I took the implicit test on mental illness and found that I had moderate automatic association with mental illness and danger and physical illness and harmlessness. I was both surprised and not surprised by these results. On one hand, I was raised my whole life not to view mentally ill people as dangerous. My mom spent years volunteering at a mental health home and working with mentally ill patients, and the lessons and ideals she took from that she taught to me. On the other hand, I grew up in an era of mass shootings where the culprit was often mentally ill, which almost certainly influenced my implicit view of them. I do my best to continue my mom’s ideals, and I don’t automatically assume mentally ill people are dangerous or that its unsafe to be around them, but at the same time I wasn’t surprised by these results.