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Having fluctuating symptoms is valid

Not understanding your symptoms is valid

Feeling like your symptoms have gotten worse is valid

Having your symptoms get worse is valid

Feeling like your faking your symptoms is valid and happens to so many people all the time

Symptoms are not a fixed feeling. They can get worse and they can get better both experiences are valid.

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POTSie poll because I'm curious, but 21+ please because heart rates are often higher for people younger than that!

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is this all im meant to be? a wasted life lost between time and trauma.

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Archival advertisements reveal the trends of their time: here’s my collection of vintage ads.

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The Kiss of the Angel of Hope

Do not grieve, dear soul, even if your body remains ill and bound to a bed of suffering. I will carry you on my back so that you may bring the flame of hope to the world — the flame that God first kindled in your heart.

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Just because you genuinely care about something does not magically give you the energy for it

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Having dreams crushed by disability is such a deeply traumatic experience, the realization that you’ll never be able to do the thing you want most in life because your body isn’t able to handle it. Waking up the day after you received the news and feeling that utter sense of heartbreak in your chest. Watching people go on and do those things while you sit on the sidelines, forced to watch bitterly. That feeling of being trapped, imprisoned by your inability to do what you love. The grief, the anger, the sadness. All because your body doesn’t allow you to.

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"Disabled people can do everything abled people can!1!1!!" I'm gonna have to ask you what you think disabled means