The disease is EDS in real life, and it’s barely understood. I likely have it, and it doesn’t affect my heart thank goodness, but very few people understand it or take it seriously despite the fact that it causes everything she deals with and more issues like heart problems. When I was 21 I would pop my knee out just by standing up. I dislocated my shoulder by sleeping. I was told it was because I’m tall, it’s not, it’s likely EDS.
That said, it doesn’t really make sense to name it. They’re in a world of war without doctors. They have healers and some medicines, but it’s not like they have doctors sitting there figuring out how to deal with major diseases, let alone livable syndromes like Violet’s.
I don’t really have a stake in this, I read 4th wing, I enjoyed it, but I don’t think it’s amazing. I do think not naming a syndrome in another world makes sense though.
Editing to add EDS was only given a name in 1892, which makes it even more reasonable that it was just a set of symptoms previously, and therefore a set of symptoms in a book set in a world sort of similar to our past.
The disease is EDS in real life, and it’s barely understood. I likely have it, and it doesn’t affect my heart thank goodness, but very few people understand it or take it seriously despite the fact that it causes everything she deals with and more issues like heart problems. When I was 21 I would pop my knee out just by standing up. I dislocated my shoulder by sleeping. I was told it was because I’m tall, it’s not, it’s likely EDS.
That said, it doesn’t really make sense to name it. They’re in a world of war without doctors. They have healers and some medicines, but it’s not like they have doctors sitting there figuring out how to deal with major diseases, let alone livable syndromes like Violet’s.
I don’t really have a stake in this, I read 4th wing, I enjoyed it, but I don’t think it’s amazing. I do think not naming a syndrome in another world makes sense though.
Editing to add EDS was only given a name in 1892, which makes it even more reasonable that it was just a set of symptoms previously, and therefore a set of symptoms in a book set in a world sort of similar to our past.