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[moon_custafer]

I apoligized to Anonymous Don in person today at the Friends of the Merril AGM, and he said he wasn't mad at me, he'd just had a good rant going and wanted to post it. i think he was a little disappointed about LJ ruining his formatting, though. I told him that the incident had had me worried, mainly because it reinforced a trend I've been noticing for a few years, where the majority of the people I'm friends with, including my husband, have chronic illnesses of one kind or another. This seems like more than coincidence, but I don't know what it means - am I radioactive? Does some perverted ego-gratifaction need make me attracted to sick people? Are most people sick a lot of the time and nobody talks about it? Don's diagnosis:

"Healthy people are boring."


:)

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[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

Are most people sick a lot of the time and nobody talks about it?

I think this is a big part of it. In fandom we tend to be more open about sharing things that others would normally keep private, and that includes health-related topics.

Or, as Toddy (Robert Preston) put it in "Victor/Victoria," which is one of my top five favourite movies of all time: "Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race."

We take that philosophy to heart much more readily than most mundanes.

[(Anonymous)]

Margaret Visser, who guest-lectured a few times in a course I once took from her husband*, likes to talk about the difference between shame and guilt - basically she defines shame as something that's imposed on you from outside, and guilt as what you feel when you believe you've done wrong. Guilt is a more advanced and positive concept, because (in theory, at least), you only feel it if you have actually done something bad, and you can atone for it, whereas you and your family can be shamed by, for instance, being raped, and about all you can do to get rid of it is kill yourself or kill the person who did it to you...


*Colin Visser. They look fairly similar except he's bald and she has bright red hair in a somewhat '20s do, and one of my classmates was conviced Colin just occasionally showed up in drag, but I've seen them standing next to each other, so I know they're different people...


/Sarah

[theengineer.livejournal.com]

Hey, I've got bad eyes and teeth, but besides that everything is working fine.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I think you're the exception among my friends.


Teeth?


Also my brother rarely gets sick, but when he does it's usually something weird, like eyelash dandruff.

[theengineer.livejournal.com]

Teeth?

I've got a filling in almost every tooth. Havne't lost any of them yet, though.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

It's not really an illness, but I remember my baby teeth were really stubborn, and almost all, it seems, had to eventually be removed by the dentist (I think I also had a few adult molars that there wasn't room for). Let's just say it's how I lost my fear of needles.


Also, Dr Paul's waiting room was where I first read EC Comics.