Triggering (SI) - Ignorant people :@ grrrr...rantish

[e.taylor]

I am so fed up with people making stupid remarks about SI.
and im not really talking about the odd "i wish my grass was emo coz then it would cut itself" joke..because as annoying as they are i dont really take them to heart...

im talking about people with really strong, misinformed ideas.
like i often hear people saying stuff like "oh you know some one is seriously self harming if they cut down the arm...if they cut across then they're just attention seeking" and crap like that.
Stuff like that just reeally makes me angry, coz i feel so uncomfortable...i dont know what to say/do. You cant really explain without revealing yourself as a SIer.
It happened today and i was so tempted to just go up to the guy talking and show him my scars that are well hidden (and so "not real" because they're not all up and down my wrist) and ask him if that looks like im an attention whore!

And the whole.."why dont they just kill themselves"....

JUST SHUT UP!




why do people voice strong opinions on a subject they know nothing about?!

Idiots.

[Wonderland.]

I hate it to hun.
They say it because they think they know it all but they dont understand at all.
Try and keep away from people like that, they dont know what there talking about.
Stay safe.

Amy x

[trina1723]

Quote:

Originally Posted by e.taylor

why do people voice strong opinions on a subject they know nothing about?!

because they are stupid idiot!
i know its hard but try to ignore them , they arent worth listening to.

trina xxx

[Ghostface]

I know, it's so stupid.

[xbeckyx]

I was getting hassle of a so called mate today who kept repeating emo at me for half an hour in english *kick*
It's stupid, if you don't know much about a topic, don't pretend to understand it and rant your opinions to everyone.

[e.taylor]

yeah. people suck sometimes.

sorry your mate was so stupid lol.

x

[Bleeding Angel]

people are ignorant, simple.

at the end of they day all you can do is not let it get to you and ignore it, otherwise you are just going to wind yourself up over nothing.

[88shelz]

Self Harm scares people./
they dont understand how someon can hurt themselves.
there fore making silly jokes and comments make them feel ok about it.
if they really understood it then they wouldnt need to joke about it.

[Heidi Tiger]

Something interesting, when Luke came the other week we went for a wander round town and I wore short sleeves. We decided to count the stares I got after noticing people gawping.
...104! 104 people in just over 2 hours properly stared at me, not just little glances in most cases but openly staring. I felt like an animal in the zoo.

[Ghostface]

Some girls in my math class were talking about a couple who'd just broke up, and one of the guys said " oh god, that's just sooo sad, I think im gonna go home cut myself"

I hate when people say stuff like that.

[Embles]

Because at the end of the day
People are frightened of things they dont understand.
And when their confronted with things they dont understand they tend to put that thing into a stereotype
For example, some of the stereotypes in my area.

"Emo" = Cuts themself
"Hippy" = Is on drugs
"Chavvy" = Slag.

And so on and so on. Its pathetic really how people act about stuff like this.
Just ignore the comments. They come from little people with little minds.

[iriedanym]

People fear what they don't understand, and even though self harm has been around for centuries, it wasn't really talked about too much until the late 80's early 90's. People are still misinformed and think that SI is just people who "don't have the balls to commit suicide" (yes, that was an actual quote told to me by my ex husband). Unless you want to try explaining to every ignorant person, you just have to choose your battles and just bite your tongue the rest of the time.