And now, a wee rant

[mme_hardy]

...which may just have been building for some time.

Migraine is not ... a headache.
Depression is not ... the blues.
Autism is not ... bad social skills.
Hyperemesis gravidarum is not ... morning sickness.

If you have, or know somebody who has, any of the problems on the right, this tells you nothing about coping with the problems on the left.

Comments

[recessional]

OMG, suck. D:

[kore]

Yeah, and then I read Sacks's Migraine book (BLESS YOU SACKS) and discovered the little freaky paintings of migraine visual whatsits looked....almost exactly like the doodles I had been making since grade school. Heh.

I also wound up in an ER convinced my retina was detaching after about half an hour of little flashy glowing patches, like the after-image from a lightbulb flash. No! Just a migraine indicator. WTF.