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Do you think people are too sensitive? Or that Superman isn't so super? Think cats aren't cute? The Beatles are overrated? Love pineapple on pizza? Maybe you just don't like chips rly. Even the best of us have some controversial opinions. Let people know what a monster you are.

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to tell them why they're wrong, validate a kindred spirit, or just troll them for caring about such a silly-ass thing in the first place.

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Vampirism is a medical condition and ought to be regarded and treated as such.

I guess that makes sense ... can it be cured?

If there is a cure, I haven't found it yet. [Not that he hasn't tried. and tried. and tried.]

The most that's available for vampires right now is proper treatment to curtail blood lust, and keeping away from sources of danger that are specifically detrimental to us. [Vampire mythos is widespread enough in most worlds that Charles assumes his meaning is obvious (fire and sunlight bad), but he's fine with explaining further if it comes to that.]

I had not considered the similarities. Please elaborate.

[What a polite young man. Charles will happily explain.]

'Vampirism is a medical condition' is more of an activist stance than a specifically medical one. Vampires are traditionally considered Hellspawn, and our various physical disabilities regarded as consequences of an inherently evil state of being. But I view it as a treatable condition. With the proper support and medical intervention, vampiric blood lust can be managed and a vampire can live a mostly normal human life, if a nocturnal one.

Edited 2021-02-27 15:10 (UTC)

Absolutely nothing can be solved when an ailment is defined as an inherently evil states of being. Treating schizophrenia as demonic possession, for example, instead of as a neurobiological disorder. Or viewing AIDS as a curse on an undesirable subset of a population. The fact that anyone needs to specify this is already a scientific tragedy, but I digress...

What sort of treatments are available? How do they work?

Wait. What do you mean? How? How exactly can it be treated?

[As a vampire who is very unhappy with his vampirism he's a little curious if this is legitimate or some quackery.]

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