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Throughout all this Serotinous pinecones, were my analogy of faith. But now they are my analogy of life. You will go through crap, and that may send you rocketing in a new direction. Pain is not a blessing, but is a part of life. Take care of what you are, and don't always accept what you are given.
February 13, 2026 at 5:36 AM
I went through, and still am to an extend, waves of suffering and healing with my EDS. I fell into a state where I clung to religion even more. But then I slowly woke up. I tore myself to pieces, trying to figure out what was true. I have since left religion, and have found a lot of healing.
February 13, 2026 at 5:36 AM
I then started working at a school. Still stuck in the religious echochamber. After about nine months of working, I turned nineteen and got married, to my partner. Shortly later I was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, and became bedridden.
February 13, 2026 at 5:36 AM
At that I dove into religion believing that my life was a gift, and that I had a second chance (My experience was scary but I now know that I was manipulated in a weak place). With the outbreak of covid-19, (age 16) and quarantine came, I dove into finishing high school early.
February 13, 2026 at 5:36 AM
What I mean is, I can describe my life as bursts, New me(s) forming and dying in catastrophic conditions. My life was meaningless to me until I was 13 when I developed an autoimmune disease, there was a point where I was told that I might not make it, small chance as it was.
February 13, 2026 at 5:36 AM
struggling to fix what you call someone is bad, I am saying to try, and do your best.
Names have power, and can be healing or harmful, so use them wisely.
February 8, 2026 at 11:01 PM
excuse that they had known me so long so they get to use the nickname, this was also an excuse someone made to call me an invalid, when I sprained my ankle.
I on the other hand know that it takes time to rewire your brain to refer to someone as something different. I struggle too, I am not saying
February 8, 2026 at 11:01 PM
this person, who I was constantly judgmental and competitive with, so quickly respected my wishes, when there were people who knew me equally as long or less, that wouldn’t even take the time to listen. Even after I got married, when my partner only called me by my preferred name, people used the
February 8, 2026 at 11:01 PM
even by my family. So when I was in high school, I surrounded mostly with new people, introduced myself as the name I preferred. I gave up on the people who knew me ‘Forever‘, except, there was one person who knew me since I was in kindergarten and they immediately self-corrected. I wondered why
February 8, 2026 at 11:01 PM