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I guess the thought police had to step in and make sure every thing was PC and sympathy. sad world we live in, it really is. someone can act like a lunatic and i am supposed to be nice to them. *gag*

Yes, you really are supposed to be nice to them. Yes, really. Yes, even if they "act like a lunatic". Yes, even if you think they have an actual disorder like OCD. No, I'm not kidding. No, I'm really not. Nope. You're supposed to be people. Period.

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Y'know, I have met people with OCD.
It is mental, not physical, but it impacts their lives as much.
Maybe the government should be spending serious amounts on therapy and stuff that will help, but they seem to be putting bombs at the top of the shopping list.
I do work with the public, and can sympathise with anyone who has to take care of someone who is ESN, or whatever, and I get a lot of that myself.
My life would be easier if everyone wore a t shirt that said 'autistic', OCD, or whatever, but i feel that that would be demeaning. I work on a Tube station - what the yanks call a subway, and I frequently have to escort a blind person on or of a train.
These people use a white stick, but you would be suprised the number of ignorant assholes who cannot be bothered to notice me and the person next to me, waving a white stick in front of them, coming towards them, and just collide - they don't even take any notice of a call to 'move aside please', oh no. the fact that a blind person is coming thier way in no way obliges them to look up andstop yakking into the mobile clamped to their ear, we have to dodge them.
Actually, I don't. As an ex-rugger player, I can 'fend off' with either hand, and an asswipe that can't be bothered to look where they are going in the vicinity of the less able is going to be fended in no uncertain terms.
I don't think that the blind, the epileptic or the mentally ill choose to be that way. I guess that we who are privileged to have good health, mentally and otherwise, ought to cut them some slack in our dealings...