Valerie RoneyMar 21, 2025
Ermahgawd!!!
I found the OG article that started "spoon theory." I hadn't seen this in years. Am so jazzed.
https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/
#spoonies #spoonTheory #spoonie #spoons #butYouDontLookSick
The Spoon Theory written by Christine Miserandino - But You Dont Look Sick? support for those with invisible illness or chronic illness

Please take the time to read Christine Miserandino’s personal story and analogy of what it is like to live with sickness or disability. Click HERE to download “The Spoon Theory” in PDF format. The Spoon Theory by Christine Miserandino www.butyoudontlooksick.com My best friend and I were in the diner, talking. As usual, it was very …

But You Dont Look Sick? support for those with invisible illness or chronic illness
AyaMar 19, 2025
“You might be a hypochondriac!” 😑
“That isn’t pain, it’s just sensation!” 🙃
“We won’t treat your pain, or we might not know what’s causing it!” 🤡

Medical professionals, I’m begging you, make it make sense.

Luna, like so many of us, has dealt with every variation of medical gaslighting. Doctors dismissing pain, questioning reality, and prescribing a whole lot of nothing—while ordering tests that don’t even make sense. If you’ve ever had a doctor make you question your own body, you are not alone.

💬 Drop the worst medical advice you’ve ever received in the comments.
(Or just scream in solidarity, that’s valid too.) 🫠🫂

#MedicalGaslighting #ChronicIllness #DisabilityAwareness #PainIsReal #ButYouDontLookSick #HealthcareStruggles #MedicalTrauma #HealthCareSystem #TrustPatients #ADayInTheLuna
Carrie 🌏 My Several WorldsOct 15, 2023

Today is the start of #InvisibleDisabilitiesWeek aka #IWD!

"I need to be vocal about my disability because I don't look sick. You will never see me on days I do look sick because those are the days I don't leave my bed." Carrie, MySeveralWorlds.com

#IDW23 #CareInMotion #ButYouDontLookSick #axSpA #MyDisabledLife #DisabilityInclusion #MySeveralWorlds #Fibromyalgia #DisabilityAwareness #MECFS #InvisibleDisability

Show threadTom KindlonSep 21, 2023

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"When someone leaves a note on a car or makes a comment, they are making rash judgments about someone they’ve never even met and enacting a gross injustice on someone who faces daily obstacles already.

This needs to stop."

#Butyoudontlooksick #Invisibledisability #Spoonie
@chronicillness @spoonies @disability @mecfs @longcovid

Tom KindlonSep 20, 2023

🧵
"To Anyone Afraid to Get a Disabled Placard Because You're Worried About Judgment"

https://themighty.com/topic/disability/what-to-know-about-getting-a-disability-parking-placard/

@chronicillness
@spoonies
@disability
@mecfs
@longcovid

#chronicillness
#ChronicPain
#Spoonielife
#hiddenillness
#invisibleillness
#Spoonies
#Spoonie
#ChronicallyIll
#ChronicIllnessMemes
#Butyoudontlooksick
#Invisibledisability
#Disabled
#Disability
#Hiddendisability
#Hiddendisabilities

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To Anyone Afraid to Get a Disabled Placard Because You're Worried About Judgment

"Don't let anyone diminish the choices you have to make to achieve a higher quality of life."

The Mighty
SmudgiesMomApr 25, 2023
#ButYouDontLookSick
Carrie 🌏 My Several WorldsApr 1, 2023

Gearing up for April and some HUGE announcements.

I might be a legit world-class weakling because of disabling arthritis, but I promise I am one of the toughest chicks you'll ever know!

🏷
#LifeWithPain #ItsNotJustArthritis
#ChronicIllness #ChronicPain
#axSpA #Spoonie #SickSelfie
#Spondyloarthritis #MyChronicLife #AnkylosingSpondylitis #StillSick
#Fibromyalgia #MECFS
#InvisibleIllness #disability
#ButYouDontLookSick #arthritis #DisabilityAwareness #ChronicallyFabulous

Jo / Jojo Nov 30, 2022

Not Big Sad. But Big Void. And Big Tired.

Which is still not an open invitation to dispense your faux medical advice

#JustGoForWalks #ChinUp #SnapOutOfIt #ButYouDontLookSick

Carrie 🌏 My Several WorldsNov 27, 2022

My petition for med coverage: DENIED AGAIN.
Taiwan supports keeping pts disabled instead of helping w. access to meds for #axSpA & #AnkylosingSpondylitis.

15 years of disabling medical history doesn't count! My story is on MySeveralWorlds.com.
I'll leave it here: My knees in 2022

💙Arthritis affects 1 in 5
💙60% of arthritis patients are 18-64
💙Arthritis steals your life. I lost mine at age 34. I'm 48.
💙Arthritis is the #1 cause of disability

#ButYouDontLookSick
#MedMastodon #RheumMastodon

Carrie 🌏 My Several WorldsNov 19, 2022

Had a little stroll today with my @neowalksticks Gatsby. 'She so purty and dependable!'

Walking *sometimes* sorts my #axSpA pain out, but it also aggravates my #Fibromyalgia and #MECFS so it's always a fine line. I kept it short and I'm hoping it helps, not hinders.

#MedMastodon #DisabilityMastodon
#ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #NEISvoid
#Spoonie #AnkylosingSpondylitis
#InvisibleIllness #ThisIsFibro 
#ButYouDontLookSick #disability
#arthritis #SelfCare #MyChronicLife #SickSelfie