Posted by alexandra_k on March 28, 2005, at 0:05:10
In reply to Re: Just thought I'd pop a link over here... » alexandra_k, posted by TofuEmmy on March 27, 2005, at 20:33:10
The first time I gave a seminar on the topic I was pretty nervous.
People made the inevitable MPD jokes afterwards. That was hard. I was okay with giving it - but that is because the way we do seminars is to fairly much read them out. So you just read it out...
But afterwards - questions can be hard.
Comments.
Jokes.
The jokes are inevitable.
I forget how bizzare psychiatric phenomena seem to the uninitiated.
And how strong the temptation is to pick fun or to mock.
Because it is taken as a given that 'we' are the healthy ones.
And they don't know about me.But I am okay with it now.
What is interesting to me is how people start out question time full of jokes.
And by the end... Sympathy.
That is my aim anyway.But it still suprises me when I am reading that I have to stop for inintentional jokes. Let people have a laugh. Even have a bit of a smile to keep them with me.
Try to knock that out of them at question time.
And hope that they go away a bit more sympathetic.
:-)
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