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Living with food intolerance

I wrote about how I self-diagnosed my food intolerance, and how it’s affected my life. 

The idea of ‘temporary disability’ led me to the idea that bodies cannot be conveniently categorised into able and disabled. That abilities can ebb and flow, morph and disappear and reappear. You might get in an accident and lose mobility: you might heal from that completely or you might not. You might fall sick and be too weak to function ‘normally’ for a few weeks. None of us is impervious. Activists use the term ‘temporarily able-bodied’ to signify that even the healthiest body may not always remain so.

And slowly, I learned to accept my body’s quirks and appreciate its strength:

In spite of all the poison I have fed it, my body continues to function and heal itself.

Here, read the whole thing.