Dear Robert:
I loved your performance in Twilight as the vampire Edward Cullen. I'm not a teenage girl, but I do admit to swooning whenever you were on screen.
I can only imagine how hard it must be for you as the heartthrob of the moment. Nonetheless, I do wish you had consulted with me before uttering the word "AIDS" in the way you did recently.
Don't remember? Well, here's a reminder of what you said:
"People ambush me in public and ask me to bite them and want to touch my hair. I just don't want someone to have a needle and give me AIDS and I don't want to get shot or stabbed. This is my life."
Maybe this was taken out of context, as they say, but you must admit upon reflection that the whole AIDS paranoia thing does seem strange, no?
I support fully your right not to be ambushed (although I'd suggest you take the biting thing on a case by case basis). I also sympathize with your desire not to be injected, shot or stabbed without your consent—it is your life!
Your understanding of how someone develops AIDS, however, seems to be a bit lacking.
Sincerely,
Oriol
P.S. I'm looking forward to your next starring role as Salvador Dali in Little Ashes, scheduled for release in 2009!
Oriol on:
YOUR AN IDIOT!! AIDS can also be passed through a needle - DRUG USE - that's how most druggies get it!! Dumbass!!
Although I don't condone the angry tone of the previous comment and the use of certain words in it (idiot, druggies, dumbass), I will leave it.
Why? It's a sad reminder of the level of hostility out there. It also reveals a high level of misunderstanding.
Pattinson said, "... I just don't want someone to have a needle and give me AIDS ..."
HIV and AIDS are not the same!
That's why my response was, "Your understanding of how someone develops AIDS, however, seems to be a bit lacking."
I worded that carefully.
I wrote "how someone develops AIDS" because it was clear to me from his quote that he fears that if he were to get stuck by a needle that he would develop AIDS.
Even if he were theoretically exposed to HIV by a needle, he wouldn't necessarily develop AIDS.
The previous comment states, "AIDS can also be passed through a needle ..."
That is incorrect, just like Pattinson was incorrect. HIV is passed, not AIDS.
Interesting article to say the least. What your whole point to me got a little twisted when you brought in the get basically stabbed to get aids.
I wish you well on all your ventures in life and I think that I hope at least someday we can all get together someday and not to use the words fight for the cause to be treated the same. Just we are who we are and say how are you today, without any prejudices.
omg why are you's arguing over aids?!!!
do you not have anything better to do with your sad lives!!!
Pattinson has fans who want to share their blood with him. Concern over blood-borne infection is quite reasonable. AIDS is a symptom of HIV as Necrosis can be a symptom of brown recluse spider bite. 'I just don't want someone to have a brown recluse spider and give me necrosis' would be an equivalent statement. Any quibbling would be semantic. Beyond that, perhaps you could clarify precisely why you believe it is wrong to say that one can acquire AIDS from HIV infected blood.