“This post is about the lack of representation because I’m tired of books with chronically ill characters ending one of two ways: they die (and their deaths are So Tragic), or they’re cured (because how else can they have a Happily Ever After?).”Īs I said in the previous post about this: filtering in chronic illness to a plot, rather than relying on terminal illness to be the plot, will create the opportunity for both types of illnesses to be explored. Chronic illnesses shouldn’t be given less representation just because they aren’t exciting enough. This is obviously not a good message to be sending and again shows that writers are preferring to use more dramatic illnesses to liven their plots. “This is the message we’re giving our chronically ill kids: your stories are only worth telling if you die or have a miracle.” Here is another post about the lack of chronic illness in YA in contrast to the
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