Life With Autism and Chronic Illness

I can't describe how much as a chronically ill immune compromised child it makes me want to scream when my peers joke about COVID, not about the grim joke I love those but, when they try to diminish it.

Most younger people's attitude to things like flue and covid feels very distant to me. For example, in uni ALL the students I knew were breaking covid regulations because, while they didn't particularly want to catch covid, avoiding the risk of disease was less important to them than having the fun, sociable uni life they'd signed up for. It made me think, what a luxury it must be to never have nearly died from a dose of flue. Or been stuck in bed for three months because a minor illness worked its way into your chest stopped you from breathing properly.

Same here. I start getting distressed if I see someone doing more than one job in a day because my chronically ill self has forgotten that most people can do that without severe pain or even fatigue.

accepting that you’re objectively weird & owning it is infinitely better than being constantly desperate to appear normal to people who don’t even matter to you

The kind of custody that goes on for years, and where neither party will speak civilly to the other.

Literally the only reason abled people feel there's something wrong with the term "disabled" is that they treat disability as something that makes you inferior. So now they've come to see the term "disabled" as derogatory. What needs changed is the view of disabled people as inferior. Until you change that, you can create as many new words for "disabled" as you like, but they're all going to end up sounding like slurs to abled people.

This is what the abled people who bring up these concerns don't realise. Disabled people DO NOT care about the so called misuse of disability aids. They're not looking at people with canes and wheelchairs and sunflower lanyards and going, "But do they really need it?" And if you're worrying about an issue that the people in question are not worrying about and ignoring the one which they are (i.e. disability aids not being available) then you're doing something really wrong.

Yes, this! People do not realise how much organisation it takes to actually do these strategies to make yourself organised! Just reading this makes me want to have a mental breakdown.