Those posts so utterly annoy me too, basically a) for what you say and b) as someone with a chronic illness which is often so very disabling (she says writing this with the added symptom of labyrinthitis for the last 8 days that is doing my head in and making life even more horrid) surviving is often the only thing we achieve over the year. I don’t need someone telling me it’s okay. It’s not fucking okay, it’s shit. Oh but at least I didn’t die! No, but many others who shouldn’t have did, some of them with my illness, almost all of them didn’t want to go, especially when part of a genocide.
(Sorry interrupted there and lost my thoughts)
So for those of us who literally just survived it feels like a slap in the face, a bit of virtue signalling, and very patronising.
Those posts so utterly annoy me too, basically a) for what you say and b) as someone with a chronic illness which is often so very disabling (she says writing this with the added symptom of labyrinthitis for the last 8 days that is doing my head in and making life even more horrid) surviving is often the only thing we achieve over the year. I don’t need someone telling me it’s okay. It’s not fucking okay, it’s shit. Oh but at least I didn’t die! No, but many others who shouldn’t have did, some of them with my illness, almost all of them didn’t want to go, especially when part of a genocide.
(Sorry interrupted there and lost my thoughts)
So for those of us who literally just survived it feels like a slap in the face, a bit of virtue signalling, and very patronising.
You have articulated it even better than me. Hope the labyrinthitis passes as that’s a horrible thing to have to deal with.