Bipolar Toddlers? Another WTF moment in America.

Ok. I love my country. I love the fact that we celebrate your right to be whoever, however, whatever, wherever, and whenever you want at any point (unless you want to be a same-sex couple, in which case, no dice). But when I received an invite in the mail for an event asking for a donation (of course) and realized that there was an actual affiliation for bipolar toddlers (I thought they were all moody?!), I just had to take pause. Ok. Really? There are Marines dying in Afghanistan, genocide in Darfur, and people in Haiti literally crawling to UN food shelters for 1 scoop of rice and we're using money to placate rich people who have nothing better to do than blame a damned normal part of childhood on a serious mental health issue that really does affect over 5.7 million adults in the world. Really oh ye who live in white suburbs of America, please stop marginalizing serious causes by advocating that your children have something wrong with them simply because you are inconvenienced for one second and have to get out of your damned politically correct, though brake-impaired Prius (there's something else to blame someone over) and call Nanny Stella on your cell phone to pick up your 3 year old from their upper-Richland Heights/Murray Hill area private daycare/arts prep school because they are pitching a temper tantrum about an organic goldfish cracker. Enough already.*

*that said, a footnote...that though tedious, is necessary. I work at a school. I understand that there are cases, as with anything, that prove the exception makes the rule. I know this. I also know that there are a bunch of rich, white people with a lot of time on their hands. Also, poor, white, other-raced, it doesn't matter excuses-know-no-boundaries people. I get it. They need to get with it too.