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1:05pm May 25, 2014

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deathcab-fornicole:

I see all these posts about people who remember when they first got sick, or the sudden developing of scary symptoms, or getting mono/Lyme/etc and not getting better.

I’ve been sick as long as I can remember. I’ve always been hyperflexible, always sprained easily, always needed more sleep than my…

There’s often a big difference, experientially, between people who were born disabled, and people with acquired disabilities.  (Of course, many people, like me, have both.)  I was also born disabled and a lot of what people talk about doesn’t make sense to me from my own experiences.  Like the part where people are looking back on the normal life they once had and feeling cheated, I’ve never had that.  I don’t have what always feels like a sense of entitlement to a normal life, because I’ve never had a normal life.  And I think it’s actually probably better not to feel entitled to a ‘normal life’.  Most people in the world never get a 'normal life’.