Every person who's disabled, chronically ill, or just gets sick or injured a lot understands the self-doubt about the severity of their symptoms. After a recent bout of pneumonia, I'd like to reflect on the value of trusting your gut and how it helped me avoid the most severe outcomes.
Category: Disabled Reflections
There are interesting things to be learned about the relationship between pain and fatigue. Things that both help people understand the real toll pain can have, and help those of us in pain remind ourselves to take it easy.
Disability Justice means Immigrant Justice, plain and simple. Justice for only some is not true justice. We may have fewer resources than our nondisabled counterparts, but if we can use them to be resisting illegal federal actions or uplifting other people, we should be doing so.
Blessed Solstice, dear readers! As 2025 comes to an end, I wanted to take an opportunity to share some of the texts and stories that have brought me joy this year.
These are lessons I have learned from sitting with the snow. Take from them what you will, and please, listen to the snow yourself. See what open secrets it imparts to you.
Patricia (Patty) Berne died on May 29, 2025. I never had the pleasure of meeting her. We were not friends, or even in the same social circles. Hundreds of miles separated us. But nonetheless I felt grief, pain, and a bit of emptiness.
Spoon theory doesn't adequately explain my functioning. How come, even when I have the spoons, starting a task can be impossible? Why does task-switching require a monumental amount of spoons, while doing grueling work for hours may demand very few? Enter spline theory.
The silent migraine is a uniquely hellish beast that, in my own experience, has proven far more resistant to taming than its more common cousin. Follow along as I break down what this type of migraine is and what it looks like for me.
It's a lie crafted to shame nonnormative bodyminds which can't meet standards of productivity, output, and success. While it is true that you may be able to ignore symptoms for some time, they will always come back stronger than before. Disability is not something to be overcome; it demands respect and accommodation. It demands love.
This list is simply five of my favorite disabled characters across different media. Not the absolute best representation, or most reviewed, or anything else. Just my personal favorites.
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