What was your initial reaction to “You have lupus” ?

im curious! ive read stories of people being either completely devastated or like, “…whats that?”

Ill go first! As a 21 year old who had never heard of lupus, I thought “oh i have the selena gomez disease” & nothing else

edit: second question! if you knew about lupus before your diagnosis, how did you come to know/learn about lupus? im always a little surprised to hear some ppl already knew of lupus’ existence & its harsh impacts on ppls lives bc i had never heard of it before & was otherwise very uneducated ab autoimmune diseases