chronicillnesscat: [Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “you got to lay around all day?! OMG you’re so lucky!!”] There is nothing fun about lying around in terrible pain. There is nothing fun about a RA flair. You healthy people think of lying around as what you do on a rainy sunday. Well this is a whole other ballgame. Its not fun and I am anything but lucky. Same goes for fibromyalgia - most people think I live a life of leisure, that I’m trying to con everyone into thinking I’m feeling worse than I actually am. Well, you know what? You get to be the expert on you. Who knows better than you how you feel, how you think, what you’re able to accomplish. It follows that I get to be the expert on me. So could everyone just stop pretending they know better than I do when it comes to my illnesses? 

chronicillnesscat:

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “you got to lay around all day?! OMG you’re so lucky!!”]

There is nothing fun about lying around in terrible pain. There is nothing fun about a RA flair. You healthy people think of lying around as what you do on a rainy sunday. Well this is a whole other ballgame. Its not fun and I am anything but lucky.

Same goes for fibromyalgia - most people think I live a life of leisure, that I’m trying to con everyone into thinking I’m feeling worse than I actually am. Well, you know what? You get to be the expert on you. Who knows better than you how you feel, how you think, what you’re able to accomplish. It follows that I get to be the expert on me. So could everyone just stop pretending they know better than I do when it comes to my illnesses? 

chronicillnesscat: [Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Start to feel a little better. Can’t enjoy it because you know it’s temporary.”] I’m experiencing less pain and more energy and all I can think about is how it’s not going to last. This one’s mine.

chronicillnesscat:

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Start to feel a little better. Can’t enjoy it because you know it’s temporary.”]

I’m experiencing less pain and more energy and all I can think about is how it’s not going to last.

This one’s mine.

chronicillnesscat: [Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat with blue eyes. Text reads: Top “But you don’t look sick” Bottom “And you don’t look like an idiot, what’s your point?”]

chronicillnesscat:

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat with blue eyes. Text reads: Top “But you don’t look sick” Bottom “And you don’t look like an idiot, what’s your point?”]

chronicillnesscat: [Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat with blue eyes. Text reads: “‘You have bipolar disorder?’” Bottom line: “‘But you don’t look sick…’”] How I look isn’t relevant. How I feel is. 

chronicillnesscat:

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat with blue eyes. Text reads: “‘You have bipolar disorder?’” Bottom line: “‘But you don’t look sick…’”]

How I look isn’t relevant. How I feel is. 

chronicillnesscat: [Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat with blue eyes. Text reads: TOP: “Chronic depression and anxiety.” BOTTOM: “You should get out more, it’ll make you feel better” ]  Yeah, I’ll just overcome my crippling anxiety and agoraphobia right away - I can’t imagine why I didn’t think of that myself.

chronicillnesscat:

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat with blue eyes. Text reads: TOP: “Chronic depression and anxiety.” BOTTOM: “You should get out more, it’ll make you feel better” ] 

Yeah, I’ll just overcome my crippling anxiety and agoraphobia right away - I can’t imagine why I didn’t think of that myself.