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How chronic illness decisions trigger others' projections

My endometriosis pain is so bad I'm considering a hysterectomy at 28, but everyone keeps telling me I'll regret not having kids I never wanted anyway.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Medical choices that could improve your quality of life become battlegrounds for others' assumptions about what you should want.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Chronic illness and identity?”

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