An Anti Anti-Stigma Philippic
If a tree fell in the forest and no one saw the lumberjack, would everyone blame the tree?
Let’s apply this to stigma: Our brains fail on us. No one can spot a clear cause. Ergo: Let’s blame the malfunction on the brain’s owner.
Donna lays out the issue. In response to an earlier piece, When Anti-Stigma Backfires, she comments:
If you say a person's "insanity" is caused by a brain tumor, then people act...
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