Mmm I don’t think I’m ever going to forgive the PE teachers I grew up with, and everyone who backed them up, for making one of the things that could make my POTS symptoms better inaccessible because they ignored my protests as a kid and forced me to put up with those symptoms, which wore down my ability to tell whether I was ok or not and made many forms of exercise traumatizing and triggering
#Very darkly ironic#be unaware of a kid’s condition -> push them too far and activate symptoms related to that -> whoops that’s trauma now#My parents are still sort of recommending I exercise but I explain to the doctor that I can’t do that right now#and I’m working on it with my therapist#so hopefully that’s enough for them for now 🙄#Esrah talks#school tw#pots#potsie#postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome#how it was growing up