/u/PistachioPug's posts in /r/TwoSentenceSadness
From the time she was a child, she defined herself on the basis of her abilities and accomplishments, not her connections with other people.
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I thought mainstreaming my autistic son into a classroom with other children his age would be good for him, but he came home from his first day of school with tears staining his cheeks.
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I'll always be interested in a more effective treatment for depression, but I don't think I would feel comfortable receiving a cure if they ever found one.
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When my brother came to see me in the hospital, I asked him to tell the other kids at school about the diagnosis, the medication, that the erratic behavior that had made me a pariah would soon be under control.
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It wasn't when they took my shoelaces the first time I was admitted to the psych ward that something proud and human in me broke beyond repair, nor when they went through my bag, flipping through the leaves of my books for contraband I wouldn't have dreamed of violating them with.
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The practice of bloodletting went out of fashion in the nineteenth century when doctors realized it nearly always did more harm than good.
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