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a lot of people love to make fun of the blood censorship that China and other places have, sometimes coloring the blood green or white instead of red, other times removing it completely, but it’s a really nice feature for people who have vasovagal syncope, I almost fainted and fell down the stairs today because I saw some stuff about blood.
I don’t understand the obsession with gore/blood anyway… I’m a big fan of horror and it’s pretty rare that it’s actually used in a way that is actually interesting (usually just for body horror). …So I don’t know why people get upset when there isn’t blood in a random action movie or something.
I just googled vasovagal syncope, never heard that term before but I often faint at the sight of blood. Last year I had a canula in and when they took it out it wouldn’t stop bleeding, I fainted and banged my head on the nurse’s desk on the way down and got knocked right out. I woke up with about 10 medics staring down at me. It was so horrible I won’t have another canula in, turned down a request to have a brain scan this year because of it.
I found out about this when we were in science class and the teacher poked her finger and extracted blood to show an experiment or something and I hit the ground.
I’ve always been baffled as to how people can look at blood without fainting. I have no idea how doctors perform surgery, I’d be on the floor instantly.
The odd thing is that my dad has it too, whenever he got me shots he left me alone in the room with the nurses because otherwise he’d faint there. Yet he somehow was a soldier?
P.S. third world mandatory service soldier who didn’t engage in any conflict, he witnessed one time one of his higher ups explode though.