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eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
13th Apr, 2024 12:40:30 PM
Disease by Any Other Name sounds closest.
The protagonist of a work set in a modern, developed country described herself to be "sickly since birth" and has, at different points of the story, consistently described her health issues to be symptoms that are associated with heart diseases, which means it's not hard for readers to read her condition as mainly that of a congenital heart defect. However, she never says she has heart disease, let alone anything further than that, despite the condition she has is, as one can guess, not a taboo.
I found it somewhere between Soap Opera Disease (I think Soap Opera Disease needs the condition to be poorly defined) and Disease by Any Other Name (which seems to imply the disease is well-defined but the society isn't developed enough to identify it like us—however, I read some would like to define it as Diagnosed by the Audience but for physical conditions, an idea I don't really like). Which of these are flexible to accommodate this case?
Edited by SamCurt