I Am Allergic To The Sun

Hey, I’m Sofia and when I was a kid, me and my family always took trips to the beach. I can still remember how much I loved building sand castles and playing with those cute little crabs.

However, one day, I suddenly felt dizzy and noticed that I was completely covered in rashes and hives. I got scared and ran to my mom to tell her that something was wrong… however my throat was so swollen that I couldn’t even speak.

My parents saw that I was suffocating and rushed me to the hospital.

Luckily, the doctors were able to save my life. But a few hours later, I got diagnosed with “solar urticaria” or “sun allergy”.

It means that whenever UV light-rays hit my skin I get rashes that burn like fire.
To make things worse, my sun allergy is so extreme that I can't leave the house unless it’s night-time or unless I’m wearing a big sweatshirt that covers all of my skin.

You can imagine how my whole life changed in an instant. The worst thing was going to school because all my classmates could play on the schoolyard while I had to stay inside my classroom with the curtains closed. I felt so lonely!

And I couldn’t even go to the cafeteria to eat with my classmates because it had such big windows and no curtains. Suddenly, I was a complete loner without friends.

I guess, that’s why I hated school, but life at home wasn’t perfect either. I had to spend a lot of time with my evil brother. We hated each other and he always told me that my “Sun allergy” was ruining our family because we couldn’t go camping or go to the beach anymore.

He made me feel worthless and like I was a burden to everyone around me.

I also had nightmares where I tried to run away from the sun but it would follow me into our basement.

Once the sun rays hit me, rashes would form on my arms with blue slime coming out of them and then I would slowly melt like a snowman on the beach.

But most of the time I spend laying in bed crying and wondering if any guy would ever be willing to date a misfit like me. I was about to give up on life but then my brother had his 13th birthday.

My parents asked him if he had any wishes and he said his only wish was to go back to the beach. My parents got mad at him and told him to be considerate of my sun allergy and to stop talking about the beach. But he started crying, pointed at me and said that I was an evil vampire that was scared of the sun and tried to suck the blood out of our family.

I remember feeling so terrible afterwards that I went to my mom and asked her if she could bring me to a foster home because I didn't want to be a burden to our family anymore.

Luckily, I have the greatest mom in the world and she said that she would never, ever leave me because she just loves me too much. I guess that's exactly what I needed to hear…

… Because the next day I decided once and for all, to stop being a of my “sun allergy” and to finally take control over my life again:

I joined an indoor hockey team to make new friends. I bought a telescope to take my family to the beach and watch the stars at night. And I stopped thinking of my “sun allergy” as something bad that happened to me, and instead I started to think of it as something good that happened for me and that made me become a stronger person. [last time you spoked the last part of this sentence in the wrong way. I don’t know how to explain it but don’t separate “something good that happened for me” and “made me become a stronger person”, they are coming from the same source. But no worries, if you don’t get my explanation.

Now I'm in college and people here are much more understanding. Some even think it's cool that I have a sun allergy and there was 1 cute guy who approached me and said he always wanted to date a good-looking vampire like me.

Hehe, and I've also decided that if I should ever get married, that it will be during a solar eclipse because that would be so romantic.

I guess it sounds crazy, but at this point of my life, I am truly grateful for my sun allergy. It taught me that the events in our lives don't control us, but that it's all about how we react to those events.

The first 2 years after I developed my sun allergy, I couldn't stop pitying myself and I spend every night crying myself to sleep and wondering why life was so unfair to me.

However, now I’ve realised that complaining about things you can’t control doesn’t make sense. It’s a waste of time and energy. Instead I try to only focus on those things that I do have control over like studying for school or having a good time with my family playing board games and making jokes.
I just wanna thank you for listening to my story. I hope you learned something from it.
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