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2:51pm July 5, 2013

 Urocyon's Jaunts: "Medically Retired"

not-that-kind-of-chronic:

What even…

Is being ill THAT taboo? It’s too awful to admit we’re too sick to work a standard 9-5 so let’s come up with silly nonsense terms.
I saw this term on an EDS website, while googling how to put back in a subluxed rib that was not cooperating.

They were…

I’ve hated the question “What do you do?” ever since I got on SSI at 19.

I still hate that job becomes identity to so many people.

Because if I say I do nothing…well that’s true of nobody. But the way people make it sound, only things you get paid for are meaningful contributions to society. And existing isn’t enough contribution.