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Pain Is Not a Permission Slip.
Illness can shape behavior and shrink capacity, but it cannot require the person who was hurt to stop being hurt.
There is a strange promotion that sometimes comes with a diagnosis: people begin treating you as if illness has appointed you victim, ambassador and moral authority at the same time. The benefits package is terrible, but apparently it includes diplomatic immunity.
I have no interest in that promotion.