Trying.
Well I've been stuck in a flare up cycle and there's nothing like chronic illness to confirm life does go on in my absence– I can't do anything about it– but I can
2023
My Dyspraxia Diagnosis
My childhood and teen years became a catalyst for self hatred. At school, I was punished for my forgetfulness and my hyper-sensitivity. Why couldn’t I cope as well as everybody else?!
NHS 75 and Disabled Parking
An Ode to Friendship
Here's the thing:
I've never met them.
They make me hate time zones.
I love them with all my heart.
I didn't know friendship could hurt so good-
We are so close... yet so far apart!!!
Be the Change
‘Be the change you want to see in the world’ ...but in order for that change to be enacted, people have to see you so they can copy you. In order to influence others, you must have some kind of audience. To be the change, you need a platform! It is unfortunately not as simple as being. To be the change you want to see, you have to be seen.
Attendance Record for Life
My pain is not temporary, it’s chronic. That means it doesn’t end, it just becomes different. Worse, maybe. Quieter, hopefully. Gone, never.
My Red Hoodie
The pocket became a home for my guinea pigs, a safe place to store my DSi on road trips and holidays. The hood hid…
Monsters are Real
Monsters are real: Anxiety. Isolation. Fear. Illness. Loss.
Dealing with Social Media Hate
I heard Hank Green say that social media is no longer a place we visit, it is a place where we live. They have their own cultures, rules, they are as powerful as countries in their ability to influence, and yet they are not democratic.
International Women’s Day
Here’s to taking up space. Here’s to using exclamation marks in emails without shame. Here’s to loving things so much you can’t not talk about them!!!
Our Education System is Failing our Children
By treating creative subjects as less valuable we oppress whole groups of people. Never mind the fact that creativity is considered the main thing that differentiates us from computers and nature, the thing that makes us human…
I didn’t Know I was Disabled
It was only easy to call myself a liar rather than disabled, because it was easier for other people to ignore my needs rather than to help me.
The Window to the World is not a Screen
NHS Staff Deserve Better
Acknowledging that the healthcare system needs reform should not be controversial- and it is long overdue.
Medical Sexism
As women, we are dismissed all too often, considered hysterical rather than concerned, oversensitive rather than justified, dismissed rather than taken seriously. This happens to women everywhere but I want to specifically talk about sexism in the healthcare system.
2022
Kintsugi* means golden seams and 2022 knows a thing or two about threads.
22
As I cut the cake and made my wish, it occurred to me that what I wished for is something that most people wouldn’t even think of.
The Sea Gets It
Is chronic pain like the sea? Such a shock at first but you get used to it once you're in it…
You Deserve Food
I just want you to know you deserve food.
But I'm walking on eggshells, and don’t want to fall through the cracks. So I don’t say a word, and watch you order pizza without cheese for all the wrong reasons.
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