Windows: Snippets from a Mind Struggling with PTSD, Anxiety, and Depression
CN: In depth descriptions of the experience of mental illnesses including PTSD, anxiety, and depression, generally emotionally heavy...
A Day in the Life of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
CN: chronic pain, detailed descriptions of health issues and treatments, emetophobia, mental illness, food and eating issues. A day...
Guest Post on 'Splain You a Thing: Why It’s Hard to Reveal My Disability to Strangers
To make sure you all continue to have something to read during my writing hiatus, I'm happy to present to you a guest post I wrote for...
What Ableism Feels Like
CN: institutional, social, and internalized ableism This was not the blog post I had planned to write this week. Earlier this week,...
How Did You Meet Your Abusive Partner?
CN: emotional abuse, abusive relationships Most abusive relationship stories lie in the story of how you left: How did you get out? What...
I Was My Boyfriend's Servant
CN: mention of suicide, domestic violence, emotional abuse, financial abuse, mention of sexual abuse, poverty, overall disturbing content....
New Clothes
CN: discussion of weight gain, loss, and body image issues; chronic pain, depression In the months after I injured my sacrum, I gained a...
The Blue Book
CN: chronic pain, ableism, images of mild body contortions I sat down at the bus stop. There were still a few minutes before my bus was...
Why Don't I ever see you Dancing? What is EDS?
CN: chronic pain, descriptions of injuries It must be strange for you. You arrive at my weekly tango dance. I smile and say hello, I take...
