An Essay by Alex "I Am a . . . "

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I am a small bit of a hypochondriac, meaning I don't have any psychological disorder, or anything close to that, but I am more sensitive to things. I am not very afraid of germs or sickness. I do sometimes (and when I do its sort of funny) fear that I have some sort of disease. I don't ever eat the bruised part of fruits, and end up wasting much of whatever I am eating.

I always end up checking the milk to see if it is spoiled. I am uncomfortable drinking milk once it reaches near the bottom of the bottle. I usually force myself to take it, and taste if it is bad or not. There was an event that may be responsible for this fear of sour milk. I have tasted it; it is one of the most disgusting things I have tasted. I couldn’t even describe to you how horrible it was.

Another funny thing is how bruised fruit bothers me. I have come across apples with nasty bruises. It isn’t one of the prettiest sites I have seen. I don't like finding things wrong with my fruit! A brown hollow bruise, being eaten away by I don't know what isn’t a thought that I enjoy.

One time I was afraid that I had lymes disease. It was funny. My fear was that we were leaving the Midwest while the symptoms of lymes disease were pre-mature. I was afraid that we’d get to Arizona and find that I had lymes disease and that there wouldn’t be treatment. Lymes disease is a disease transmitted by deer ticks. Lymes disease is known to cause paralysis for a long-term affect. When you have the disease you’d be immobilized while vomiting, and starving. Doesn’t sound like much fun does it…

You can see above how I am a hypochondriac, but something that I am less of a hypochondriac about is that I let in disease. I know that my body gains immunities after being sick. I know that once I get some diseases I will never have them again, so I let myself be sick, so I will be less likely to be sick again.