I finally have one follower. Hip hip hooraaaayyyy!!! Thanks Takashi for being my first ever follower. Well, it is a good start I guess?? I've only been blogging for what?? 4 days??
Anyway, thanks for your comment on my previous post. It is true indeed. To think that how fortunate I am compare to some people who have terminal ill disease like non-Hodgkin lymphoma or other cancer with 50-50 chances to live more than 3 months, I have to consider myself as lucky (well not entirely!) compare to them.
I think what bother me the most is the people perception and acceptance towards HIV positive patient. Most people will go ohhh and ahhhh and oh-poor-you-little-angel if you told them that you are having cancer or congenital disease. But, if you told them that you are HIV positive, they probably will think that you deserve it because you were living an unhealthy life or you did what God forbid you to do and that is your punishment sort of thought.
I am lucky that I am living and working in UK, where people over here are more open and welcoming towards HIV positive than some other part of this world. People over here don't really bother if you are HIV positive. In fact, you can still live normally and do your job as usual without being isolated from people surrounding you.
In some country, it is a taboo to discuss openly about your HIV status. For example, in some part of Africa, if people found out that you are HIV positive, you and your family will probably end up been burned alive by the villagers because they afraid that you might give them the infection but at the same time they fucking around with the sex workers (unprotected) like nobody business. In Malaysia, if people found out that you are HIV positive, you probably will be isolated, been left out from the society and that is it. Your life will be over. No one will hire you to work with them. People will stop talking to you. Why?? Because they afraid that they might get infected!
Oh ya, Happy 54th Independence Day Malaysia!!!
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