So as I stare down the barrel of a consultative exam for Social Security disability, I have not been able to stop thinking about ( what disability even is. [cw: probably internalized ableism, idek] )

Somewhere I picked up the meme that the 2016 election, Facebook and fake news are the crisis points directing us to implement ethics in computer science, just as the atomic bomb was a crisis point for physics and ethics in psychiatry have ...somewhat advanced since phrenology ( Read more... )

( Lists of Some Stuff I have Learnt About Myself Over The Past Two Years [cw: my personality??? Disability/dr/pain etc] )

We're graduating from high school and I don't know who I am or how to be, without anyone to fix, to help, to make better ( Read more... )

HERE I AM IN CALIFORNIA.

So excite, very anxiety, much broke; job offer waits for background check to strike.

too much to write about so here are some links to things I made:

GOFUNDME --
true story, ok:
I did not want to have to do this but I am completely effing broke and my peeps were all like "you can ask for money it's ok" and I was like ( Read more... )

chronically ill, crazy and going to the caucus!4:30PM: ok, so my sister volunteered to shepherd me @the caucus. figure i'll set an alarm for 6, put some eye drops in so i can stand the florescents, take a muscle relaxer, and pretend i can do this ( Read more... )

Fear ( Read more... )

I got a job.

Not only that, but I'm working in a mental health field as a peer.

More details to come in a locked entry, but I just wanted everyone to know... after 7 years out of the workforce, a new chronic illness, four surgeries, living with my parents for 5 years, being declared disabled by SSA---

I'm working. I get up, I go to the center ( Read more... )