okay no literally i just started having chronic migraines this past like eighteen months and also just started really heavily following the flyers this year (i've been like a casual fan since i started watching hockey but they were one of the only teams i could stream like legally that i didn't hate so i watched a LOT of them this season) and like at first i was like obviously sucks he went through that but like it's always neat to like have a public figure you like that you know is going through what your are and then i got on here and everyone was like "he didn't use pride tape cause it would give him migraine 🥺😔" "that's probably why he isn't on social media much cause seeing what people were saying about him made him stressed and made it worse" like ????? please stop pathologizing someone you don't knows behavior based off a list of causes and symptoms you read on webmd????? and also maybe talk to someone about your parasocial relationships
sorry for the late response, ironically enough i woke up with a migraine haha.
i've suffered from headaches my entire life and chronic migraines for about six years now. things that trigger them: lack of sleep, adrenaline, dehydration, etc. things that do not trigger them: pride tape, social media comments, the city of los vegas.
when nolan patrick was diagnosed with a migraine disorder, i absolutely wasn't happy, but i sort of collect players with headaches the way i collect hockey cards. i wrote an entire commentary for my sports literature class about his migraines and the response to them. i've defended him a lot due to my very real, lived experience as a person with headaches.
that being said, some people on this site have no grip over what migraines are like. everyone's experience is unique and different, but just because lights can trigger them doesn't mean that exposure to the las vegas strip is going to pulverize his brain. i don't know nolan patrick and neither does pretty much anyone on this site. at the end of the day, we can't make decisions about how things are going to affect him because we just don't know.
what we do know is that he is a grown man with the medical team of a professional sports league at his disposal. he will be fine and the wack-ass infantilization of him in hockey tumblr circles is problematic at best and downright awful at worse.
tl;dr: please talk to people with migraines before posting.