#crip shit

something deeply strange about sleep specialists consistently being the only medical professionals I see who are unwilling to work outside of a set sleep schedule to see me in the afternoons.

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However, with chronic pain, which has no obvious external cause and becomes a part of the phenomenological self, when others react with disgust, it is as though they are reacting with disgust towards the individual with chronic pain. This is especially the case when combined with wider ableist social structures that reinforce the ‘better dead than disabled’ message underlying ‘sympathetic’ statements along the lines of ‘I wouldn’t be able to cope if I were like you’.