Running out of seasons, days, ideas, information, blog notes.
Running away from allergies... No not really. Hardly ever not a sign from allergies.
These last days things are pretty well under control, and that's good.
Too many severe reactions during the last couple of months and those are exhausting.
What is many then ? It's probably very personal to answer this question. My allergy daughter would certainly respond in a modest way, while she waves all sorrow away with lightness like the butterfly dances on the tunes of fresh breath of the wind. She could easily forget the reactions she had. Most recently during spring break in Amsterdam and short before in march after a school day in Rabat. Others will come up with answers and long descriptions of the specific situation and so and so reaction. Where some won't share an answer at all, blowing their experiences away because of feelings of insecurity, anxiety, misunderstanding, vulnerability.
IN her words, picked with caution my colorful girl is neither without doubt nor without proud. The action, the expression of attitude are connected with a range of feelings and colored by a mood, a moment.
I know that sharing the fact of being allergic is not always easy. And much of the resistance is connected to the questions we pose ourselves. Often we are driven, challenged or stopped in our actions by the voices, the questions in our own head. The answers we receive to our own answers, the feelings we have about the environment, the doubt to act or not. being a minority makes that you feel overruled and in a learning environment where you spend most of your time it's a fight to get your personal message out. And is it necessary in the end? I don't know. I am surprised though that my daughter hardly speaks about the allergies she's facing. And yet it doesn't shocks me at the same time. It's fare more in the expectations of the things that we could hope that openness and straight forward speaking are elements truly implemented in today's teens life. The mirror though sends another image. There's in the schedule and the lack of time, spare slots in full booked agenda's not such a thing as 'what's bothering you' ' is this about your health'. And this hasn't change so much since long. Being different makes that you should come up with something hyper, hot, glossy, way to wow or what have you. Sites about teens and their allergies are mostly evolving under the wings of an adult site and with a truly a back up from professionals and teams of specialists. Out there, in the school yard, at the picnic table, during a school trip, entrance at high school, another Prom it is in most of these situations about one self and the guts to speak out for your self and to stay very steady on your both feet.
It's definitely as beautiful as the colors in the pencil box. But she will draw her lines in H and B.