Angry Spoonie

Just a girl with fibromyalgia who’s pissed off with life. Come rant with my about how much chronic illness and disabilities suck.

[howtobeapersonwithfibro]

so much of being disabled is just being angry.

because how can you not be angry when you deal with all kinds of pain and discomfort every day. when your symptoms strip you of your biggest dreams and goals and leave you lost. when the world is so inaccessible and unfair for the disabled in so many ways. how can you not be angry when you have to feel this way while you watch other people be happy, healthy, doing things you maybe used to be able to but can now only dream of doing.

how can you not be angry at all of the unfairness?

[smoldragonborn]

made a meme for all my peeps w shitty lungs that are now terrified to cough around people

[yorit1]

The daily struggle

[pretty-little0ne-deactivated202]

I hate having a body, it’s so high maintenance! Shower this, eat that, drink this, sleep that, it’s all very stupid

[harrychapinwroteonmybones]

@i-am-the-immortal-one

[crpl-pnk]

you ever realize how able bodied people just are not expected to do things that cause them excruciating physical pain? like they’re just. not

if i shouldn’t use my cane because i can sometimes technically walk without it, it would just hurt like a motherfucker then abled people should no longer be allowed to use potholders to take things out of the oven because i mean

well they could technically pick up a hot pan with their bare hands. it would just hurt like a motherfucker

[crpl-pnk]

*sees an abled person using potholders*

i just think it’s really sad that you’re giving up on yourself like that

[crpl-pnk]

if you use potholders how will you ever build up the calluses necessary to pick up scalding hot metal without burning yourself so severely? it’s like you’re not even trying to get better

[darklingdawns]

I mean, my mother uses potholders, but she’s in her 70s. You’re just… too YOUNG to be resorting to potholders at your age.

[kipplekipple]

If you start using potholders, your inability to hold hot metal will only get worse.

[planouteverythingitwentwrong-de]

As a professional cook I was, and still am, able to pick most stuff up out of an oven without a pot holder. I might get blisters and maybe it will hurt, but usually it won’t

[crpl-pnk]

AMAZING! based on this one specific individual’s experiences i will now safely assume that it’s possible for anyone to overcome hand pain & leave potholders behind for good!!! as long as you want it bad enough, anything is possible!! make this story go viral so that all those self pitying losers who still use potholders know that there’s no excuse

☆♡LIKE & SHARE IF YOU WERE INSPIRED!!!♡☆

[benny-mykaela-castrielle]

oh my gOD IM SO INSPIRED!!!

[tidal-void]

i hear so much bullshit from able bodied people and they need to see this

[maximumsunshine]

Have you tried yoga and veganism about your potholder dependency?

[capt-coffeebitch]

Wait. I thought we were on keto and essential oils this month?

[maximumsunshine]

That explains the ads I’m getting.

[the-kings-jester]

Use em or lose em! Potholders will make you dependent!

Sigh

[harrychapinwroteonmybones]

@i-am-the-immortal-one

[angryspoonie]

It’s 3 am, go to the bathroom and my mouth tastes weird. Find out that i coughed up more blood than is normal in my sleep. Gotta love it. Just the cherry on top of this shit sundae.

[onebadghost]

tshirt that reads "I went to the doctor and all they tested was my patience"

[harrychapinwroteonmybones]

@i-am-the-immortal-one

[screenshotsofdespair]

[styna]

Me telling horror stories around the campfire: “And then... the doctor looked her dead in the eyes, and said....... ‘all the blood tests came back fine’”

[solitarelee]

living with chronic illness be like 

living with mental illness be like 

living be like,

[colourofoctober]

What on earth makes some people think saying “well, just remember lots of people have it worse than you” is a comforting thing to say?

[maplesyrupmoths]

I’m gonna throw up on every able bodied person who argues with a disabled person about access issues

[anaunicornzebra]

It is ok. We just keep doing our best!

[goodnightlove-akaylareid]

{Image text: "I am disabled. I fall sometimes. I drop things. My memory is foggy. And my left side is asking for directions from a broken GPS. But we are doing it. And I laugh and I don't know exactly what I will do precisely but I will do my best."

~Selma Blair

End ID}

[anxietyproblem]

[alpha-tequila-uncle]

Able-bodied Fuck: If your pain is chronic, shouldn’t you be used to it now & basically not feel it?

Me: If I never stop punching you in the face, shouldn’t you get used to it & basically not feel it??

[harrychapinwroteonmybones]

@i-am-the-immortal-one

[randomslasher]

A wish for the new year for all my fellow spoonies: 

May your doctors be willing to listen, your medications be affordable and accessible, your treatments be helpful, your friends and family be supportive, your employers be understanding, your benefits be enough to live on, and your good days greater in number than your bad. 

[thoughtbloom-deactivated2020062]

 I feel like certain people in my life tell me that I’m in a bad mood “for no reason.” Somehow being in pain and exhausted is not a reason despite the fact that I feel like this is a pretty widely accepted situation where someone might be cranky or at the very least doesn’t feel like talking much. I am starting to notice a pattern in the double standard of how chronically ill/disabled and healthy/abled people are allowed to respond to the same situations.