[Rainbowfox Ari]

Dear Arri,

Why do you spend so much time fighting and arguing about the things that are a part of you that you just can't change? There are so many people so worse off than you, and yet you turn defensive at the slightest bit of a hint that you might not be 'normal' - or might have something wrong with you. These things happen, and they WILL happen, because of who you are, and how your body works. These things aren't curable. And the treatments aren't exactly top-notch - the condition has only been known for.. what.. 20 years? If that? Of course they don't have 'tried and true' methods for this sort of thing yet. Yippee - you get to be a test subject. As are the other people that have the condition.

You just have to be one of the subjects with seventeen-billion other problems as well as your condition. Good luck getting through things. But your mom said it best 'You're a survivor' - You've been through the Hell of highschool, the self-destruction of early college, and the abandonment and lies of false friends. You can make it through this.

- Sincerely, Yourself