Inside the Little Plastic Castle

Thankfully I've had a good summer free of nondisabled people annoying me about my health. These folks provide insight and great comebacks.

Hank Green, one progenitor of the internet-based social movement, Don't Forget to be Awesome, has ulcerative colitis. Just like the rest of us with chronic illnesses, he's received years of unsolicited advice for better living without pain: more gluten, less gluten, fish oil, motor oil. In this captioned video, he identifies how and why those intrusive suggestions make him feel like his illness is his own fault.


From genericlottery, a comic strip exposing a common workplace issue:
Central comic strip character is youngish white woman sitting in front of a computer, with a coffee cup.
panel 1 Older woman, labelled family friend, leans in to her and says "So how's your [chronic illness] treating you? Got that all under control?"
panel 2 Young woman gazes up with glassy eyes and rigid smile.
panel 3 Maintaining smile, she swings her cup out into the air ...
panel 4 Smashes it into pieces against the side of her desk ...
panel 5 Smiles even wider and says, "Of course I do!"
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From disabilityhealth
In carefully set type these words to live by:
"I don't think you look disabled"
I don't think you look qualified to make that assessment.

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