My mom said I may be a "little OCD". That's a mental illness!
She's 76 years old so I didn't want to argue with her. But it offends me to think that I am seen to have mental illness.
She also used the phrase "work wife" when talking about a lady my father worked with. I got rather upset about it and asked her not to use that phrase anymore.
Words mean things, and when we water down the meaning in an attempt to be cute or clever it reduces the impact of the words.
Mental illness is nothing to laugh at, though a lot of comedy focuses on it. Sheldon from "Big Bang Theory" comes to mind, as well as movies like "Liar, Liar" and others.
I wish our pop culture didn't bastardize the English language so much. But with all of the single mothers, test tube babies, and divorces even saying that doesn't mean what it used to mean. In fact it might be taken as something positive and liberal-minded...
