I really think there's nothing quite so powerful as the moment when you realize it was NOT all in your head. It's almost like we spent so many years wondering why we couldn't win the race, and finally someone said: cripes, you've spent your life trying to run with only one leg! It's like some reverse version of the Emperor's New Clothes, y'know? Something where the dawning truth is cause for celebration, and I think only other people who've gone through the same get that. Most people, being diagnosed is cause for horror -- that now they have to acknowledge and deal with a disease -- so they don't understand why a sudden and accurate diagnosis makes some of us leap up in joy, for at least a few minutes, and maybe even want to give society the finger for so long making us feel like it was all our fault.
But it's a powerful and important thing, to finally have that moment, even when you have to wait (or maybe even more when you have to wait) so long to get it.
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Date: 11 Jun 2010 05:44 pm (UTC)But it's a powerful and important thing, to finally have that moment, even when you have to wait (or maybe even more when you have to wait) so long to get it.