Hello again everyone, I haven't been on in a while but here is a rant I've been dying to tell people who also have auto-immune diseases,

I feel that regardless of how serious this disease is, it is often pushed aside. I constantly here stories about cancer survivors and walks for cancer and stuff like that. I understand that it is an awful thing to have, but so is having an auto-immune disease. I am still in high school, and whenever it comes up in conversation people seem so confused or have never heard of it. It drives me crazy because statistically it is right behind cancer in number of deaths. It is frustrating also because when I was on steroids people gave no sympathy as they would have if I had lost my hair threw chemo. My friends would say 'a little puffy face isn't a bad side effect.' and they wouldn't understand how dangerous steroids can be. I am frustrated with people who think that this is just a blip on the screen.