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HIV IS NO BIG DEAL!!! I totally disagree with this article. as someone who has been living with hiv since 1988 Aids dx since 1996 I feel like im in the minority. 27 years is a long time. I went thru all the med trials the taking of 40 pills a day which took a huge toll on my body and was told i'd be dead at 42. I have lost 6 family members to aids. NOT A BIG DEAL RIGHT? Well tell that to my mom who lost a daughter. I just lost a good friend too. she didn't hv aids she was hiv+. NO BIG DEAL! OK.
I agree 100% if you are in CA, but in SC the mentality is that hiv isa deal breaker, ive been + for 20 years. At 45 i work 60 hrs a week, every week. And i go months with no days off. Hiv doesnt hold me down.
Although I can't see any good things about being HIV+ when compared with being negative, I have chosen to live my life and enjoy it in spite of my status and occasional health issues. I have been doing this for the past 30 years. People who feel sorry for themselves end up alienating their friends. There are millions of people who have to deal with far worse than HIV.If you don't like how you are treated where you live, move. I did. I used to live in Akron, Ohio.
I think some of the comments here are a little harsh. Personally, I think it's ok to laugh at HIV now and then. I've been poz for 15 years and I get tired of having to dwell on the seriousness. I appreciated the humor in the piece and understood where he's coming from. We can't spend all of our time wringing our hands and cringing in fear. It's ok to laugh about it. sure beats the hell out of crying.
Yeah, to all the straight people protesting that the article is "gay centric", please know it's not. The author is off his rocker. For many of us, HIV is very much a sexual death sentence-unless your idea of a good time is sleeping with people decades older, whose only similarity is the production of an antibody. Since gay men tend to intermingle sex and friendship, testing positive has the added complication of ending friendships. This isn't "life", it's just the absence of an awful death.
All this only seems to apply to gay men. When your straight and try dating the doors are closed. No straight woman looks up info on how it can be managed to be safe. In the real world I have already died. Now I'm kept alive to live alone.
what bout them folks in the small rinky dink towns? most of these respondants are from nyc chicago la...what bout des moines fargo platte folks? we deserve a voice too I reckon, dont u agree
Aussiemedic1972
@Iva, I've been living with HIV since 1988. I hid away from the world until I developed AIDS in late 2003. The context of "no big deal" is in reference to a HIV positive diagnosis in the new era and not when we were diagnosed. The studies are conclusive that an individual who is diagnosed now have a life expectancy of a non positive individual. The caveat is an individual is actively encouraged to commence antiretroviral treatment as soon as practicable and not wait until the CD4 counts drop
March 30, 2017 • Australia