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I don't suffer with lupus; I first heard of it when I read about the author Flannery O'Connor who had it. A coworker's husband also had it. Just posting because I think this is an informative article for the general public.
http://narrative.ly/aint-i-a-woman/living-with-lupus/
As a child, Sandra Bettinger, now 55, was never allowed to use her lupus as an excuse for anything.
On school mornings, if Bettinger was feeling fatigued or simply didn’t want to deal with bullying classmates mocking her swollen body, she would desperately devise a plan to stay home. Standing in front of the air conditioner, shivering, she would hope for little white polyps to form on her tonsils or some other physical signs of her illness to appear.
“Look Ma,” Bettinger would say in their absence, hopeful she could pull off the ruse. “I’m sick.”
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