Deb feels that her physical looks led to assumptions.
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And the fact that the doctors were so rude to me. So utterly mean to me. They saw one or two tattoos on my body. They made assumptions. I didn’t smoke. I didn’t drink. I ran a 24-hour a day daycare for single moms that were on shift work. I couldn’t drink. I couldn’t party. I couldn’t afford to. But I’m not like that. But they made assumptions about me, they really did. And I think those assumptions you know, got put in a file. Because every time I went back and saw someone different, but they all had the same ‘oh, oh, oh’ and they just passed me on.
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