#unrelated i am Suffering from a flare and i hate life so bad rn

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its all fun and games, all “your skin is beautiful <3 <3~!” positivity when eczema is an abstract “vaguely red rash” to someone.

Real easy to SAY someone looks good with eczema when your whole experience with the condition is “has some dandruff sometimes”.

Then someone will see your body half bloody and raw all over. They’ll actually SEE your scalp sloughing skin while you have big, angry red marks underneath. See the furrows your nails dig in the inflamed tissue, even if you’re trying to be so, so, so careful. They’ll see an eye swollen near shut while the lid peels. They’ll see the hunks of dead skin in your eyebrows, the flakes on your glasses, notice how the skin on your hands cracks.

Then it’s REAL. Then its a barely restrained ‘ew’ response. The fight to keep a straight face so they don’t show you how gross they think you are. Or worse, a look of pity.

Its really easy to slap together a positivity post when you don’t know that most of us don’t care about looking beautiful-- we’re way past that. We’re firmly in “would like for people to not react like we have the plague” territory.