Reflections on the past two years, hopes for the future, and links to my favorite posts!

There are many valid reasons to use mobility aids besides a total loss of function. Here are my reasons.

How three visits to a garden showed me how much my outlook on life with disability had changed.

There are as many unique experiences of disability as there are individuals living with them. In this article, I will offer insight into the particular challenges I face and the privileges I hold in an effort to demonstrate a few of those differences, as well as some common misconceptions about what it means to be disabled.

I learned the hard way that sexism is still common in the medical world: the myth of “female hysteria” remains pervasive, women’s pain is often dismissed, and to some doctors, the only thing that matters is a woman’s fertility.

In a world full of ableism, choose to be an Anna.

I don’t have a body. I have an amorphous blob of pain floating somewhere beneath my head. It hurts so loud that my ears are ringing. An orchestra of nerve endings vibrating in excruciating symphony.

I don’t want to be pitied and I don’t want to be an inspiration, but those seem to be the only two categories in which people with disabilities are placed.

Here, I offer a summary of my 15 years with MALS, Endo, CIRS, and cPTSD. It has been, as Francis Weller calls it, a rough initiation.