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[alexandraerin]

Fun fact: it turns out that the bathtub that failed in so spectacular a fashion so recently was among the newer things that came with this apartment. Among the components that antedate the installation of the late lamented Bathtub, Sr. are the air conditioning unit.

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[addiejd.livejournal.com]

You should also include: being attracted to trans people, bdsm, and any sexual contact that isn't leading up to vaginal intercourse or its various homosexual counterparts.

[stormcaller3801.livejournal.com]

I should include those in what?

[addiejd.livejournal.com]

The campaign.

[stormcaller3801.livejournal.com]

As in those are considered mental illnesses and should be removed, they are already campaigning to have them removed, or something else?

Personally I don't see any of them as mental illnesses, although to be honest I would not be surprised if they were considered to be such. It seems the list of mental illnesses is in need of a rather large and broad revision. It seems to have been primarily written based on what was seen as moral and acceptable behavior decades or centuries ago, rather than what is actually a problem.

[rozencrantz.livejournal.com]

What we need a campaign for is to take the stigma off of the phrase "mental disorder".

It's a minority mental condition that causes difficulty functioning in normal life and/or distress. Many "mental disorders" are such only because there is stigma around them, and it is the stigma that is the major cause of the distress. Mental disorders aren't something that people have decided need curing, they're something that people need help living around, often because they are stigmatized.

[blue-x.livejournal.com]

Amen to that, rozencrantz