Twitter Thread About One Guy's Struggles With Healthcare Is Incredibly Eye-Opening

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Jul 29, 2019 7:00 PM EDT

Many of us grow up without really having to think about healthcare or the cost of just trying to survive. However, unfortunately many others don't have that privilege. Twitter user Jon Torsch exemplifies that exact sentiment in this Twitter thread where he goes into detail about growing up too poor to afford to fix his crooked teeth.

We don't want to take sides politically here, but we definitely can understand the stress of not having access to any sort of healthcare!

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  • 01
    Tweet - "Hello. I have just what you wanted - a thread on teeth and being poor and depression"
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    Tweet - "I just finished Invisalign. My last visit was yesterday. I paid ~$4k out of pocket for it over the last two years (even good insurance sucks). This covered two rounds of Invisalign, retainers, and tooth bonding/grinding to elongate/shape some teeth"
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    Tweet - "But something else drove me to spend it. I've experienced almost all of my life ashamed of my teeth. I rarely ever smiled for posed photos. Here's me at my high school prom, my two college graduations, and my best friend's wedding"
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    Photograph of two high school kids at prom
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    Photo of a male student at graduation
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    Face
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    Graduation
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    Text - 2,835 Jon Torsch @JonTorsch 2d Here's me the day I proposed to my (now ex) fiance, the day I took out papers to run for city council, and me with my late best friend, Frappy:
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    People
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    Forehead - CITY HALL
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    Text - Jon Torsch @JonTorsch 2d These are happy memories and I was happy in them, but I learned to smile without teeth because I felt a deep shame of them. The shame of being poor, the shame of self-image, the shame of envy, and even now the shame of spending on the treatment, have all weighed so heavily. 172 3,646 Jon Torsch@JonTorsch 2d In carrying all of that shame, and training myself to not smile "all the way" and having all of that shame brought up every time I felt like smiling in public
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    Text - Jon Torsch @JonTorsch 2d When I got home after the last appointment I got really overwhelmed, cried a bit, and couldn't quite pin why. It wasn't happiness or sadness. But there it was: relief. Decades of these feelings simultaneously resurging, being given a name, and being partially shed. t52 2,618 Jon Torsch @JonTorsch 2d I'm still processing it all; going through old photos to find comparisons bred this post. It feels great, I'm glad I did it. It also sucks to see what I had to do just
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    Hair
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    Eyewear
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    Text - Jon Torsch @JonTorsch 2d Dental care is health care is mental care; it's all connected. Locking people out of care and profiting off of needs are pillars of capitalism, and have no defense. We need a #Medicare4All that includes dental, vision, mental, reproductive care, et al. Anything less is inhumane. t 2,516 100 13.2K
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    Text - Amarachi E. @Amarachi_E Replying to @JonTorsch Real talk, this thread is very insightful But my inner snarky self couldn't help but to think that if you'd grown up in England, you would have fit right in
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    Text - Daniel Solander @solander00 Replying to @JonTorsch and @danarosemeow Time to update the profile pic bro! Awesome
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