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It's been made abundantly clear to me that there are people 'out there' who think I focus overly on the negative, or something similar, and who do not want to read my rants about pain, symptoms and disability.
In response to this, a public post to make something VERY clear.
If you 'friend' me, you accept my posts about MY life. This journal is for no one's benefit except my own. I will not censor, sanitize or play nice, nor will I pretend life is anything other than it is. Things have never been a bundle of laughs for me. I don't pretend that they are. If you don't like this, go the fuck away.
Furthermore, if your attitudes are not helpful for me - i.e. if you express sentiments that I believe compromise my right to equality, understanding or acceptance in society - then I can choose not to read your journal. Your choices do not have to be my choices.
Comments have been screened, so say what you want. Tell me to take you off my friends list, if you'd like. Or take me off yours. As for me, I will continue to be myself and to be as honest as I always was. My life has been turned upside down in the last few months, and is currently fairly close to unbearably difficult. Under the circumstances, I think I'm being insanely positive. But that's just my view. If you'd like to pretend that none of this is the case, I can continue chatting to you on MSN or over e-mail about rubbish - I just won't include you in my discussions about real life. Let me know if you'd like to be taken off my friends list.
All posts after this will be friends-only.
And the fight for equality goes on.
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. - Matthew 5:3
If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. - 1 Corinthians 12:26
He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm. - Proverbs 13:20
Why are you at my side?
How can I be any use to you now?
Give me a chance and I'll let you see how
Nothing has changed
Deep in my heart I'm concealing
Things that I'm longing to say
Scared to confess how I'm feeling
Frightened you'll slip away...
from 'Evita'
In response to this, a public post to make something VERY clear.
If you 'friend' me, you accept my posts about MY life. This journal is for no one's benefit except my own. I will not censor, sanitize or play nice, nor will I pretend life is anything other than it is. Things have never been a bundle of laughs for me. I don't pretend that they are. If you don't like this, go the fuck away.
Furthermore, if your attitudes are not helpful for me - i.e. if you express sentiments that I believe compromise my right to equality, understanding or acceptance in society - then I can choose not to read your journal. Your choices do not have to be my choices.
Comments have been screened, so say what you want. Tell me to take you off my friends list, if you'd like. Or take me off yours. As for me, I will continue to be myself and to be as honest as I always was. My life has been turned upside down in the last few months, and is currently fairly close to unbearably difficult. Under the circumstances, I think I'm being insanely positive. But that's just my view. If you'd like to pretend that none of this is the case, I can continue chatting to you on MSN or over e-mail about rubbish - I just won't include you in my discussions about real life. Let me know if you'd like to be taken off my friends list.
All posts after this will be friends-only.
And the fight for equality goes on.
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. - Matthew 5:3
If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. - 1 Corinthians 12:26
He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm. - Proverbs 13:20
Why are you at my side?
How can I be any use to you now?
Give me a chance and I'll let you see how
Nothing has changed
Deep in my heart I'm concealing
Things that I'm longing to say
Scared to confess how I'm feeling
Frightened you'll slip away...
from 'Evita'