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Post by gurrrrrrrrrrrlfriend on Dec 25, 2013 11:22:08 GMT -5
So, I got this idea from a poster on TV Tropes. Stacey's diabetes is used as a stand-in for HIV/AIDS.
The series took place in the 80s and 90s. People ostracized Stacey for her disease. She loses all her friends because of it. Even though just being around Stacey can't make someone contract the disease, people are misinformed and avoid her. Stacey starts to view her disease as a shameful secret, but the amazingly tolerant BSC accept her for it.
Has anyone else ever thought about this? This would also explain the NYC kids seeming to know more about the disease than the Stoneybrookites.
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Post by greer on Dec 25, 2013 12:27:47 GMT -5
Didn't the NYC kids know less and seem to think it was catching? I don't know if Ann was consciously going for that, but the way the NYC kid reacted to Stacey's illness does fit in your theory.
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Post by gurrrrrrrrrrrlfriend on Dec 27, 2013 8:53:30 GMT -5
I thought the other baby-sitters, except Kristy, didn't even know what diabetes is.
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Post by greer on Dec 27, 2013 14:18:17 GMT -5
I thought the other baby-sitters, except Kristy, didn't even know what diabetes is. None of them seemed to think it was catching - although maybe because there was no Laine to spread rumors.
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Post by Sideshowjazz1 on Jun 6, 2014 20:46:38 GMT -5
I thought the other baby-sitters, except Kristy, didn't even know what diabetes is. None of them seemed to think it was catching - although maybe because there was no Laine to spread rumors. It wasn't Laine who first said it was catching. One of the kids in her class said it, and she believed it. That's why she started avoiding Stacey.
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Post by bscfan1997 on Oct 10, 2015 20:34:24 GMT -5
Yes, I've read about the diabetes as AIDS/HIV online. They truly did treat diabetes as a disease as awful as AIDS/HIV.
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Post by jessi82 on Oct 15, 2020 19:54:52 GMT -5
So, I got this idea from a poster on TV Tropes. Stacey's diabetes is used as a stand-in for HIV/AIDS. The series took place in the 80s and 90s. People ostracized Stacey for her disease. She loses all her friends because of it. Even though just being around Stacey can't make someone contract the disease, people are misinformed and avoid her. Stacey starts to view her disease as a shameful secret, but the amazingly tolerant BSC accept her for it. Has anyone else ever thought about this? This would also explain the NYC kids seeming to know more about the disease than the Stoneybrookites. Interesting thought. I also think Stacey's
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Post by jessi82 on Oct 15, 2020 20:20:12 GMT -5
So, I got this idea from a poster on TV Tropes. Stacey's diabetes is used as a stand-in for HIV/AIDS. The series took place in the 80s and 90s. People ostracized Stacey for her disease. She loses all her friends because of it. Even though just being around Stacey can't make someone contract the disease, people are misinformed and avoid her. Stacey starts to view her disease as a shameful secret, but the amazingly tolerant BSC accept her for it. Has anyone else ever thought about this? This would also explain the NYC kids seeming to know more about the disease than the Stoneybrookites. Interesting thought. I also think Stacey's illness was a message to the audience to say we all have problems. After all Stacey is the character that seems to be a fan favourite and who most readers wanted to be except for the diabetes and the divorce. It is like saying just because someone's life appears perfect doesn't mean it is
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Post by cnj on Apr 14, 2021 3:18:15 GMT -5
Laine, for all her bragging about being oh-so-sophisticated, was actually an ignorant, rather unsophisticated dodo.
No wonder she later got mixed up with Q-Anon in adulthood and ended up shot to death.
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