Do people who twitch annoy you? I can only imagine the most shallow people would be annoyed by the presence of a person who may have a bodily dysfunction like a twitch. This also applies to scoffing at the visibly challenged, such as those who have mobility assistance devices, people with birthmarks, acne, scars, or anything which a select class of people finds intolerable. You may identify as somebody who finds–ahem–imperfections an inconvenience to your daily existence.
If this describes you, you may also be the type who stays at home, draws the blinds, and clutches the pearls if you so much as raise a bump on the skin while plucking a facial hair.
You’re bringing us all down, friend.
A series of prescription commercials are directed at a condition known as tardive dyskinesia, a side effect of some types of anti-depressant medications. TD can cause involuntary mouth or limb movements such as twitching. So can some chronic conditions. People suffering from these symptoms cannot control them. You, however, can control how you react to them. The folks on the ads say that they feel people are staring at their TD instead of at the person.
So people make other people feel bad about themselves, they take medication to feel better, and they still get picked on for having side effects. That sounds like a typical game plan of a bully: destroy everything until the victim is destroyed.
What kind of human being does this stuff? Hope that doesn’t describe you.
Life is not about catering to your ideals; they’re about blending all our lives into one ideal world in which everybody has a place. Some people are quick to ruin life for others because of something they perceive as a flaw, but the truth is the flaws we can see are much better than those we cannot.
Some ugly stuff is in our souls.
I don’t stare at flaws: I engage people at the soul level. I bring a smile and pleasant words and patience. Others pick apart and complain, swear and interrupt the flow of time with impatience. You may know some of these high-horse riding folks as Karens.
Karen is a nice name, not to be confused with an attitude.
Since some medications may have side effects, a patient may weigh the benefits of one over the other. In some cases, they take another medication to counteract the side effects of the one causing the TD. Now that’s dedication; they don’t want to sit at home with the blinds drawn and clutch their pearls. They want to live their lives.
Next time you get ready to stare at somebody who is twitching, just don’t do it.
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