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yardsards · 3 years ago

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yeah i just assumed it was supposed to make your sunburn hurt like 10x more after you put it on and like, relief/healing would happen after the pain? and i figured the only reason i never got to experience and healing/relief was because i was too weak to deal with the Aloe Burn Phase long enough for the relief to set in and always either avoided using it altogether or rinsed it off after a few minutes because the pain got too much for me to handle. i didn't realize that was Not How Aloe Worked and that i was straightup just allergic til i was like. in my mid teens.

Hate the 4 or so days after peeling a bandaid off where you have to wait for the stupid red mark to go away

#none of the adults in my life knew aloe was a thing you COULD be allergic to #so they told me i was being dramatic when i howled in pain when they put aloe on me #and i just took that at face value #like ''yea that tracks. i DO have a super weak pain tolerance. i must just be too weak to deal with the burning phase''#like child no. there ISNT SUPPOSED TO BE a ''burning phase''#recently talked to my grandma about it and she was like #''ohhh i just assumed you were screaming at it because you couldn't handle the texture of it''#bc i was a wee undiagnosed autistic kid who WOULD tear up if my socks were made out of the wrong fabric #so an understandable conclusion to make i suppose but still how did no one question it???

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