[Miss Absynthe]

Originally Posted by Despanan

Trying to keep guns out of the hands of paranoid schizophrenics isn't ableism, because it's rational to do this, as their reasoning faculties are severely impaired. Trying to keep guns out of the hands of those suffering from minor depression or ADHD on the other hand IS ableism.

This is a misunderstanding of how schizophrenia works for most people.

Also, it's interesting that when talking about people with paranoid schizophrenia they are labelled as "paranoid schizophrenics" (making that their primary descriptor, instead of "people with..."), but talking about people with depression or ADHD they are "those suffering from minor depression or ADHD".