#enoughtohold
Okay. Thanks for your input, @enoughtohold. I thought that if you had it for long enough, it damaged your system permanently? Like most diseases that attack the immune system? Especially since he started with an imperfect med. If that’s incorrect, I’m sincerely sorry.
Frick, I forgot about undetectable = untransmittable. I’m so sorry, that wasn’t my intent. I’ll change that at once.
That is firmly not what I’m trying to do, I assure you. I listened to the first person that’s HIV+ that corrected me, and I’m listening to you too. Yes, I do like the angst possibilities of various hurts and disabilities, because I like writing angst in general. NOT specifically because of HIV. Any hurt or disability has a lot of angst inherent. I would not make his life a spiraling pit of sadness just because he had HIV. I just presented the mostly-negatives because that’s what I’ve heard and what I know. And as people chime in, I’m corrected, I learn, and I edit my post.
I’m working on learning. I’m not planning to write this soon, but in about two months, and certainly not without the input of HIV+ people. The first person has agreed to look my future draft over for dumb stuff, and I hope that you will too. I want to do this right. Like I said, there’s not a lot of HIV+ heroes even in fic.
Part of why I threw this post out was because I wanted to see how people with HIV would respond, what they would think of this. Evidently they think I’m throwing out a lot of problematic stuff. I get that. I’ll change it. I’ll do more research.
But I sincerely do not think that cancelling the fic entirely is something I should do.
If you still think that I should scrap the project after reading this, please tell me so. I don’t mind if it’s DMs or more replies, or even asks. But I would truly prefer that you respond in some way, so that I can work on this further.
Note: Sorry, I just noticed that I have to leave for a psych appointment in 10 min or so, can’t edit post and get out door. I want you to have this, know things will be changed, it just might be a 3-4 hours, no longer than 6 unless there’s something wrong.
