I Don't Have A Scooter Attachment Or Any Motor Attachment For My Wheelchair, But I Sometimes Drive Fast

In case anyone needs to hear this, the average person does not wake up every day in pain. The average person does not feel like they have the flu every day of their life, and if you, like me, feel sick 24/7 you in fact have a chronic illness. If your doctor is dismissive of your suffering, keep finding doctors and pushing for tests until you get something. It's exhausting and expensive but you deserve whatever comfort is possible for you and your illness

It's jarring to realize your baseline is most people's "sick" but that just makes it all the more important for you to rest and be gentle with your body. You aren't being lazy, you aren't faking your pain. Your disability is real, and you deserve to take care of yourself and make things easier for yourself regardless if you feel like you've "earned" it or if you think it "isn't that bad."

If you are struggling, I see you and I care you so much

I'm sorry, I'm trying

you will get up & you will make that to do list & you will be realistic about your limits & you will take it easy but steady & you will eat good food & you will get things done & you will move your body & you will do things that make you happy & you will limit your screen time & you will be the thing that saves you

Since this, the pain has gotten worse to the point that I have between 5 and 10 pain free days a month and I finally saw a neurologist for it. And it's not migraines. It's atypical facial pain and I'm finally starting treatment🥳

Can't believe it took me 8 years to realise that the random pain I get in half of my face for a couple of days to a week every other month is a migraine...

I always thought it didn't matter bc it's not every day like my fibro pain

When I go to the doctor, they hand me paperwork with a chart to locate my pain. I can’t pinpoint it. I “X” my whole body. My entire life.

— Glenis Redmond, from "I Stay Sick," The Listening Skin

@ august please be a little gentle with me I’m so tired

Just screenshot this and sent it to my brother in law, who's an electrician:D

i unironically believe electricity is the closest thing we have to magic in this universe. consider:

it's basically what human "souls" are made of (your consciousness is the result of miniscule amounts of electric charge jumping between neurons in your brain)

when handled incorrectly or encountered in the wild, it is a deadly force that can kill you in at least half a dozen different ways

when treated respectfully and channeled into the proper conduits, it is a power source that forms the backbone of modern society

if you engrave the right sigils into a rock and channel electricity into it, you can make the rock think

there is a dedicated caste of mages (electrical engineers) tasked with researching it in ivory towers

whatever the fuck Galvani was doing with those frog legs

look at this and just try to tell me it isn't a kind of summoning circle

Sleep doesn’t help if it’s your soul that is tired

(via roberta-ninety-three)

“I don’t want to be a burden” you’re more like a relief, a gift, a blessing actually

if you ever feel like you're not "smart enough" for STEM or didn't do that great in school, i just wanna let you know that i failed algebra 2 THREE TIMES and dropped my high school physics class the FIRST WEEK...

and NASA chose me to student research with them.

so what i'm trying to say is that STEM is for EVERYONE. if school wasn't the easiest for you and you're not the strongest in math, don't let that stop you from pursuing STEM. working hard for goals makes you a great scientist.

screw that stereotype that all STEM majors are geniuses who were building robots and knew how to work a microscope at 3 years old.

STEM IS FOR EVERYONE! BECOME A FREAKING SCIENTIST! YOU CAN DO IT!