Tag: invisible illnesses
The irony to me about that situation that we all chronically live in is the harder you try to protect the people around you from being uncomfortable with the fact that you are sick, the more invisible it becomes.
Amberlin Wu, patient advocate (via flares-of-fibro)
If someone doesn’t “seem” disabled to you, maybe it’s because they’ve been forced to develop a huge and complex system of coping mechanisms in order to try and survive in an ableist world. It’s probably that.
Mental illness is like fighting a war where the enemy’s strategy is to convince you that the war isn’t actually happening.
Unknown (via exoticwild)
Holding the Bowl 