Scarless Scars
“… You know the thing that is the hardest to explain, it is how utterly hopeless, helpless and defeated I felt. …
… The most frustrating of all is how none of it showed: the pain: the exhaustion, the struggle, how none, absolutely none of it, showed. …”
- Snippets from Personal Diary (2021)
Safe Space
“When non-able bodied people do find a space to speak, it is often never safe enough.”
Trigering World
Triggering world is about how seemingly small things -things that are considered normal, a part of daily life- can potentially be deeply triggering for non-able bodied people.
My chronic illness is my personality, get over it.
The title is exactly what the writing is about.
The Gaslighter
This is the last conversation in between an ex-friend and myself. An example of what gaslighting looks like by people who are close to a chronically ill person.
The ethical dilemma
The ethical dilemma I faced in the very beginning of the making of Normal Bodies.
