With chronic illness, you normalise so many things most people won't ever feel.

With chronic illness, you normalise so many things most people won't ever feel. You normalise high levels of pain, being exhausted, medical procedures and trauma, needing to rest after a shower. People see you surviving with an illness, but not all you had to normalise to do so.

— Nia | The Chronic Notebook (@chronicnotebook) January 21, 2023

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Making Kin with Disability by Sophie Strand

...most ecosystems these days share more kinship with disabled bodies given that they have been changed and interrupted by pollution and anthropogenic development. I have been offering more and more as someone with incurable genetic illness and PTSD, that it is to the neurodivergent, the chronically ill, the disabled, the terminally ill, the survivors who we must turn for information on how to come into relationship with beings and landscapes that are intimate with harm and impairment. 

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