It is well known that one of the tenets of U.S. culture posits that people pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
Within that system, victims are blamed for their problems and, by implication, the sick and the poor are thought to have brought disease and poverty unto themselves.
To be limping or unhealthy is shameful, to be hidden from public view – worse, to speak directly of one’s problems is unconscionable.
Most of us are thus invited to struggle in silence and in complete invisibility: no one is interested.
The wounded state is perceived as a threat.
BRAINBLEED(s) - 3 weeks of ICU to UNLEARN
the particular knowLEDGE of forgetting to even be (but fortunate enough to be able to report about it)
