I am so pretty
Cancel Culture needs Cancelling
My Experience with the Mirena Coil*
The Problems with Social Media
Luxury
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?!
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.
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
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.
The Cliff Edge
As a child, I used to think there was a 'right' and 'wrong' answer to every question, that adults know what they are doing, and that love is always enough. These things are nice concepts, and entirely untrue.
The Cliff Edge (Poem)
The endless cycle of chronic pain
2021
I pleaded with 2020 to be gentle, to be kind. She had no such thing in mind. I asked nothing of 21. I've tried expectations and now I've tried none.
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