it’s okay to do things that make your symptoms worse (as long as you’ll stay safe)

every once in a while you need to eat something yummy. or go on a walk. or a trip to the zoo. take a hot shower. cry your eyes out. dance. listen to music. draw for way to long. write. laugh. sit in a cafe with a friend. paint your nails. dye your hair. go on a run. pet a cat

sometimes you need to do things that are cathartic or make yourself feel alive. sometimes you need the reminder of why you’re fighting so hard to stay alive

this is your reminder that just because it makes your symptoms worse, it isn’t always the wrong thing to do. there can be value in these actions

July is Disability Pride Month

Let’s celebrate by keeping disabled people ALIVE and SAFE.

Want to know how you can help?

WEAR A MASK. 

(FFP2/3 or N95 give best protection, especially the ones that fasten behind your head)

Getting diagnosed with a chronic condition is easy! Just follow these steps:

Have symptoms

Schedule doctor visit

Wait indefinitely

Repeat

[Img id: bugs bunny meme. To the left the text reads, "I wish all people with chronic digestive problems a very plesant evening".]

Happy disability pride month everybody!! ❤️💛🤍💙💚

To those who might not know Jere has been very vocal about his experience with IBD more specifically ulcerative colitis that resulted in him getting a lifesaving surgery at 19 leaving him with his two surgical scars on his stomach. Here's a few links to articles if you want to know more (x) (x). I'd also like to link the podcast interview where I first learned about his experience (starts at 11.10) since it touched me hearing him open up about for it for what sounded like the first time after he himself brought it up in such an authentic manner.

Since learning about his disability around april-may I have felt an even stronger connection to him. Although I do not have IBD myself, I just find his honestly, vulnerability and authenticity so inspiring that I could not help not to love him and and so the real brainrot began

For this reason drawing him for disability pride has been on my mind almost as long so I hope you enjoy the outcome - stay strong everybody and you are amazing just as you are, with or without disabilities

With regards, your fellow autistic Kääryle (Käärijä fan) 💚

...I wonder how much of the "Real Men Don't Eat Vegetables" malarkey is driven by undiagnosed Crohn's disease/IBD.

Bitches really know they can’t eat something, eat it anyway, then get surprised when they get sick. It’s me, I’m bitches.

I love when I’m having Symptoms™️ and I backtrack what I have/haven’t done and I’m like

It's so funny when you're chronically ill and ppl tell you to "get well soon" and you're just like... Thanks, I won't.

Disability Pride shout out to everyone whose disability...

gets in the way of their sex life

gets in the way of expressing and/or understanding their sexuality

gets in the way of their romantic life

gets in the way of intimate relationships

gets in the way of exploring any/all of the above

Can you talk about inclusion body disease in snakes? I've heard of it here and there and tried looking into it but would really appreciate an experts info dump on it.

I have a nice big post on it here!

IBD problems