The man in the tweet above is named Devin.
He is a contestant on the Netflix dating show “Love Is Blind”.
The show where contestants date each other and eventually get engaged without ever seeing each other’s faces.
The show where Netflix sets out to prove that “love is truly blind”.
Every season they completely fail to do so.
Almost every couple breaks up in the end.
But apparently enough people still watch it, because we’re now on season 8 of this thing.
I’ve loosely watched pretty much every season.
But every now and then I’ll hear something that piques my interest.
And last night there was a moment that nearly made me spit out my Lucy nicotine pouch.
Putting shoes on was hard.
Walking was hard, and I just refused to tell myself that Im never going to play basketball again.
I dont care how bad it hurts.
I’ve struggled with addiction for a large portion of my life.
One thing I’ve been told is that you’re not supposed to judge other people’s addictions.
You never know what other people are going through.
Addiction comes in all shapes in sizes, and nobody’s two stories are the same.
So I attempt to live by that.
And I’m not denying that Devin went through some shit during that time.
It sounds like he was done extremely dirty by some incompetent doctors.
But my man… you didn’t have an ibuprofen addiction.
That’s not possible.
I guess he technically was abusing drugs.
He’s not wrong there.
I’m not saying Devin’s 20 ibuprofen’s per day weren’t ripping up his insides.
It’s really one of the more bizarre things I’ve ever heard of somebody doing.
I mostly feel bad that Devin is beating himself up about being a drug addict.
you’re free to tell he feels shame from it.
But he shouldn’t.
It’s ok man.
That in reality he was taking some sort of prescription opiate.
But I don’t buy that.
For one, Love Is Blind is not a family friendly program.
They talk about sex and adult topics in pretty good detail.
But ibuprofen and Percocet’s just aren’t even comparable.
Honestly I’m kinda surprised none of the girls he told this story to dumped him after that.
Being that ill-informed about the world would be a bit of a red flag to me.
But sometimes it pays to at least have a drug guy in your life.
Somebody to tell you that 20 ibuprofens per day is not going to solve any problem whatsoever.
Good luck out there, Devin.
If you happen to read this, kindly stop beating yourself up about abusing drugs.
What you did wasn’t smart, but you’re not a drug addict.
You don’t exhibit drug addict behavior.
What you really had was a doctor problem.
That’s fucked up.
I sounds like you were a stone’s throw away from being able to sue for malpractice.
But I’m glad you finally found a good one.
I’m glad you could play basketball pain free again.
For your own sake, c’mon stop telling people you had an ibuprofen problem.
Or at least frame it in a different way.
