I’ve read this twice now and I can never get over how well this manga goes about living with an illness you have to learn to exist with and overcoming all hurdles. Not Just living with it and navigating your new life but how it affects those around you, and how you are treated differently wether it be with friends, strangers, in school or trying to get a job. But this also shows that with the right people in your life you can achieve anything a healthy functioning person can, part of living with a illness is thinking you are always going to have a harder time moving forward in life and with that mindset you start victimizing yourself and drown in self pity, but, you can choose to not let it control your life, don’t be ashamed of it and tell people how you do things differently or what accommodations you need to feel your most comfortable. That in itself is hard, you don’t want to be a burden to others, but if they truly care about you they will listen and learn about your struggles and they will be understanding, those that aren’t willing to listen don’t deserve you in their lives.
I think everything about this manga was covered beautifully, from his first love, to finding his first friends and getting through school to find a future that he can fit comfortably in while learning to prioritize not to settle as he wanted to find a place of work that would be understanding of his disability and where he’d have the same level of respect and not be looked down upon just because of some disability.
What’s even better is the part of finding community, he made a friend with similar hardships and experiences in life, thinking you’re struggling with this terrible thing alone and you’re going to have to deal with it for the rest of your life is not sound thinking, it just breeds despair and causes frustration and shutdowns. There are other people out there experiencing the same situations and being faced with the same internal battles over and over again just like yourself, even if your feelings aren’t identical there’s no room to compare when talking about illnesses and people should never say one person is struggling more than the other. Chronic diagnoses are terrible and to be aware of others with similar conditions is to finally feel less alone, no one’s experience is going to be the same we are all struggling here, but the difference between talking to someone about such hardships when they themselves haven’t experienced it compared to someone that is experiencing it is like light and day, they uphold the same care for you and that matters but to know someone has had those exact niche thoughts and experiences makes all the difference, especially how you view yourself and your own illness after that.
Just simply, this story being him finding a place to fit in where people listen was enough to make me SOB multiple times - “To live with this illness is to learn to cope with the ultimate form of loneliness”
I’ve read this twice now and I can never get over how well this manga goes about living with an illness you have to learn to exist with and overcoming all hurdles. Not Just living with it and navigating your new life but how it affects those around you, and how you are treated differently wether it be with friends, strangers, in school or trying to get a job.
But this also shows that with the right people in your life you can achieve anything a healthy functioning person can, part of living with a illness is thinking you are always going to have a harder time moving forward in life and with that mindset you start victimizing yourself and drown in self pity, but, you can choose to not let it control your life, don’t be ashamed of it and tell people how you do things differently or what accommodations you need to feel your most comfortable. That in itself is hard, you don’t want to be a burden to others, but if they truly care about you they will listen and learn about your struggles and they will be understanding, those that aren’t willing to listen don’t deserve you in their lives.
I think everything about this manga was covered beautifully, from his first love, to finding his first friends and getting through school to find a future that he can fit comfortably in while learning to prioritize not to settle as he wanted to find a place of work that would be understanding of his disability and where he’d have the same level of respect and not be looked down upon just because of some disability.
What’s even better is the part of finding community, he made a friend with similar hardships and experiences in life, thinking you’re struggling with this terrible thing alone and you’re going to have to deal with it for the rest of your life is not sound thinking, it just breeds despair and causes frustration and shutdowns. There are other people out there experiencing the same situations and being faced with the same internal battles over and over again just like yourself, even if your feelings aren’t identical there’s no room to compare when talking about illnesses and people should never say one person is struggling more than the other. Chronic diagnoses are terrible and to be aware of others with similar conditions is to finally feel less alone, no one’s experience is going to be the same we are all struggling here, but the difference between talking to someone about such hardships when they themselves haven’t experienced it compared to someone that is experiencing it is like light and day, they uphold the same care for you and that matters but to know someone has had those exact niche thoughts and experiences makes all the difference, especially how you view yourself and your own illness after that.
Just simply, this story being him finding a place to fit in where people listen was enough to make me SOB multiple times - “To live with this illness is to learn to cope with the ultimate form of loneliness”