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Amanda Burchett
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Yesterday I lost the love of my life. My beloved boyfriend Johnathan Thornsberry passed away suddenly following a seizure. I was in a doctor's appointment and he was sitting in the passenger seat of our PT Cruiser waiting for me, because of Covid restrictions. When I came out I found him slumped over with his face down in the driver's seat. I tried to wake him, but he had fluid coming out of his mouth. I panicked and screamed for help. A bystander went into the building to get help. A bunch of doctors came out and pulled him out of the car. His lips were blue :'(. They tried to revive him, and an ambulance was called. They took him to the hospital and a nice lady from the doctor's office drove me to the hospital in the Cruiser because I was in no fit state to drive.


I waited for several long minutes before some doctors came in and told me he'd died. He'd suffered a seizure and had fallen in such a way that restricted his breath, and died from suffocation. He'd had these seizures since the age of 17 when he'd been in a bad car crash. I was usually the one to help him through the seizures, but this time I wasn't there.

He was 34 years old.


I don't know what to do. My brother wants me to move in with him, and I'm seriously considering doing so. Johnathan and I were planning to buy the house we'd been renting and were excited to become homeowners. Now he's gone and I don't want to live in this house by myself. This was my worst fear. Losing him. I have no income because I'm disabled and haven't been able to get SSI. I've been trying for 3 years to get on SSI and keep getting rejected. My heart is shattered and I just...can't stop crying.


I can't breathe properly without him. He was my heart. He told me every single day how much he loved me and how awesome I am. He'd brag about me to his friends and family. He kept telling me that I needed to keep fighting for SSI and that I'd never become a burden to him. He was my person. I just can't believe it.

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I got a new laptop today! :D Just lettin ya know.

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They've changed everything! O_O

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Does anyone remember being a child and being taught how to be good by your parents? They teach us not to lie, cheat, swear, or steal.  They teach us to be kind to each other and refrain from hurting one another. 

And then we grow up and we realize...a lot of adults do exactly the opposite of what they teach children to do. 

I'm 36 and in a lot of ways I feel like I'm still a child.  I try my best not to do any of the above things, and in almost all of them I succeed easily (I swear like a sailor sometimes, though...I don't feel bad about it either, so there :P). 

The parental mentality of some (not all, but some) parents are "do as I say, not as I do."

Forgive my rambling...I've just been thinking about that for a few years now. 
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Ok, right now there's a youtube channel called "Gwen's Deranged Hartley Hooligan Fun Channel!!". In addition to some random videos, the moderator of this channel encourages their followers post really mean things about a family with two severely disabled daughters, Claire and Lola Hartley. These kids have microcephaly, they're nonverbal, and they don't really seem all that aware of their surroundings. The comments below all the videos are making fun of the kids, calling them creatures, things, vegetables. 
I've posted messages basically saying I'm disgusted by all the nasty comments people make about this family. 
Well today I got some rather awful replies.  They appear to be justifying their vitriolic hatred because they think the kids should have been aborted, they think the parents are exploiting them, etc etc.  Instead of going after only the parents, though, they unleash horrible comments about two little girls who never hurt anyone. 

I'm very angry about this.  Am I going crazy, or is hatred the new "tough love"?
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