you know...

[seventhe]

Sometimes there are days where I wonder how people like, you know, live? I worked my normal day today, then went to the grocery, then came home and crashed for a bit, then got up and made a soup. And I am so fucking tired and my legs hurt and my back hurts and my brain is ready to shut off and I can't get up from this couch and I am dead and like. There are people who can do this AND go to the gym AND do laundry AND dishes after they cook AND do something brainful like pay bills or some other reasonable thing and ?????? How do people do this? What is the terrible secret? Have you all sold children or kidneys to some arcane god/dess to get these powers and if so, where do I sign up


It's hard sometimes for me to remember I have a chronic illness. Mainly because I don't want to have a chronic illness.


the soup is really fucking good tho

Comments

[auronlu]

As always, I am sitting here in my work-at-home-sometimes cubicle with my own chronic illness and being utterly floored at you for what you do.

(I don't recommend my approach by the way; I'm constantly wracked with feelings of inadequacy for not being "successful" according to any standard metric.)

You beat that chronic illness magnificently. But it's really, really, really not easy, and you and I both don't deserve to be dealing with this shit.

[goldmare]

Those people? They are fewer than you think. I am firmly committed to this idea. Whenever I meet a "normal" person who can be this productive on a regular basis, I usually regard them with extreme suspicion and stay the fuck away, because that shit is not normal.

Maybe they have sold their souls to an ancient one. (That actually reminds me of a vampire LARP chron I was in where the metaplot was infernalists, and by the end of the year at least half of us had sold our souls and, due to the nature of the deals, had no idea that lots of other people had too.) Anyway, it might explain the fucked-up-ness of the world.

Also your job is hella stressful and I don't know how many times harder than other people's jobs, so there's that too. If you can come home and do something other than veg out and sleep, you're doing incredibly well.

[novel_machinist]

From my understanding they also lack chronic and compounding illnesses. I understand how hard it is to say "I can't do this" and my conditions are not as disabling as yours.

:) this weekend we can have a nice old fashioned girly sleepover. I'll bring foot scrub.

[whitemage]

It's hard sometimes for me to remember I have a chronic illness. Mainly because I don't want to have a chronic illness.

Yes.

Yeah, I went out and had /fun/ yesterday but the /fun/ was so exhausting I had to lay down.

[lassarina]

They started the day without status conditions. You start yours with Sap. It is reasonable that you get to the end of the day and are lower HP than they are :( Shit, I don't have a chronic illness and *I* don't manage this a lot of days, I don't even have a good excuse/reason.

[yukie]

Chronic conditions are a fuck-damn buzzkill is what D:

Like even with amazing meds i still have a finite energy supply and i haaaaaate ittttttttt. some nights i do not have the steam to cook. that doesn't mean i fail. i need to remind myself of this a lot.

(also what kind of soup was it i am le curious <3)

[albijuli]

I wonder the same thing.