They also served as a significant route of transmission in the US.
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Now I know this is a bot account because I posted this here a few months back
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no wonder it failed. It’s in English
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In 1990 I was attending a university in Manhattan studying art and taught an art therapy class in painting at St Clare’s hospital in Hell’s Kitchen when it was still hell. The patients in my class were in the late stages of AIDS i was told. Each week the class got smaller. If the subject were a sunrise most still painted it black. I understood why. The majority there had been intravenous drug users i was told and it was mostly men who despite their advanced state of illness, still flirted with me, a young woman. The stereotype in the news was that only gay men were getting the disease and it really felt like they wanted to prove they weren’t gay. That was my impression at the time.Â
 I shook hands with many in my class as they put out their hands for me to do so and It had become known that was not how the disease was transmitted, but there was still so much fear. Some I felt were testing me, and I think this was likely after Princess Di had famously shaken hands with people that had AIDS in the UK, leading the way so to speak.Â
The class dwindled in size dramatically and one week the only woman in the class was coughing nonstop, I felt so bad for her suffering, for all of them truly. But then an administrator there told me the woman tested positive for Tuberculosis and I’d better see a doctor. I was fine but the class sadly ended after that. This post brought me back to that time
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This reminds me of that old classic graphic novel, “Trucker F*g’s in Denial”.
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They also served as a significant route of transmission in the US.
Now I know this is a bot account because I posted this here a few months back
no wonder it failed. It’s in English
In 1990 I was attending a university in Manhattan studying art and taught an art therapy class in painting at St Clare’s hospital in Hell’s Kitchen when it was still hell. The patients in my class were in the late stages of AIDS i was told. Each week the class got smaller. If the subject were a sunrise most still painted it black. I understood why. The majority there had been intravenous drug users i was told and it was mostly men who despite their advanced state of illness, still flirted with me, a young woman. The stereotype in the news was that only gay men were getting the disease and it really felt like they wanted to prove they weren’t gay. That was my impression at the time.Â
 I shook hands with many in my class as they put out their hands for me to do so and It had become known that was not how the disease was transmitted, but there was still so much fear. Some I felt were testing me, and I think this was likely after Princess Di had famously shaken hands with people that had AIDS in the UK, leading the way so to speak.Â
The class dwindled in size dramatically and one week the only woman in the class was coughing nonstop, I felt so bad for her suffering, for all of them truly. But then an administrator there told me the woman tested positive for Tuberculosis and I’d better see a doctor. I was fine but the class sadly ended after that. This post brought me back to that time
This reminds me of that old classic graphic novel, “Trucker F*g’s in Denial”.