get well soon

LJ | lesbian | spoonie | Patient for life, impatient for wellness. | Diagnoses: Lyme, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP), Dysautonomia, Non-EDS hypermobility, Complex PTSD & more TBD!

[akindplace]

Reminder for anyone suffering from any illness, physical or mental: you did not choose this. Yet, you are doing your best to manage it. You are dealing with it every single day and only you know what is like to feel the way you do. So don't let anyone invalidate your pain, call you lazy, dramatic, attention-seeking, weak. You are none of those things. You are strong and brave for coping with your illness, for trying to get better, for surviving it. Even on days when you only manage to make it through, you have faced so much, you have been so brave. No one can take that strength away from you. Remember that you are stronger than this illness.

[impatientpatient]

[perfectfeelings]

[akindplace]

Apocalynds on twitter

[supernatural-jackles]

Something no one tells you when you’re going through a tough time, is that even the smallest people will remember you. They’ll wonder why you haven’t bought food for your dog, where the pictures of your boyfriend went, or why their favourite cashier hasn’t been there for awhile. People notice you. People love you. Even if it’s for your jokes, even if it’s for your patience, even if it’s just seeing you around. People miss you. People love you. People care. 

I’m grateful for everyone who is still here today, no matter how hard it is. 

[spooniestrong]

And if you can’t do any of it, THAT’S OKAY TOO! 💙🥄 Know your limits and respect them!

[nightlyquotes]

“It’s never too late to start being who you want to be”

— Unknown

[akindplace]

Sunlightafterdark

[thehopefulquotes]

“and at some point I thought to myself: ‘no person deserves this,’ and I realized that includes even me.”

— Unknown

[akindplace]

Steph | Self-Care Spotlight

[byjove]

It’s funny when I say “we definitely need another lockdown” how people are like “that would tank the economy!!!!1!!” like I give a damn. My life as an immunocompromised person matters more than the economy, so do the lives of everyone else. I survived 2008. I’d be fine.

[byjove]

I don’t give a fuck about the economy, about your social life, about anything but my survival and the survival of other medically fragile people. We are not a reasonable sacrifice, we are not acceptable loss. Ableism is ingrained at the very core of modern society and this pandemic has been a horrific show of it. More people died of COVID in 2021 than they did in 2020. This is simply because able bodied people got tired of living in a pandemic and started pretending it wasn’t happening.

[pinstripes-of-doom-deactivated2]

people think taking things literally is just like

not getting jokes and sarcasm

when in my experience it’s more like

thinking you have to fulfill 100% of the exact requirements for something, when everyone else apparently knows it’s actually a bit flexible

answering rhetorical questions and everyone thinking you’re stupid

SAYING something with a literal meaning and others interpreting it figuratively

following instructions to a T but not knowing how to modify them if something goes wrong

wait that song was talking about WHAT??

doing EXACTLY what someone asked of you and them getting mad that it wasn’t what they meant or actually wanted

being terrified of people’s empty threats or hyperbole without realizing they didn’t actually mean it

memorizing all the connotations of different words so you can use them as precisely as possible, getting frustrated when others are inexact

still not getting jokes and sarcasm

[impatientpatient]

Okay wait but this is a thing that doesn’t just happen to me because I’m an “insufferable perfectionist” with a “bizarre” sense of humor?

[cigarete-i-poezija]

[akindplace]

Abby Rawlinson

[ashstfu]

i'm SO laid back, i only care about like 3 things in the world:

my favorite fictional characters and music

every person on this earth and their opinion of me

the crushing psychological weight of being alive

[pjmanxiety]

why do mental disorders come in groups like wasnt one enough why do i gotta have 4

[impatientpatient]

Nurses be like: “wow you’re on a lot of medications”

What do you expect me to say to that? If I weren’t, I’d be a lot of dead?