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No Diana, I’m not going to get better, so stop asking me if I’m better yet.
this is definitely not a new take, but the part of “chronic illness” that abled people can’t conceive of is the “chronic” part.
everyone’s been tired before. everyone’s been in pain before. everyone’s been nauseous before.
so when someone says that they have chronic pain or chronic fatigue or any other chronic illness symptom, an abled person is using the completely wrong frame of reference. they’re going “oh. it’s like that sports injury I had, but it lasts longer” without being able to wrap their heads around the fact that… it’s both nothing like that and also possibly lasts forever