Selma Blair has been in pain her entire life, enduring bladder surgeries during her suburban Michigan childhood, getting unnecessary root canals as an adult and periodically even losing her vision.
She had, and still has, ceaseless muscular-skeletal pain, and muscle contractions called dystonia in her neck that affect her speech.
Blair just thought it was normal, that everyone feels these things — that to have a body means to tolerate pain.“I’d compare myself to people,” Blair says. “I didn’t understand people didn’t hurt every day.” She pauses. “I’ve hurt since I can remember.”While making those comparisons, Blair was not generous to herself. “I was chronically a miserable person,” she says with a dry laugh.
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