I did mention OI in one of my write-ups. Actually OI is a rare genetic disorder. It affects collagen levels, so that bones break easily. It’s also known as brittle bone disease. Although the bones break quite easily, but it doesn’t mean it hurts any less. Even if you happen to know wrestlers, you may still not know the trauma of having a broken bone. It’s bad. It’s really bad.
Kids with OI often have anxiety issues, because of the worry & avoidance behavior they exhibit to keep from suffering a break. They sometimes develop post-traumatic stress disorder after particularly severe fractures…As kids with OI grow up, they want to be independent – but they can’t be as functionally independent as able-bodied teens. The struggle can cause kids with OI to become introverted, depressed, perhaps even suicidal.
The fact is…healthy people do not make friends with people having such illnesses. When I was in college, there was a girl who had some problem. I don’t know what it was, but she was a laughing stock. Everyone used to complain that she had a perpetual grin on her face. Once this mean girl said that her entire family looked retarded. I only talked to her 3 or 4 times, but my gang never missed any opportunity to badmouth about her. If she used to wave at someone, people couldn’t help ignoring her & later on they also bitched about her as they were embarrassed. I also had this classmate in my uni who was blind. People used to talk to him though but most of the females had this set opinion that he was sick & all that.
But then again we cannot experience everything in life to know how bad it is. My point is simple…if you haven’t lived someone’s life, which you haven’t…you don’t know what it’s like when that person takes some drastic measure & I guess it’s utterly heartless being judgmental about something you don’t know anything about. I don’t know if this world could become a better place, cause ordinary minds are mostly busy judging or thinking they are the only victims.
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I’d repeat myself again…in order to sort out any problem, we need to understand what has caused it & why there is no solution, if there’s none.
Have a good look at the pics…I’m not asking you to sympathize with them. I’m also not asking you to understand. I just want to say it’s a pity that people have to go through shit to know about its existence; & if it hasn’t touched your life, it just doesn’t exist.
Sometimes there is anxiety…you may not talk about it, but it shows. Switching into depression can be the next step. It may sound boring but a lack of serotonin impairs one’s capacity to concentrate at work, to sleep, to eat & to enjoy life. When this substance is completely absent, the person experiences despair, pessimism, a sense of futility, tiredness, anxiety, difficulty in making decisions, & would end up sinking into permanent gloom, which could lead either to complete apathy or to suicide. You might not have experienced this, but this happens.
I was supposed to write just on OI, but then I got carried away. Actually my conclusion should have been: is it right to lay the blame on the patient? But then it dawned on me…those who support these patients will support them no matter what. I guess it’s not just strays that people can’t stand & hate for no valid reason whatsoever, they also can’t stand anyone who is not normal like them.
