Hmm. What bladespark said. But then I live in the UK where we smack people over the head for trying to lock people up who don't really need it. Ie: They aren't an ACTUAL PROVEN danger to themselves and/or others. I'm pretty sure people have sued companies which fired them on the basis of *actual* mental health issues, never mind something that hasn't even been 'diagnosed'.
I don't think an OH NOES THEY'RE OUT TO GET YOU view is going to help counter this experience you speak of. Maybe you don't mean it to come across that way, but that's certainly how it was reading.
Dominant culture keeps a lot fo things in the abnormal catagory. Here, goths are in the abnormal catagory. You risk being turned down for jobs, even fired from jobs, there's a derisive attitude from the majority of the public who think you're "weird" at best, batshit nuts at worst. Bearing in mind that hear multiples do not get locked up, they're pretty comparible, so I can't see the public's view of multiplicity to be a big deal :P
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I don't think an OH NOES THEY'RE OUT TO GET YOU view is going to help counter this experience you speak of. Maybe you don't mean it to come across that way, but that's certainly how it was reading.
Dominant culture keeps a lot fo things in the abnormal catagory. Here, goths are in the abnormal catagory. You risk being turned down for jobs, even fired from jobs, there's a derisive attitude from the majority of the public who think you're "weird" at best, batshit nuts at worst. Bearing in mind that hear multiples do not get locked up, they're pretty comparible, so I can't see the public's view of multiplicity to be a big deal :P