You’ve spent your whole life being the translator. Of emotions. Of chaos. Of your own damn needs. You don’t have to translate here. We speak burnout, brain fog, and “I’m fine” fluently.

Me: I have 14 diagnoses. Also me: Googles “why am I tired?”

🆘💉👎🫣 MyChart said “ur not like other girls” and meant it.

I am experiencing a symptom that defies logic, reason, and the laws of science. Classic Thursday.

I was told to ‘just lose weight.’ Unfortunately, my dislocated joints remain unimpressed.

Doctor: “It’s probably just stress.” Me: Oh perfect, let me go ahead and unstress all my organs real quick.

My chronic illness symptoms waking up every morning: 🏃💨 And today we’re gonna shake things up.

Every day we stray further from God’s light, and closer to a $9.99 subscription for basic human rights.

Why do doctors say “let’s run some tests” like they aren’t about to bankrupt me for a diagnosis they won’t even believe?

Doctor: “We ran every test, and everything looks normal.” Me: “Okay, but I’m actively dying, so what’s plan B?”

ADHD tax is real. 💰 Lost items I had to replace: $400+ ⏳ Late fees I forgot about: $150+ 🛒 Things I didn’t need but hyperfocused on: Priceless.

Me, calling the doctor’s office: 🔹 Anxiety at 100%. 🔹 Praying I don’t get dismissed. 🔹 Forgetting everything the second they answer.

My body treats drinking water like an allergy. Love that for me.

Autistic communication be like: 👀 Avoiding eye contact so I can hear better. 📅 Mentally scripting my response. 💬 Then info-dumping for 30 minutes. 💬 What’s your most autistic ‘oops’ moment?

I have made an enemy of my own body. And unfortunately, it is winning.

Me at 18: “I have chronic pain.” 👩‍⚕️ Doctor: “It’s just stress.” 👀 Me at 30…now diagnosed with six rare conditions: “…so about that stress.”

Doctor: Your labs look fine. Me: Cool, but I just blinked too hard and my shoulder dislocated. Doctor: Have you tried thinking more positive thoughts?

Me, trying to explain my symptoms: 🎭 “It feels like knives, but also burning, and sometimes like I’m being electrocuted?” 💬 What’s the most ridiculous way you’ve described pain?

💬 Tell me the worst medical gaslighting line you’ve ever heard.

ADHD paralysis is wild because: 🧠 Your brain is SCREAMING at you to do the thing. 😵‍💫 Your body refuses to move. 🚨 And now you’re just… vibing in stress. 💬 Who else has stared at a task for 3 hours and done nothing?

Going to the doctor as a chronically ill person is like: 🔹 Too healthy for treatment. 🔹 Too sick to function. 🔹 Somehow both at the same time. 💬 What’s your worst ‘we don’t know what to do with you’ moment?

Signs you grew up medically gaslit: 🚩 🔹 Apologizing for needing care. 🔹 Assuming pain is normal. 🔹 Over-explaining symptoms so they believe you. 💬 Which one gave you flashbacks?

"Why the hell am I in a flare?" I ask...after doing something I knew would put me into a flare.

The anxious, the overthinkers, the ones who rehearse conversations in the shower… and the ones who don’t text back for three business days. This is your place.

Autistic communication be like: 👀 Avoiding eye contact so I can hear better. 📅 Mentally scripting my response. 💬 Then info-dumping for 30 minutes.

Me, rewording a text 16 times so it sounds normal: 😌

Capitalism is wild because my body has 47 issues but I can only afford to fix, like, two.

Me, trying to explain my symptoms: 🎭 “It feels like knives, but also burning, and sometimes like I’m being electrocuted?”

If you're not frolicking menacingly with me, you're frolicking menacingly against me.

If you’ve ever apologized for existing in a doctor’s office, you may be entitled to financial compensation. 🤡

Going to the doctor as a chronically ill person is like: 🔹 Too healthy for treatment. 🔹 Too sick to function. 🔹 Somehow both at the same time.

They said ‘be yourself.’ Now I have to apologize.

How are you?’ ‘Good!’ – I say, as I dissociate so hard I briefly enter another dimension.

Take a moment to be grateful for everything you have. Okay, you can go back to being angry and bitter.

Honestly, my medical chart has more lore than the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe.

If this post appeared on your feed, I regret to inform you that we are now in a legally binding parasocial relationship.

A cute tag - I know we can't do some of these things, but it's sweet.

Who was the first person to look at wheat and say “I’m gonna turn this into bread”… and why were they so ambitious??

I did not “go with the flow.” I, in fact, drowned.

Because I’m nosy: what’s the most irrational thing you were scared of as a kid?

It’s snowing, I’m in bed with pizza, and honestly? Life is good.

Is this a normal symptom, or is my body running an unscheduled update?” Me, every single day.

Doctor: “You need to reduce stress.” Me: “Cool, I’ll stop interacting with the medical system then.”

Me, trying to explain my symptoms: 🎭 “It feels like knives, but also burning, and sometimes like I’m being electrocuted?” 💬 What’s the most ridiculous way you’ve described pain?

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

I just realized my babies will be teenagers this summer, and I am simply not prepared for this timeline. No, because what do you mean I’m about to be the mother of teens?! 😭