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9:29pm June 10, 2014

misandryforlyf:

Medical bracelets are a nice idea and all but if you think I’m going to go around with a thing on my arm saying “epilepsy” you have no fucking idea how much stigma we get already. Might as well tattoo my entire medical history on my forehead so people can watch me like a hawk and freak out every-time I look a bit sleepy in class. 

I might have that reaction depending on what disorder I had.

But when I got diagnosed with adrenal insufficiency, I was like “screw all these bracelets that engrave your disorder discreetly on the back, I need this in big letters right on the front where everyone can see it”.  Because I’ve already nearly died from adrenal crises so many times, I need people to know that I’m steroid-dependent and that I can go into adrenal crisis from stress or illness, and die.  

I figured screw it, even if people do figure out everything wrong with me, after all I’ve been through, I want to live.

YMMV of course, and I’m not saying your reaction is wrong for your situation.  I’m just thinking how different my reaction was.  How happy I was to find a bracelet that had it in huge letters on the outside of the bracelet, and a fairly wide bracelet at that.