dawn's Chronic-L

I think one of the biggest misconceptions about fatigue is that it's just a more extreme version of tiredness. Fatigue and tiredness are not the same thing. The biggest difference between them is that tiredness goes away if you rest, but fatigue doesn't. When you suffer from fatigue, your body keeps draining you even while you're lying down or sleeping. It's like a leak's been opened up somewhere and your energy keeps draining away no matter what you do. All you can do is wait and hope that at some point the flow will stop.

actually if you’re disabled i think it’s okay to be a bit of a bitch. people already don’t believe us or are pushy about how they THINK we should exist to fit into their narrative. i’ve been physically disabled for a decade and i spent over half of that time letting people push me around, dictate how my body felt, what i was capable of doing vs what i wasn’t and so on and it made everything WAY worse. in the past couple of years ive gotten…well bitchy about being disabled, because no one else feels the way that i feel in this body and if not letting people bully/boss around my disability makes me a bitch. then i guess im a bitch.

Hmm... 🤔