Trading Socks For Skates
Tag: disability
Food, Triggers, Healthy Thoughts, and Well-Meaning Abelists
CW: eating disorders, abelism, fat-phobia I was a tiny kid. This is an important fact for you to know. I was born early and underweight. I was sick a lot as a child, and allergic to practically everything. By the time I was a pre-teen my parents were divorced…
Ehlers-Danlos In Fiction
I never meant to drag my illness into fiction. In fact, it’s been something I’ve intentionally avoided. Ehlers-Danlos is a weird genetic mutation. The things it does would make most editors frustrated. It turns out: it does frustrate editors. A lot. Without planning on it I accidentally gave the Lee…
From Late Night Twitter… Writing the Disabled
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