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Jul. 28th, 2019 01:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
justlyssaWay back in the day, I had a LiveJournal account that doubled as my "author blog" and where I'd share more personal stuff. When I finally got my author website set up with WordPress CMS, it made sense for my author blog to go there and be integrated with my website, but the more I used that setup, the more I thought it would be inappropriate for me to share personal stuff there, so I phased that out. I missed having a place to blog about more personal subjects, though. That's why I decided to give it another go here.
My old posts are still saved on that LiveJournal account as private. I opted not to reactivate the LiveJournal due to changes to the platform over the years that make me leery of using/supporting it. That's why I decided to start over fresh here. Maybe at some point, depending on how things go, I'll import those entries here. There's a gap of about five years between my last post there and this one, but it may be interesting to people. We'll see.
For the most part, I want to use this blog to talk about my life with chronic illness and disability. I've resisted the label of disability for many years (even going back as far as those old entries from 2014, when I talk about my feelings toward the label in... a really internalized ableist fashion *facepalm*), but I've realized this year that resisting it has only been hurting myself in the long run. Additionally, as I've been in a severe flare the past couple months and have been spending quite a bit of time in bed, I've been watching YouTube videos from disabled activists such as Jessica Kellgren-Fozard, who helped me learn more about my own disabilities and chronic illnesses, and I realized that being so tight-lipped about my disabilities is also cutting off a potential resource for others who may be in similar circumstances to me. So I've decided I want to open up. I hope you'll come along for the ride!
My old posts are still saved on that LiveJournal account as private. I opted not to reactivate the LiveJournal due to changes to the platform over the years that make me leery of using/supporting it. That's why I decided to start over fresh here. Maybe at some point, depending on how things go, I'll import those entries here. There's a gap of about five years between my last post there and this one, but it may be interesting to people. We'll see.
For the most part, I want to use this blog to talk about my life with chronic illness and disability. I've resisted the label of disability for many years (even going back as far as those old entries from 2014, when I talk about my feelings toward the label in... a really internalized ableist fashion *facepalm*), but I've realized this year that resisting it has only been hurting myself in the long run. Additionally, as I've been in a severe flare the past couple months and have been spending quite a bit of time in bed, I've been watching YouTube videos from disabled activists such as Jessica Kellgren-Fozard, who helped me learn more about my own disabilities and chronic illnesses, and I realized that being so tight-lipped about my disabilities is also cutting off a potential resource for others who may be in similar circumstances to me. So I've decided I want to open up. I hope you'll come along for the ride!
