Emotionally Challenged

 When I was young my older sister died from Leukemia. She was sixteen. Yes, it was pretty much of a nightmare. Grief. Stone cold grief is something you can’t learn about in school. In public school in the Seventies it wasn’t really even talked about. I remember once I was in the nurses office I overheard the nurse telling the principal that I wasn’t really sick, just emotionally challenged. 

Big Stigma number two was that I was overly emotional. I wasn’t able to control my emotions like a normal person. 

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