Not-so merry Erry

this reads like it was submitted to a local newspaper in the early 1900s

I wish able bodied people could understand that being disabled gives you a fundamentally different relationship with hygiene. Would I love to take a shower tonight? Absolutely. But I am deeply exhausted in a way someone without a disability can’t understand. My entire body hurts anytime I do anything. I had to fight just to brush my teeth, and I’m lucky I could even do that. A shower is just not in the cards right now, I just have to hope it’ll be in the cards tomorrow. Most people seem to think that makes me disgusting, but this is just how I have to live. I don’t like it anymore than you do.

the more time you spend in active recovery from any given self destructive behavior or addiction the more you understand the common conception of the "relapse" as defined by a broken "streak" to be, like, so bad for one's own well-being that it would be funny if it weren't resulting in just a lot of misery and death

I told my girlfriend to think of quitting vaping as training her endurance by seeing how long she can run before she gets tired, then doing it again and hoping to go further next time. She said it really helped her.