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Quote #1234 - #CURS #ChronicUnderRepresentationSyndrome
20 Apr, 2026
CURS: Chronic Under-Representation Syndrome
"People assume you aren’t sick
unless they see the sickness on your skin
like scars forming a map of all the ways you’re hurting."
Emm Roy
THE FIRST STEP
"If I only could explain
How much I miss
that precious moment
when I was free
from the shackles of chronic pain."
Jenni Johanna Tovoinen
"It got worse still as time went on because people did not sympathize with you any more. They couldn't do enough for you at first, and that helped, and then they got bored with your troubles. But your troubles went on just the same and you had to bear them alone."
Elizabeth Goudge
THE SCENT OF WATER
It's like a chronic illness,
living under a government that does not see or hear you, that
does not care.
There are many of us who have lived that way
in more ways--for far longer--than others:
people of color, women, immigrants,
and, of course, the disabled and those suffering
actual chronic illness and injury,
each suffering their own misery,
acknowledged more or less by the society at large
depending on the current fashion.
For those currently in charge of the systems that be, we
who suffer
are
out of fashion.
So doesn't it feel like that? Like a chronic illness?
Like every day you wake up and it's the same oppressive regime
trying to go back to a truly savage time
when only white male royalty and gentry were seen as people,
as worthy of recognition
and representation?
Look at them, trying to change the laws,
trying to placate a madman king,
weaponizing against us
not just the justice system,
but the entire government,
abusing it, bleeding it dry,
weaponizing the government
against itself.
Like a curse.
I'll name it.
CURS:
Chronic Under-Representation Syndrome.
The curse this country was ostensibly founded
to get beyond,
the curse our forefathers
came here to get away from,
the curse of which so many have tried
with marches and movements and music and more
to break the spell.
We must break the spell.
Shellen Lubin
April 20, 2026
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