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Super Sick: Making Peace with Chronic Illness!
Welcome to the blog tour for Super Sick: Making Peace with Chronic Illness! Each stop in the tour features a fictional character who experiences chronic pain or illness.
Often, when a book or movie represents a disability or illness, the entire thing is about that illness; think Forrest Gump or The Fault in Our Stars. These characters' identities are entirely swallowed up by their disabilities. In other shows, characters with illnesses are only there on the sidelines to "inspire" the protagonist, in the way that Tiny Tim’s only purpose in A Christmas Carol is to be pitied by Scrooge.
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