She has been through hell. So believe me when I say, fear her when she looks into a fire and smiles. - E. Corona.

Privilege isn't the presence of perks and benefits. It's the absence of obstacles and barriers. That's a lot harder to notice. If someone has a hard time recognizing privileges, they should try focusing on what they don't have to go through. Let that fuel empathy and action. Let that change the world.

Trauma occurs when wounds are unable to heal because someone's entire identity is centered around the fear and anxiety they experienced. They have simply forgotten who they are outside of trauma. This obscurity is terrifying.

Since birth, we have been defined by numbers: inches, feet, pounds, grades, percentages... it doesn't stop. Especially for Chronically Ill and Disabled persons. Now, we are also defined by lab results, temperatures, milliliters, milligrams, grams, beats per minute, etc.

A photo of Oprah holding a microphone and pointing at her audience. Captioned above her photo is, "If Oprah was my doctor..." surrounding Oprah below this caption are more captions that read, "you get fatigue"..."You get migraines"... "You get brain fog..." ..."You get fevers" ..." You get rashes...." Captioned below all of these other captions are the words, "and you get chronic pain!"

Photo of SpongeBob captioned as "Me" struggling with a clock that's captioned as "My chronic illness."

Further below is a photo of Squidward captioned as "My doctors" standing next to an open closet of multiple other clocks. These clocks are captioned as "New unexplainable symptoms."

Photo of Spider-Man being pinned down by

Doctor Octopuses robotic tentacles. Beneath this photo is the caption that says, "My lab results." Further below is a photo of Doctor Octopus with the caption that reads, "My doctor: So, you were telling the truth..."

"When yet another thing goes wrong with my life," written above a photo of a man wearing a plaid button-down shirt with a tie typing on a computer. Sitting behind this man is a fire extinguisher that's on fire. Below this photo is the caption, "I'll just put this over here with the rest of he fire."

Photo of Squidward with a shaky, squinting, left eye. Written above Squidward's photo are words that say, "When you're trying to have a positive attitude but, life keeps testing you."

Painting of a woman chained to a sacrificial pillar in front of a crowd of people and the church. Next to this woman ate the words, "Cranking my heating pad as high as it'll go and wondering why it's still not hot enough."

Written above a photo of a deformed Hagrid, "When you're reading the side effects list of your medication, and it sounds exactly like the reason why you're taking the medication."