#fibromyalgic

Healthy people don't go to bed in agony from doing minor daily tasks

Reminder that you're not faking because you managed to do more than usual today.

You're not faking it if you can do more than another person with the same illness.

You're not faking it if your symptoms are less one day.

There have been times when I couldn't leave the house without a wheelchair, there have been times I've needed a walker or a walking stick but there have always been times that I've done higher education or had a job and coped well with it.

In every single one of those times I've been a chronically ill person. Even when I was doing things like going to uni or having a job, it was still harder. I was living what appeared to be a healthy person's life while not actually being particularly healthy.

It's so easy to feel like you're a faker. Because chronic illnesses are so misunderstood and because we're even told outright that that's not a thing or not that bad or surely it's fixable. And we internalise that. We become our own ableist enemies.

Me: *skips nap time because it feels manageable that day*

Me at 1:30am: