Pride And Mad Pride Ireland

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Good afternoon Mad Pride Ireland, Mad Pride, till this day there are those who claim to speak for us, yet there words perpetuating the stigma. Till this day, we live in a world where those who step forward for us, still deem us inferior to general population. Till this day, those who speak on our behalf, would rather share ignorance, and spread fear, then preach acceptance and equality and Mad Pride, till this day it is our duty to combat this ignorance, our duty to remedy such fear. “Any law that degrades human personality is unjust” Martin Luther King. Article 2 of the Mental Health Act 2001 defines me, a Mad person, and my standing in Irish society as such, “A person with a mental disorder is a person with Severe Dementia Intellectual Disability, or Mental Illness”. It is my belief that persons responsible for this legal definition were in the same mind set of persons who constructed laws making being Gay a crime, being Black a crime. These were not men of the Klan, these were merely victims of societal norms. Every day, run of the mill, well meaning, yet misguided people. People who had been instructed into a way of thinking, thinking Gays and Blacks needed the kindness and protection of special laws to protect them outside the common law. However, legal and moral are different things indeed. “Any law that degrades human personality is unjust” Mad Pride, till this day there are a slew of a medical professionals who amongst themselves will dismiss their mental health peers as quacks, unqualified to make claims to be real consultants, but Mad Pride till this day they will remain silent when implored to share such information with the general public. Mad Pride Eugenics was a taught science respected in the western world for it... ... middle of paper ... ...ous medications and outlandish procedures and the recovery of the not so normally mad? We demand numbers, we demand fact, we demand more than opinion. The day would have never came where black would be to white, where gay would be legally equal to straight without a fight, and we the Mad are prepared for just that. Mad Pride we know better than to make demands of others and none of ourselves. So we demand it of ourselves, the members of our mad family to take on the responsibility, which comes with the equality of life we so deserve. Breaking a law comes with consequences, because I nor you or any of the normally mad, for that matter has the right to hide behind the insanity law, it only hinders against our cause. We are not helpless, we are not hopeless. Today and hear after, we the mad community will be heard, and soon we will be equal. Glad to be Mad and proud!

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