HeyJaredYou Don’t Look Sick, Ang
Honest stories about chronic illness, resilience, motherhood, and rebuilding life — with grit, grace, and a little champagne.
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I’m Not Just Cleaning My House. I’m Taking It Back. (opens the original)
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I’m Not Just Cleaning My House. I’m Taking It Back.There are bins everywhere.Bins of toys. Bins of clothes. Bins of things to sell. Bins of things to donate. Bins of things I swear I have never seen before in my life, despite apparently owning them for the last decade.And then there is my personal favorite category:The bin I don’t know what the hell to … Read more
It Took 45 Years for Someone to Listen (opens the original)
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I was 45 years old when someone finally listened to me about my brain. I’d spent my whole life feeling like my thoughts were scattered in pieces. It took seeing ADHD in my own kids to wonder whether there was a name for what I’d been living with since childhood.I thought ADHD would be obvious if I had it. I thought somebody would have noticed when I was little. But what if people did notice the symptoms and just called them something else?I was scattered. I could be impulsive. I had a million th
The Weird Grief of Getting Better (opens the original)
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Here’s something nobody really warns you about:Getting better can make you sad.Not because you don’t want to get better.Of course you do.You want the strength back. The independence. The ability to walk into a store without immediately looking for somewhere to sit. You want to stop measuring every single thing by how much energy it’s going to cost you.You want your life back.But then little pieces of it start coming back, and somehow that can hurt too.Because progress has a way of reminding you
I Don’t Want to Be Inspirational All the Time (opens the original)
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There’s something strange that happens when you live through something hard and survive it.People start calling you inspiring.And I know they mean it kindly. I do. When someone tells me they’re proud of me, or that watching me keep going gives them hope, that means something to me.But sometimes?I don’t want to be inspirational.Sometimes I just want to b… <a href="https://youdontlooksickang.substack.com/p/i-dont-want-to-be-i
The Day I Stopped Waiting (opens the original)
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For a long time, I lived like my real life was waiting for me on the other side of Multiple Sclerosis.I didn’t realize I was doing it.I just kept telling myself the same story.Maybe after my next infusion.Maybe after this flare settles down.Maybe after physical therapy.Maybe after I finally feel like myself again.I wasn’t just hoping to feel better.
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