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As a chronically ill person, I’m not resting because I want to. I’m resting to avoid getting worse and because my body has given me no choice.

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It’s okay if the only thing you accomplished today was keeping yourself alive. Existing with a body that constantly malfunctions is exhausting. You don’t need to ‘earn’ rest. You already deserve it.

- reminder to myself this upcoming week.

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Hey, if you’re not as mentally quick as you used to be because of your illness- that’s okay. If you’re can’t think as fast or handle as many tasks that’s okay. You aren’t stupid, you aren’t unintelligent, and you aren’t less worthy of love or respect. It’s okay that your brain won’t or can’t go back to how it used to be. It’s different now, but it’s okay.

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I’m so proud of people living with chronic health conditions. That shit is HARD. Idk who needs to hear this, but if no one else has said it: I’m proud of you. You’re sticking it out through so much pain and grief. That’s no small feat.

Every small thing you do for yourself health adds up. The grief is heavy and it comes from a place of love. The grief knows the pain is wronging you.

I’m proud of you. I hope on the good days you can be proud of yourself.

Keep going.

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Me lying down: I feel pretty much fine. What am I doing lying around? I should get up and do something. Or at least sit upright, damn.

Me when I’m upright: oh, Jesus. Oh, damn. Oh, RIGHT—this is why I was lying down.

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they say you can't pour from an empty cup but i've been doing it my whole life and aside from all of these mysterious ailments it's working out great for me

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kris misses being the sole owner of a bed (azzy's bed is currently Occupied)

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i think too many people operate under the assumption that emotions are some frivilous fantasy of the mind and have no impact on the physical world, which is a cute thought when Humans are an animal that can die from being kinda stressed out

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Instead of only collecting trinkets, I've now also USED them.

Please clap. 🥹

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what if we were... an aro and an ace dragon... and we went... frolicking on the beach 😳😳

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[ID: photograph large silver fish on white background. Text above reads “when you feel like a scared animal, remember that you are a scared animal.” /end ID]

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my trauma didn't give me my upsetting tastes in fiction. I spent my tween years finely honing my own home-grown and organic tastes in upsetting fiction, then a bunch of other unpleasant stuff happened to me, and most of it just so happened to coincidentally align with my preexisting narrative obsessions. this is the best way to do it tbh, always make sure to predict and pre-game your Problems so you've got the right metaphors and themes locked and loaded so you can cope in an artistically enriching way.

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I talk about my cat son Ollie a lot. This is because he is my perfect little angel and also because as a person who has been clinically depressed for almost 20 years it is truly incredible to share space with a fuzzy lil guy who exists in a perpetual state of Young Child Who Just Woke Up On Christmas Morning

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Pills.

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Hang in There!

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I bought some black clay and holy shit it’s pretty

messy though lol

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DANDELION | overcoming hardship, healing, resilience, hope

I had the pleasure of painting the illustrious Dorian for @daflowerzine 🌼 leftover sales are still happening!