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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.

[theengineer.livejournal.com]

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