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Why It’s Ok for a Person with Cancer to Reject Positivity and Not (Always) Be Brave

On the societal expectations of bravery from a former cancer patient’s perspective

Steffany Ritchie
8 min readJul 29, 2021

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In my experience as a person who went through cancer, I often felt that there was a societal expectation that people who get cancer are inherently brave or magically more positive than…

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Steffany Ritchie

Hi, I write memoir, humor, music, and pop culture. American in Scotland.