06/03/2026
Yeah… you heard me right. 🙃
I did this once on an x-ray only to be told it was a gift and I should be grateful, be nicer to my mom (love you mom) and use it to run away with the circus! 🥴 My medical care has come a long way since then but I also didn’t even get diagnosed with anything relevant until 12 whole years later.
Sometimes all we can do as the patient is educate ourselves on how to best listen to our bodies and study how to give them what they need.
It’s an intimidating task especially when everyone has an opinion, but if you’re reading this and you’re searching for some kind of answer that doctors just won’t (or can’t) give you, I encourage you to do the silly things, be curious about other people’s bodies, set boundaries on unsolicited advice and discover what your body needs that you’re able to give it.
Meditating, mindfulness, body awareness techniques, low-impact workouts, better diet and so many other things can give you back just a sliver of your autonomy. Celebrate the little wins and take back your mental sanity. It will give you so much more confidence when talking to medical professionals, friends and even family.
Things like this won’t fix you, but it could help you learn to be confident in your experiences and unlearn other people’s ableist tendencies or viewpoints of you and your abilities. 🫶🏼✨
Remember, what works for you may not work for your neighbor and that’s HUMAN!
Love you all so much!! Be kind to yourselves!
Alt text: a fair skinned woman with short brown curly hair sits on a leg-press machine while talking to a man with dark skin and long brown twist braids in. The man has two Nubbs for arms and even has a tattoo on his bicep that says “NUBB”. Captions are on screen for accessibility.
