why does the House fandom have to use #it's never lupus as their tag. it drowns out the posts in the #lupus tag made by actual people with lupus who want to find community. lupus is a rare disease and House fans outnumber us 10,000:1 so our posts get buried by House posts. living with lupus is already isolating and it's only worse when a large fandom decides to make your disease's tag part of their fandom tag.
sometimes I feel like House fans forget that there are real IRL people who have lupus and it's not just funny medical drama disease. I'm so tired of inappropriate, unfunny "it's never lupus" jokes when I tell someone I have lupus. I am a real person with lupus, not a character in your TV show. lupus has destroyed my body and my lupus is refractory meaning that it's not responding well to treatment. I don't find it cute when I talk about something that is killing me and I'm met with jokes about a TV show that I don't even watch.
putting this in the House tags because I honestly think some of you need the reminder that there are actual people with lupus and the disease wasn't made up for House.









