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Words of advice from my chronically ill mother:

Part of taking care of your body is not having shame about it. If you're spending all your energy being guilty then you're not giving your body the rest that it needs to recover

Officially a Member of the "Every Time I Google Symptoms It Makes Me Cry" Club

Disabled babes who have trouble describing their pain because it's just background noise at this point: I love you!

Regular reminder you don't owe anyone information about your health, disability, or medical treatment. You have the right to provide as much information as you are comfortable with and no one is entitled to more.

Chronic pain and disability isn't a game, I am not letting my illness win because I need braces or a crutch to get through my day. I'm in pain and whatever can help me survive my life is a good thing

ChronicVerse

I’m chronically ill. I have chronic conditions. They’ll be with me forever. My symptoms may fluctuate, but I’ll never not be chronically ill.

This is something many healthy people seem to forget. That we aren’t ever going to not be sick.

idk smthn i never see anyone talking about is how lonely being chronically ill is

Working in a custoner service job is an incredibly easy way to get dehumanized to other people btw.

This isn't meant to be a haha funny relatably upset post fyi. Like this is just straight up something I'm saying. People do not treat customer service employees like humans as much as they should. I've had a man hit me in the back with a bag of scented pinecones to get my attention to tell me he found them when I said I didn't know if they were sold out since I hadn't been at work in a week, that man months later was complaining about me to a coworker, he recognized me half a year later despite having completely changed my look and brought it up like it was funny. I've had a woman tell me to my face that I was useless because I didn't have an easy solution to finding a price on something before demanding i lift the giant, heavy tent into her cart for her despite being half her size, and she didn't even buy it. I've had people ask me to open a product that I am not allowed to open, only to do it right in front of me when I say its not allowed. I've had people laugh at me when I said I was the one who was assisting them with something and scream at me when I said I couldn't assist with something. I've had to uncomfortably chuckle along when someone makes a joke about how I should know everything in the store because I didn't know if they were genuinely just joking or not. People just shove past or into me, or keep pushing their cart at me when I dont even notice them, because they expect me to move. The most fucked up part? These people are always completely polite to me when I'm just another customer in the store. I've had someone who told me I should just quit my job while on the clock later politely say excuse me and talk about the weather when I was simply buying chips out of uniform. In the same god damn day. The list goes on and on and on. The fact is that even if you don't personally dehumanize a customer service employee, so many people DO.

This is ok to reblog btw, if you want to tell your own stories of experiences in a job like that go ahead. Just know that I'm sincerely sorry you had to or still have to deal with that stuff and you are so awesome for making it through that man

disability and class are inherently linked. the disabled are pushed into kind of a permanent underclass. poverty creates chronic illness and chronic illness creates poverty. there is no inherent conflct between the workers' struggle and the struggle against ableism. we are the same people, working through the pain or unable to work and thus plunged into destitution. out of sick days. testing blood sugar in breakrooms or unable to afford gluten free food.

Having a chronic illness is thinking "I don't feel well" multiple times a day, everyday.

Born to love rain but cursed to feel it in my aching bones

If I get told to try yoga one more time…