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I'm constantly explaining to people, how my skin/joints/bones work. Sometimes people believe me and let me rest through weirdly specific things. Other times they think I'm exaggerating about my constant dislocations and intense pain 24/7.
It's a constant struggle but aome abled people are nice, and genuinely consider your health, I promise!
What not a lot of people know about asthma is that different substances trigger it for different people. And because of this sometimes people without asthma won’t believe you when you tell them something is hurting you.
Like I’m fine around weed smoke and can even take a drag or two off a joint but if my brother catches even a whiff of marijuana smoke he’s already using his inhaler.
I can’t be around floral perfume but some of my friends with asthma can be. I can’t be around tobacco smoke but another friend of mine with asthma is a heavy smoker. Some people can run and exercise fairly easily. If I start running I get an attack fairly quickly.
Some people get attacks more easily in the fog. For some people wet weather helps. Some people get triggered by dust. I don’t. Someone I know does.
So just because your sister with asthma uses perfume doesn’t mean you can spray a bunch of it near your coworker who’s told you it sets off their asthma.
Believe people when they give you info about their chronic conditions, basically.