My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - "Best" aunt ever

Twilight is B.A.E.

So, back in the day, there was this disease, Chicken Pox, which, I guess people don't really get much anymore because vaccines are awesome like that.

But that didn't happen until /1984/, and didn't make it to the US until around '95, so what a lot of kids back then (back then, jesus…I'm not /that/ old, am I?) had to go through was hanging out with other kids who'd come down with it so they'd get exposed and develop a lifelong* immunity* to it.

I had to go to school once while feeling like itchy, baked asshole over it.

This was seen as highly desirable since getting it as an adult was /hell/ by comparison, and could actually kill you if your immune system was otherwise impaired. For whatever reason, the virus is just that much nastier later in life, but if you got it out of the way as a kid you basically never had to deal with it again (barring Shingles later in life or other complications, hahahahah, diseases are horrible) because it got sequestered in your nerves so your immune system could keep an eye on the little bastard for the rest of your life.

This looks like a callback to that, basically, complete with the red spots and pitiful misery.

Really kinda sucked, to be honest.

tl:dr, that used to be a thing people actually did and personally, I'm really happy with all the comments of people being baffled by it.

Only 90's kids should remember this misery.