A book by Martin

[starlon]

Dear Mr Stephen King,


Did you know that some of your worksstigmatize the mentally ill? I'm schizoaffective, and my paranoia isthat I'll some day find myself in a situation that looks bad on me,and simply because I'm mentally ill, then there's no chance forparole, so to speak. People want to see me locked up _because_ I'mmentally ill, and what they've seen of the mentally ill is whatthey've read and seen in movies (unless they have an innocent familymember just trying to hide his hard life) and the people want thatvermin locked up for life. The Age of Asylums was no different. Ifsomeone found out you were mentally ill, then they wanted you lockedup. Society still wants that, and you do the situation no favors.


By the way, thank you for your charityhelping the poor stay warm during the Winter. You're a good man.


Best Wishes,
Scott Sibley


P.S. It's a story about a child, abusedfrom that moment on by Fat, reaching the ripe age of Psychosis, andsent to an Asylumn simply because he was hearing Voices. They rantests and electro shocks on the boy, and kept him locked up for most of his life. Duringthat time they pulled his eye out of his skull because they thought itwas giving him bad health. He has a terrible life for the crime ofInnocent Fear. His best time of life is his time with his grandson,who would go running after the glass eye and hoping to get a look atthe socket. His name is Martin.

[GNTLGNT]

Hi Scott,

I understand your concerns...but King doesn't stigmatize those with mental illness-he, as I've said countless times before, writes a reflection of reality and those among us with closed minds and shuttered hearts are the ones with the true illness....

[blunthead]

Hi Scott,

I understand your concerns...but King doesn't stigmatize those with mental illness-he, as I've said countless times before, writes a reflection of reality and those among us with closed minds and shuttered hearts are the ones with the true illness....

Right. What sK does is expose the horror and evil for what they are. He doesn't glorify it. He says he doesn't like books and movies where the bad guy wins as if he should.

[bobledrew]

Hello Scott:

I'd be interested to know which of King's works you feel stigmatize those with a mental illness. Could you provide more details?

[J.T. Adams]

One of the things that makes SK's work so special for me, is that he's truly a good person at heart.

For me, his stories wouldn't be quite as special if he wasn't.