You really gave me something to think about here. Not that I in any way disagree with anything you write, but it makes me consider my own behaviour. You wrote something about how friends couldn't handle your brake down (can't find it now - that darn highlighting function), it made me think about my own situation living with chronic illness and how I sometimes wish people would be different towards me. But then I think, I'm not sure I necessarily would be any different if I were them, if I hadn't gone through what I have. I might have been just as ignorant. We have a term in Danish 'berøringsangst' directly translated 'touch anxiety', not ment to be literally, but it means to be afraid of talking about difficult stuff, usually illness, so it's easier to say/do nothing or keep it at arms length. Sometimes I think, that could have been me. And oh, just want to meantion a song by Blaue Blume 'Vanilla', it has some brilliant lyrics about people wanting to keep your hardships to yourself.
You really gave me something to think about here. Not that I in any way disagree with anything you write, but it makes me consider my own behaviour. You wrote something about how friends couldn't handle your brake down (can't find it now - that darn highlighting function), it made me think about my own situation living with chronic illness and how I sometimes wish people would be different towards me. But then I think, I'm not sure I necessarily would be any different if I were them, if I hadn't gone through what I have. I might have been just as ignorant. We have a term in Danish 'berøringsangst' directly translated 'touch anxiety', not ment to be literally, but it means to be afraid of talking about difficult stuff, usually illness, so it's easier to say/do nothing or keep it at arms length. Sometimes I think, that could have been me. And oh, just want to meantion a song by Blaue Blume 'Vanilla', it has some brilliant lyrics about people wanting to keep your hardships to yourself.