A small update on my college experience: I'm about a month from graduation, all my classes are going fine, I'm on track to have all my internship hours done on time…and I still might not get my degree this semester.
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4/9/2019 0 Comments chronic pain is like an abuserI have experienced both chronic pain and childhood abuse (verbal and emotional). When I think about the ways that my C-PTSD affects me, I find that there are a lot of similarities between living with chronic pain and living with an abuser. This observation is not originally mine, but from u/Ineedathrowaway34634 on r/chronic pain.
4/2/2019 0 Comments What Happens when we're hiddenI had a conversation with my husband the other day that really showed me what the rest of the world sees. He had come to visit me at my internship and bring me lunch, and there was a video playing nearby of an event the organization held recently. Obviously, just about everyone in the video was a client of the organization, most of whom have intellectual or developmental disabilities. My husband turned to me after watching for a minute, and then he said something interesting:
"Is it bad that I sometimes feel uncomfortable around people with certain disabilities?" |
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