Laura Fernsten

I haven’t really been keeping up on my posts, and I apologize! (Then again, I don’t think anybody really reads this thing anyway)

Something hit me today, that has been bugging me for a while. People see me as a disease and 3 herniated discs. They don’t see me as a person. Yes, I have a condition, but my condition doesn’t defy who I am. I just find it kinda sad that people don’t invite me to certain things because of my back. It would be nice if they invited and when I said “I don’t know… I probably can’t without hurting tomorrow” they say maybe “you could still come and watch us” or “come be our team cheerleader!” or something like that. You can still invite me… it’s not like I am a leper. And it kinda sucks that people consider taking me on dates, then they find out about my back and they don’t want to “mess my back up more”. I still have a life, and have to live. I just have to do things differently. I can’t be the most physically active person, but I can at least try as much as I can. Is it that hard to try to be nice?