30 Things About My Invisible Illness You May Not Know

A friend recently posted this in their journal. I've spent the last hour trying to get to sleep but finding myself going through a range of thinking about my own responses to this and how the questions resonated with me, and questioning whether I'm sick enough to be able to legitimately respond to this. I got myself pretty worked up being worried about how I'm just whining and not really ill and how if I did this it would be disrespectful of my friends with very serious chronic conditions which clearly have a much more significant effect on their lives than mine. And then I decided, if I'm going to spend hours losing sleep thinking over it, it's probably important enough to write down, and if anybody has a problem with it, they can talk to me and explain why and I can post an apology or something.

So, here goes: 30 Things About My Invisible Illness You May Not Know

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