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idk. i find people who are very repulsed by magical thinking to be, like. i guess i find it ignorant. i think of my ex, who actually despised schizophrenic people because their hallucinations and delusions were, to him, a sign of irrationality that rendered them inferior. he also hated anything superstitious, obviously. i doubt most people who hate astrology go so far as to extend their distaste for superstition to people who've been diagnosed with psychotic disorders, but i actually have to wonder why. i mean, it's bc most people don't think about the fact that psychiatric disorders aren't necessarily things you either have or don't—traits of them are present in the general population, and "disorders" just enter the equation when those traits impede daily functioning, basically. i'm not necessarily saying that people who believe in the so-called supernatural are just experiencing subclinical psychosis, but you can't say their beliefs aren't derived from visceral experiences, just like those of psychotic people. so why do you draw the line of disrespect at psychiatric disorder?