Interesting.
Interesting. I'm going to say that society in general is bad about how they treat people with illness or issues. It makes it worse if they are supposed to be young and healthy, it makes it worse if they are women at any age - women are supposed to take care of others, not themselves, and the general subtext that questions women's place in the workplace (still) does not help any of this.
As far as relationships are concerned, chronic or serious illness often also makes you vulnerable to controlling, abusive people, and that happens, too. Fortunately, it seems not to this young woman. However, I believe her experience with having difficulty finding a stable relationship. The feel-good stories of people getting married while they had cancer, or staying with their partner through MS, and so forth are wonderful and uplifting, but you never do hear much about the collateral damage to relationships, even sometimes where there are good intentions. Because illness is exhausting, to the unwell and their support network.
P.S. Notice how she mentions that one of the things people said to her that was supposed to be an indicator of health was "But you're thin." There's a whole 'nuther social problem right there.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/one-side-effect-of-being-young-female-and-sick-people-wont-believe-you-2018-03-15?reflink=MW_GoogleNews&google_editors_picks=true
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/one-side-effect-of-being-young-female-and-sick-people-wont-believe-you-2018-03-15?reflink=MW_GoogleNews&google_editors_picks=true
As far as relationships are concerned, chronic or serious illness often also makes you vulnerable to controlling, abusive people, and that happens, too. Fortunately, it seems not to this young woman. However, I believe her experience with having difficulty finding a stable relationship. The feel-good stories of people getting married while they had cancer, or staying with their partner through MS, and so forth are wonderful and uplifting, but you never do hear much about the collateral damage to relationships, even sometimes where there are good intentions. Because illness is exhausting, to the unwell and their support network.
P.S. Notice how she mentions that one of the things people said to her that was supposed to be an indicator of health was "But you're thin." There's a whole 'nuther social problem right there.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/one-side-effect-of-being-young-female-and-sick-people-wont-believe-you-2018-03-15?reflink=MW_GoogleNews&google_editors_picks=true
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/one-side-effect-of-being-young-female-and-sick-people-wont-believe-you-2018-03-15?reflink=MW_GoogleNews&google_editors_picks=true
Wow, those comments. She’s just faking it, millennials need to stop calling in sick so quickly, but what about my wife’s response to my kidney stones...
ReplyDeleteClearly, women are totally exaggerating their health problems, calling “cancer” way too quickly.
What the fuck is wrong with people?