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.
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Date: 2006-05-14 05:24 am (UTC)From: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.