i'm fine btw, this was inspired by seeing the thing about chelsea manning. but this is an opinion i've held for quite a long time.

@xyzzy The way colleges handle those students, they may as well say “go ahead and kill yourself if you really want, just please don’t do it on our campus”

@USBloveDog @xyzzy it's rather interesting that we treat this wrongly. Suicidal thoughts should be talked about as normal, where as acting upon them should be considered abnormal instead of us just treating both as wrong. this would present a standard that normalizes people trying to cope with dark emotions and still denounces suicide, giving people more hope and welcome feelings

@USBloveDog fucking basically

@USBloveDog oh want to hear a terrible story? apparently at my school someone from the senior class killed herself and they, as usual, hushed it up. referred to her as "passing away suddenly," would not mention suicide anywhere

her class asked to, like, hold a picture of her at graduation and were told that no they couldn't

@USBloveDog so they blanketed the campus with posters with her face on them that said like "THIS IS X. SHE STRUGGLED WITH DEPRESSION AND COMMITTED SUICIDE ON X DATE. WE LOVE AND MISS HER."

by the next day the college groundskeepers had taken all the posters down. they were told to.

@shoutcacophony you're welcome, glad you appreciated it ^^

@John thanks for sharing. i hope something will come up that makes you reconsider.