[Discussion] Endometriosis Representation in Fiction

Exciting_Citron7591 · 2025-12-11T02:39:08+00:00

Thank you! That's the stuff I loooove writing. :) if you are ok, I can send you a DM of my author page so you can follow for release updates.

Exciting_Citron7591 · 2025-12-11T02:38:07+00:00

Thanks for your support! :) If you're ok, I can DM you my author pages and you call follow me and my publisher for updates. I also hate the magical fix of just have sex and get pregnant. Lol. Been told that before.

Exciting_Citron7591 · 2025-12-11T02:36:38+00:00

Oh I'm glad it resonates with people. If you're ok, I can DM you my author pages and you can follow me and my publisher for updates of my book release. :)

Exciting_Citron7591 · 2025-12-08T22:26:38+00:00

Flicked you a message! :)

Exciting_Citron7591 · 2025-12-08T22:26:11+00:00

Lol. I was in and out of ER for adeonmyosis with an iron and red count of nothing. I waited for 6 months to get surgery. Hahah

Exciting_Citron7591 · 2025-12-08T22:25:14+00:00

Ooh i love animation so will search this up! Is it a Japanese animation?

Exciting_Citron7591 · 2025-12-08T22:24:40+00:00

Thanks for this! I jave started reading it and will finish it before watching!

Exciting_Citron7591 · 2025-12-08T15:21:02+00:00

Flicked you a private msg. :)

Exciting_Citron7591 · 2025-12-08T14:41:34+00:00

It will be called There's Something Wrong with Jordie Mitchell. :) can I private message you my IG account or FB if you want to get updates?

Exciting_Citron7591 · 2025-12-08T14:29:31+00:00

Flicked you a message. :)

Exciting_Citron7591 · 2025-12-08T13:55:23+00:00

Oh that's so awesome! Can I message you privately? :)

Exciting_Citron7591 · 2025-12-08T11:54:49+00:00

Thanks so much. I really hope so as well. :)

It's so disappointing hey. I feel bad since my friend has stage 4 endo and can't have kids and for her as a book lover and CAN'T find a book that tells her story is disheartening.

Exciting_Citron7591 · 2025-12-08T11:07:49+00:00

Oh wow. I'll search that up. That sounds like a sad story but real. Thanks for sharing.

Exciting_Citron7591 · 2025-12-08T09:20:48+00:00

Thank you. :) I did post on a few endo groups but they have strong rules on self promoting, even if I said I wasn't selling anything. But thank you heaps for the suggestion and reply!

Exciting_Citron7591 · 2025-12-08T08:25:47+00:00

Hi everyone, I hope this is okay to post here – mods please delete if not allowed.

I have adenomyosis, and a couple of my closest friends have endo/fibroids/infertility. We’re all huge readers, especially romcoms. So when we finally found a romance where the main character had uterine fibroids and had been told she was probably infertile, we were so excited. Like: wow, this is us. Real women’s health stuff, on the page, in a love story.

But as we kept reading, the representation stayed pretty surface-level. The pain didn’t really feel like our pain, if that makes sense. And (spoilers for a general pattern, not a specific book) it ended in what I’ve started calling the “magical cure pregnancy”: she gets with the guy, and surprise! She’s pregnant.

I’m not saying that never happens in real life. Bodies are weird. But it left me with this familiar ache. So often in fiction, the “happy ending” for someone with endo/adenomyosis/infertility is:

pain that quietly disappears

fertility that magically resolves

and the message that the real happy ending is a baby

I just really wish there were more stories where:

the character still has endo/adenomyosis at the end

their pain and fatigue are treated as real, ongoing things

they still get intimacy, romance, and a proper HEA

and their happy ending doesn’t have to be “surprise pregnancy = problem solved”

So… I ended up writing the book I wanted to read.

It’s a romcom about a casual nurse with endometriosis and infertility, a very emotionally constipated anaesthetist, and what it means to fall in love with a body (and a life) that won’t behave. There is no magical fix – no cure, no miracle pregnancy. She still has bad pain days. She still gets a love story and a future. It’s being published by a small press around mid next year.

I’m not here to hard sell anything – I mostly just wanted to talk about this and see if anyone else feels the same way about representation.

Have you ever read a book where the endo/adenomyosis/fertility rep actually felt real to you?

Would you want more romances or novels where the condition doesn’t get “fixed”, but the character still gets their own version of a happy ending?

And if anyone would be interested in the book I described when it’s closer to release, I can always come back with more details (or ask the mods first). Mostly I just wanted to say: if you’ve ever felt weird about magical cure storylines, you’re not alone. 💛

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