#104 Abby's Twin Chapters 1-3

[sandalgoodness]

I always wanted to read this book. When I did get it, I read it in less than an hour. This is my first snark, so please be gentle.

Comments

[firemelon]

What school does scoliosis checks? Like, is this a normal thing in America, or just plot bullshit?

My mom suspected I had it for years, but reading this bitch whine about it scared the shit out of me. I was only diagnosed with a mild case in the last two years. I'm 24 :| THANKS BSC!

[rational_twists]

When I was in grade school, they did a scoliosis check, but I think it was only a couple of times that this occurred in my time there. By the way, I'm 24 as well with a mild case of scoliosis!

[magyck]

I actually had it done every single year, but I went to like eight elementary schools.

[ciaraxyerra]

i got it every year too. & i just went to one elementary school. & i was diagnosed with scoliosis, which neither i nor my parents took seriously at all. fast forward ten years, to my eighteen-year-old self suddenly having to walk with a cane & spend months in physical therapy to learn how to walk again after the curvature of my spine resulted in extensive nerve damage. i've been disabled & in chronic pain ever since (twelve years & counting). but my curvature is especially severe, & exacerbated by congenitally missing vertebrae & rheumatism. most scoliosis is no big deal at all.

[ruriruri]

They did it in my school in fifth grade and either seventh or eighth for all the girls.

[bcrowessteffi]

They did it in my middle school in 7th grade. It wasn't unexpected, though - they sent home letters explaining that we would be required to remove our shirts for a female examiner, and that if our parents wished, we could opt out. I had the test done, they recommended further follow up. I didn't have it, but I spent about a week in a panic thanks to having read the book "Deenie."

[firemelon]

YES ALSO SCARED OF DIABETES, thank god i dont have it tho

I don't remember ever having exams, and I went to... 7 schools D:

[with_rainfall]

*shudder* Even now, every time I get excessively thirsty, I have this little irrational moment of OMG I HAVE DIABEETUS... and I mean, okay, I know that's one of the symptoms, but the way the book was written was enough to freak me out as a kid.

[flipflopgoddess]

I think the hearing and eye tests are pretty common. I definitely got lots of those in elementary school. The scoliosis test I got maybe once or twice.

[promisemewings]

Most elementary schools in America do it in about 5th or 6th grade.

[firemelon]

Yep. We still have scoliosis checks. I know because they totally screwed mine up. Said I was fine in seventh- turns out my back's 35 degrees because my spine is twisted into an S. Thanks, public school system!