs *are* related. Much in the same way (to use another relavent example) mild Aspergers is related to full blown needs constant care autism. And even *that* I am reluctant to use as an example, because some of these drugs don't affect many individuals as much as Aspergers.
*clearly* we're *still* not going to undertsand somebody trying to use a kid with full blown autism as an example of why they have certain opinions of *us*.