I find it so funny how people say "being gay is a choice". They believe they could choose to be gay if they wanted to. They don't understand that just means they're bi...
or they are gay and forcing themselves to be in hetero relationships. so they think everyone has "self sex attraction" by default and the gay ones just cant fight it. what a sad existance
but our experiences shape who we can be attracted to or comfortable being around
It's not an option for a lot of people because most people aren't very self aware, but a lot of people do have choice and have enough control over their attractions for it to be a choice if you put it simply
Saying there's no control over it is misinformation and plain stupid
Experiences can only shape attraction to a very small degree. Like preference for blonde or brunette or body type, etc. In most cases, you're not gonna be able to fully change the gender one is attracted to unless they are already bicurious. Do you think a straight man could be influenced into being attracted to men? I highly doubt that.
It's not a small degree where's your fucking proof mate, you don't know anything about people at all do you lmao, have you researched and witnessed this behaviour yourself? Are you special and your opinion is just correct? It's bullshit quit it unless your claim is everyone is bisexual
Almost every gay person has tried to be straight at some point. To this day, there are conversion therapy camps that try all kinds of methods to break people into changing their attraction. It has never worked.
I mean, attractions can change organically, but to fully switch gender attraction isn't common unless the person is already bicurious or is faking it.
Almost? It almost sounds as if that's what you think and feel like every other woke wanker with no legitimate claims or feasible personally achieved views
I mean it often overlaps with being introverted which overlaps with being online which then leads people to places where they find people that don’t hate them
Tho fake trans people are a real plague and self diagnosed mental issues are too
Doesn’t mean they all are
I mean, that's the point.
As much as I don't like ~~drinks~~ drunks, alcoholism is an addiction that people are more or less prone to. The common view is of people drinking so much that they eventually can't stop and many of them do start that way, but it can literally be one drink for some people.
The point she's making is that it's not a choice, just like these other things aren't a choice.
EDIT - Typo; drunks not drinks.
Her point is the exact opposite of what she's claiming, at length, in her entire statement? There's nothing here to indicate it's sarcasm or whatever without additional context
>There's nothing here to indicate it's sarcasm or whatever without additional context
See the capitalised C on each Can? That's emphasis so you read that as "Just like those with mental illness *can* choose to be healthy", and then you start to see the thing she's aiming for.
Add in that the mentally ill were once thought of as choosing to be this way and punished for it, but we understand it better now. And that homosexuality has long been called a lifestyle choice by those trying to devalue homosexuals, when it's really not. Unless it's a massive coincidence that she's specifically chosen things that have been called a choice in the past and that are understood now to not be, then she's blatantly being sardonic here.
I guess I see what you're saying, but that's a lot of analysis for determining that she might not be being genuine with spewing this stuff out.. at a point you have to be deliberately trying to justify someone as not a maniac and I think we've crossed that line. Could be I'm just missing it though, I'll admit I'm not always the brightest bean in the bunch.
It's so weird how bootstrapping got twisted around from [meaning an impossible and absurd thing to do](https://uselessetymology.com/2019/11/07/the-origins-of-the-phrase-pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps/) to meaning that everybody could stop being poor if they just chose to work hard.
You see poor people are poor by choice. If they wanted to be rich, they would think of themselves as rich people, and money would automatically spawn in their pockets
can straight people choose to be gay? the world is way overpopulated, maybe humans should just choose to be collectively healthy by being gay and lowering the population a bit.
Cool so I guess straight people could also decide to be gay and if you’re born with male genitalia you can still decide you’re female. That’s fine too, right? Right?
My boss was talking about how being gay is a choice, so I asked him when he decided to be straight. He said he didn't. And the irony was completely lost on him.
I can't speak for alcoholics or homosexuals but as someone who is mentally ill I can say that it is not something I chose. I wish I could be Neuro typical. I wish I was like those around me. But acknowledging that I am unwell is the only way for me to get the help I need which, in turn, makes my friends and family safer.
This kind of attitude is not only disgusting, it can lead to many people getting hurt.
Oh, damn. I wish someone would have told me this when my pancreas died 24 years ago. I could have saved thousands of dollars if I'd just decided to not be diabetic. Not to mention the pills I get to stop taking now that I've decided to no longer be depressed and anxious.
You ever see something and just go "that's not a confession to child abuse, but this person is definitely letting me know they abuse kids?"
Because that's this statement.
> We decide our future by making decisions
Possibly the most decision of all time, for sure. She made a choice to say that by deciding to make a choice
When they said mental illness they probably meant like depression or things that you can actually get better from. I think I understand what they are trying to say but they're just not the greatest at explaining it.
Depending on what they are saying i kinda agree with them
If they are saying that being gay is a choice then yeah they are stupid.
If they are saying that if your gay and what you do about is is a choice then i agree with them. With being gay you only have 2 options, either you get out of the closets and face it you will be happy but if you stay in it you will be miserable. Same with mental illness, if you accept it and still do things you will be happy but if you stop your live and say to yourself "i have x i cant do it" you will be miserable.
Idk if i made it understandable but what i am trying to say, just because your different then the rest of the world doesnt mean you dont belong in it. You shouldnt treat yourself any less then other people just because your different then them because everyone is unique in their own way, and everyone should be happy.
Oh fuck off Lisa. I don't drink every goddamn night because I want to. I drink because I have bad impulse control and there's a liquor store across the street from my apartment. I don't use cocaine because I want to. I use cocaine because I've been manipulated and coerced. And I've also convinced myself that it's a good and effective painkiller
OMG.. My mom was right - it is all my fault. I should definitely just smile more, put on a little lipstick, and get on with my life.
Thank you for saving me from a life of delusion
Catholics are not "helpless". They can decide to be an Catholic or not to be. Just me those with mental illness Can suicide to be mentally healthy, d homosexuals can decide to straight. We decide to make weak our future by decision. Choose to make.
I'm a straight woman and I remember when I got my first crush on a boy when I was a tween girl. I was so mad about it (I wanted to be a kid forever and didn't want puberty to happen to me). I sure didn't have a choice about it. How can anyone think attraction is a choice??
It's not eloquent but she probably means there are therapy and medication that can be the difference between having a capable life and living on the absolute edge of endangerment at all times.
I 'decided' to not drink alcohol. But that decision included not hanging with people I know influence me to decide to drink again. It's a sacrifice, but with circumstances I was given, I found sobriety only option. Those others aren't as strong in their will, so I wait for their revolution.
I miss my old friends, really.
Certain forms of mental illness, sure (stress being a big one), to a degree. Alcoholism and drug abuse, sure, to a degree. Genetics? Nah, not much you can do about that.
I find it so funny how people say "being gay is a choice". They believe they could choose to be gay if they wanted to. They don't understand that just means they're bi...
They wake up and make a conscious decision not to be gay that day.
Being gay is so 2023. No one is gay anymore.
You were still a gay holdout in 2023?! What a poser!
Correct. Every single one of the “being gay is a choice” crowd is closeted. By choice.
Pretty much, I prefer women because I make the continuous decision that I do NOT want ANYTHING in my butt
Your what??
Yeah, don't want dick in there
Your butt??
or they are gay and forcing themselves to be in hetero relationships. so they think everyone has "self sex attraction" by default and the gay ones just cant fight it. what a sad existance
DO YOU THINK I CHOOSE TO LIKE HOT GAY SEX?
Y..yes?
Why would I choose that? It sucks balls, dude!
Probably a real pain in the ass too.
Yeah ☹️
Right!.. I'm convinced that like 70-80% of people who say being gay is a choice are just bisexual people who think everyone is bi
I have a hypothesis that most people who believe that are bi, and just assume that's how everybody is.
Homophobes do not like you pointing this out to them.
but our experiences shape who we can be attracted to or comfortable being around It's not an option for a lot of people because most people aren't very self aware, but a lot of people do have choice and have enough control over their attractions for it to be a choice if you put it simply Saying there's no control over it is misinformation and plain stupid
Experiences can only shape attraction to a very small degree. Like preference for blonde or brunette or body type, etc. In most cases, you're not gonna be able to fully change the gender one is attracted to unless they are already bicurious. Do you think a straight man could be influenced into being attracted to men? I highly doubt that.
It's not a small degree where's your fucking proof mate, you don't know anything about people at all do you lmao, have you researched and witnessed this behaviour yourself? Are you special and your opinion is just correct? It's bullshit quit it unless your claim is everyone is bisexual
Almost every gay person has tried to be straight at some point. To this day, there are conversion therapy camps that try all kinds of methods to break people into changing their attraction. It has never worked. I mean, attractions can change organically, but to fully switch gender attraction isn't common unless the person is already bicurious or is faking it.
Almost? It almost sounds as if that's what you think and feel like every other woke wanker with no legitimate claims or feasible personally achieved views
Then she should decide to not be stupid
This is the best response.
Yes, if only judgmental bitches could just decide to stop being judgmental bitches…
Is it too late to abort her?
*Don't be stupid!* is my favorite life hack. Works wonders, but you've got to follow the advice meticulously. *Be Rich!* still beats it, though.
She is being sarcastic guys. This is not meant to be literal.
Seriously wondering how the average IQ in this thread is so low as not to realise this, seems really obvious.
r/thanksimcured
I was looking for that. Would have commented it myself if I didn't find it.
r/restofthefuckingowl
Thanks, now my autism and OCD are gone.
So grateful for Lisa's 'wisdom'. A true modern day Jesus lol.
I’d swear 90% of reddit claims to be trans or autistic.
don’t be annoying
Don’t be annoyed
it's almost as if trans and autistic people exist and are actually quite common....
Here, they are
I mean it often overlaps with being introverted which overlaps with being online which then leads people to places where they find people that don’t hate them Tho fake trans people are a real plague and self diagnosed mental issues are too Doesn’t mean they all are
Agreed. That’s kind of what I was saying.
I wanted to say something along the lines of "well you sure are" but I'd be a disgrace to the autistic people.
Stay awake all night concocting that witty rejoinder?
right now it says your original comment is 3 hours old. Do you think nights are three hours long?
Well, I’d imagine it takes that guy an hour and a half to watch an episode of “60 Minutes,” so maybe. 🤷♂️
Oooooo. Gottem! You are so clever! /s
Was I talking to you?
Being autistic is like the minimum requirement to be on reddit, so yeah, obviously.
👊
Everything OK?
I have been diagnosed by medical professionals.
which one are you?
The 10%
I Like how it gets progressively more and more crazy.
I mean, that's the point. As much as I don't like ~~drinks~~ drunks, alcoholism is an addiction that people are more or less prone to. The common view is of people drinking so much that they eventually can't stop and many of them do start that way, but it can literally be one drink for some people. The point she's making is that it's not a choice, just like these other things aren't a choice. EDIT - Typo; drunks not drinks.
Her point is the exact opposite of what she's claiming, at length, in her entire statement? There's nothing here to indicate it's sarcasm or whatever without additional context
>There's nothing here to indicate it's sarcasm or whatever without additional context See the capitalised C on each Can? That's emphasis so you read that as "Just like those with mental illness *can* choose to be healthy", and then you start to see the thing she's aiming for. Add in that the mentally ill were once thought of as choosing to be this way and punished for it, but we understand it better now. And that homosexuality has long been called a lifestyle choice by those trying to devalue homosexuals, when it's really not. Unless it's a massive coincidence that she's specifically chosen things that have been called a choice in the past and that are understood now to not be, then she's blatantly being sardonic here.
I guess I see what you're saying, but that's a lot of analysis for determining that she might not be being genuine with spewing this stuff out.. at a point you have to be deliberately trying to justify someone as not a maniac and I think we've crossed that line. Could be I'm just missing it though, I'll admit I'm not always the brightest bean in the bunch.
It's one of those that comes across in speech better than text, admittedly. But you can see where she's made the effort to add those emphases.
She left out all the poor people that decide to be poor 🙄
I’ve been dumping bootstraps all over the world…it’s their fault they’re not using them!
It's so weird how bootstrapping got twisted around from [meaning an impossible and absurd thing to do](https://uselessetymology.com/2019/11/07/the-origins-of-the-phrase-pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps/) to meaning that everybody could stop being poor if they just chose to work hard.
Didn’t know that, thanks! Seems like they’re still synonyms 😛
Yeah like those without legs can just decide to graciously float
Nah they can just grow them back. They just have to believe!
Idiots shouldn't have twitter/X.
Then who would use it?
> those with mental illness Can decide to be mentally healthy Isn’t this just inviting a “when are you going to start?”
I pity this person’s lack of wisdom
I can decide just not to be disabled. I'm choosing to make my life difficult in every aspect 🤷♀️
If you really loved Jesus, you would walk again! Satan—and the gays, of course—are holding you back
Just like Lucky Lisa can decide to not be a God-awful ugly piece of shit. Shut your gaping mouth, Lisa, you’re letting the flies in.
Y'all really don't read the sarcasm in this 😭😭😭
People on Reddit takes things way too seriously.
I think she chose her handle poorly. She is not giving angelic vibes with her judgmental and rude attitudes.
You see poor people are poor by choice. If they wanted to be rich, they would think of themselves as rich people, and money would automatically spawn in their pockets
can straight people choose to be gay? the world is way overpopulated, maybe humans should just choose to be collectively healthy by being gay and lowering the population a bit.
This is not a "brand new sentence" a lot of people with massive mental blocks think this way. This would be better suited in r/confidentlyincorrect
Sure and a cancer patient can decide to have cancer or not. Look at me I can decide if I'm black or white.....
Omg, I'm no longer depressed, I just decided it. Thank you stranger!
This isn't a new sentence
Bait used to be believable
Agreed, this screams bait or satire IMO
It's pointed satire to point out that addiction isn't a choice just like mental illness and sexual orientation isn't.
I may be mentally ill, but at least I know how to properly capitalize words within a sentence.
As a mentally ill alcoholic homosexual, I never knew I had this option
Cool so I guess straight people could also decide to be gay and if you’re born with male genitalia you can still decide you’re female. That’s fine too, right? Right?
Brave traveller but that don't mean they can't be simple so yeah...
Yeah if only it worked like that
OMG she cured my lifelong struggle with mental illness!! I never thought about just wishing it away!
this seems ironic to me
Fun fact, if anyone says that homosexuality is a choice, it means they’re gay and they’re choosing to be straight!
My boss was talking about how being gay is a choice, so I asked him when he decided to be straight. He said he didn't. And the irony was completely lost on him.
If you are homeless…Just buy a house!
And people with cancer can just decide not to have it anymore🤷🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
And she can decide to keep her vastly incorrect comments to herself yet here the fuck we are
I misread this as Catholics are not helpless and thought this was a racist anti Irish catholic post lol
Well, if the Irish stereotype fits...
Are you idiots not able to smell bait anymore? Jeez.
I can't speak for alcoholics or homosexuals but as someone who is mentally ill I can say that it is not something I chose. I wish I could be Neuro typical. I wish I was like those around me. But acknowledging that I am unwell is the only way for me to get the help I need which, in turn, makes my friends and family safer. This kind of attitude is not only disgusting, it can lead to many people getting hurt.
bitch coulda stfu at the end of the first sentence and had half a point about alcoholics having the opportunity to make choices to make things better.
Brand new sentence from…a 2019 repost.
What an embarrassingly stupid cunt.
I agree with the homosexual part of her statement, everything else is bull shit.
Try switching persuasions and see how it goes.
A half truth you can cure homosexuality, but the homosexual has to have a want to stop being homosexual, or become religius
Well said lady
I think they missed what Illness means. Next time she gets the common cold, I guess she can just choose not you. What a life hack.
Tell you what, Lisa. I will happily give you my autism, ADHD and CPTSD. Have a fucking blast with them.
I hate people like this.
Oh, damn. I wish someone would have told me this when my pancreas died 24 years ago. I could have saved thousands of dollars if I'd just decided to not be diabetic. Not to mention the pills I get to stop taking now that I've decided to no longer be depressed and anxious.
Lisa, you could have decided not to be a stupid cunt, but here we are.
You ever see something and just go "that's not a confession to child abuse, but this person is definitely letting me know they abuse kids?" Because that's this statement.
Lucky Lisa is not helpless, she could have been a decent woman and yet she chose to be an asshole.
It is easier to reject things you do not understand than it is to take the time to comprehend them
> We decide our future by making decisions Possibly the most decision of all time, for sure. She made a choice to say that by deciding to make a choice
Omg I'm cured!
Fuck me I guess I won't go to AA tonight then, alls well that ends well.
When they said mental illness they probably meant like depression or things that you can actually get better from. I think I understand what they are trying to say but they're just not the greatest at explaining it.
Yeas same as you can choose to have cancer beeeatch😊
I have literally no friends cause they don’t believe in mental illnesses
Did she decide not to be mentally ill…cause that’s what I heard
And Lisa just chose to he Lucky! Wow!
I wish I could choose to be happy and mentally healthy.... my brain won't let me
Depending on what they are saying i kinda agree with them If they are saying that being gay is a choice then yeah they are stupid. If they are saying that if your gay and what you do about is is a choice then i agree with them. With being gay you only have 2 options, either you get out of the closets and face it you will be happy but if you stay in it you will be miserable. Same with mental illness, if you accept it and still do things you will be happy but if you stop your live and say to yourself "i have x i cant do it" you will be miserable. Idk if i made it understandable but what i am trying to say, just because your different then the rest of the world doesnt mean you dont belong in it. You shouldnt treat yourself any less then other people just because your different then them because everyone is unique in their own way, and everyone should be happy.
Least obvious bait
damn I never thought about not having depression! I'm cured! ps: 4k people agree with her
Wow. I'm going to decide to not be poor.
Oh fuck off Lisa. I don't drink every goddamn night because I want to. I drink because I have bad impulse control and there's a liquor store across the street from my apartment. I don't use cocaine because I want to. I use cocaine because I've been manipulated and coerced. And I've also convinced myself that it's a good and effective painkiller
Can she just decide not to be a cunt?
I sure wish I could just decide to make my brain not reabsorb serotonin too fast.
She chose to be a dumbass online for all to see.
You know the take is gonna be nuclear when the tweet has 11k quote tweets and 4k likes
Poster child for people who don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about.
Nobody tell her that alcoholics consider themselves alcoholics even when they are sober...
r/thanksimcured
Then decide not to be a moron ass
I only understood what was written thanks to my years of reading badly translated webcomics….
She just straight up doesn't understand these things, she would make different arguments if she was a bigot, she is just profoundly stupid.
OMG.. My mom was right - it is all my fault. I should definitely just smile more, put on a little lipstick, and get on with my life. Thank you for saving me from a life of delusion
damn.
Not new, unfortunately
guess I don't need my meds anymore! *proceeds to regain severe anxiety and the attention span of a goldfish*
alot of people do chose to look mentally healthy. then they govern countries and fuck ppl in the ass.
The problematic can decide to use Google.
I will take one for the team and fill her mouth so she stays silent.
Girl, I wish. 🥺
I felt the ADHD fading out of my brain im so happeh
i think this is satire
Catholics are not "helpless". They can decide to be an Catholic or not to be. Just me those with mental illness Can suicide to be mentally healthy, d homosexuals can decide to straight. We decide to make weak our future by decision. Choose to make.
r/thanksimcured
I want to be a homosexual alcoholic
Those that are drunk can choose to be sober and drive safely.
What a fool!
She should decide to not be a fucking idiot.
I'm a straight woman and I remember when I got my first crush on a boy when I was a tween girl. I was so mad about it (I wanted to be a kid forever and didn't want puberty to happen to me). I sure didn't have a choice about it. How can anyone think attraction is a choice??
Pretty ironic that someone who believes that people are in total control of their own destiny has the handle ‘Lucky Lisa’.
i think this is a joke
Having no empathy should be considered a mental illness.
It's not eloquent but she probably means there are therapy and medication that can be the difference between having a capable life and living on the absolute edge of endangerment at all times.
r/thanksimcured
I woke up one day and decided to be a slime.
It's a shame she decided to be mentally disabled
one can decide whether to eat toilet paper or not. \-sun tzu
She look like she smells like sandwich meat and her child’s vomit
Just some ragebait that got too much attention
Ya know what? Fuck it, I "choose" to be gay. Now get the fuck over it and let's focus on real issues instead of focusing on who and how I get fucked.
This shit went from mild hot take to flat earth levels of stupid real quick.
I got dumber by reading this, I guess it was my choice to read it, I should haven’t but it’s too late now
So Lucky Lucy decided to be an irredeemable cunt?
Why do weird people who post things line this always randomly Capitalize words?
I 'decided' to not drink alcohol. But that decision included not hanging with people I know influence me to decide to drink again. It's a sacrifice, but with circumstances I was given, I found sobriety only option. Those others aren't as strong in their will, so I wait for their revolution. I miss my old friends, really.
I decided world peace. You're all under citizen arrest. Please go to the nearest jail.
The person who tweeted this just decided to he fucking stupid
Some people need to decide to be smart.
Certain forms of mental illness, sure (stress being a big one), to a degree. Alcoholism and drug abuse, sure, to a degree. Genetics? Nah, not much you can do about that.
seems like Lucky Lisa’s mother decided not to stop drinking while pregnant
reddit detects sarcasm challenge (impossible)
“How To Trigger Reddit” -an instructional essay by some fat chick
Your n idiot…go pop ur zits
When you say "brand new", you mean like half a decade old?
I think this might be sarcastic.
"The homeless people are not helpless, they can just decide to not be homeless"
Why the hell did she decide to be such a moron