I should have made the four posts above public and used hashtags, but I brained badly.

Scroll up 🧵 for polls about three autoimmune disorders and neurodiversity and/or gender stuff.

Poll 1: EDS
Poll 2: MCAS
Poll 3: Psoriatic arthritis
Poll 4: other autoimmune in the same cluster

#MCAS #hEDS #EhlerDanlos #PsoriaticArthritis #ADHD #Autism #nonbinary

If you have autism and bipolar disorder, you're a poor kid with two disabilities.
But if you also have high intellectual abilities, gifted, let's say, then you're a damn arrogant jerk.
What the hell is wrong with those people?
It turns out that anywhere, physical or virtual, where you try to mention that you have a very high IQ but at the same time have a lot of trouble navigating the human world, you will be stoned by an angry mob of ignorant people who overvalue intelligence (and hate and fear it).
Yes, I'm a damn genius at many things, as I'm also level 2 autistic and have a pretty severe mixed bipolar disorder. And all of that with real, official diagnoses that required years of therapy, psychiatrists, hundreds of tests and some hospitalizations in psychiatric hospitals.
I have a long list of achievements and professions and an equally long list of failures, illness, and suicide attempts.
I'm now trying to compile information and studies on comorbidities or overlaps of these three things, and if anyone finds anything, please share the link.
Overlap or multiple exceptionality of autism+bipolar+giftedness. I want to delve deeper into this to understand it more thoroughly and refine my personal therapies.
I also have an overlap of autoimmune diseases and metabolic disorders. In other words, it's not an easy matter.
I have been practicing traditional Chinese medicine for almost 40 years and have practiced various martial arts and therapeutic techniques for almost the same amount of time. That's how I've stayed fairly stable for the last 15 years, without psychiatric medication and with very little for thyroid and allergies.
In order to extrapolate the theoretical framework to natural medicine and the methods I use, I need to study much more.

And obviously share all of that with people who have similar problems.

#autism #actuallyautistic #bipolardisorder #giftedness #autoimmunedisease #neurology #hashimoto #psoriasis #psoriaticarthritis #inflammatoryboweldisease #diabetes #hashimotoencephalitis

Yesterday I went swimming (and to the sauna of course) with my best friend, and then I had a seminar with our second semester students at Uni. So when I got home I was totally washed up. I managed to make these however: a new tea-stocking, as we call it in Swedish, and a new filter for the coffee pot from linen and cotton scraps.
Today I 'm hurting a lot, and my eyes are acting up from a combination of hazel pollen and the smog currently over Gothenburg. So this far I have only managed to have breakfast, make the bed, and drink tea.
#chronicillness #psoriaticarthritis #allergies
Otezla - SNL

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More work. Preparing my opposition on a dissertation about homespun fabric in medieval Iceland.
I am at most fit to work two hours a day, today I did five, which was extremely unwise. But I did get stuff done. Tomorrow I'm teaching; a thematic course about various perspectives in the historical study of clothing and fashion for our second semester students.
But tonight I have spent five hours on my back on the sofa, watching "Bones".
#academia #chronicillness #psoriaticarthritis #bones
Healtwise I am in a bad period now. My sinusitis that has been a constant presence since October is worse, and on top of the constant pain that is my everyday existence, my ankle that I sprained on Tuesday, walking down a stair is hurting and stops me from distracting myself by moving around.
I am alternating between lying down reading a new book about a modern revival of Minoan Paganism and knitting. It's going to become a fair isle slipover.
#knitting #psoriaticarthritis #chronicpainwarrior
Woke up from pain after five hours and couldn't go back to sleep because of said pain. I had plans for today. Now there will be "Bones" on tv and elevated foot. Though the main pain was of course not from the ankle, but from my rib cage, jae, and sinuses.
Some joy in the misery is that I got a package yesterday with this snake bracelet, and this book by Laura Perry ,https://pagan.plus/users/TheTempleMom which I wouldn't have known about without pixelfed.
#chronicpain #psoriaticarthritis

I wasn’t able to exercise much during the continuous rain storms and now my body is unhappy. The cold and lack of movement has given me a bit of stiffness and fatigue. I’ve been very spoiled on my biologic as I didn’t feel hardly anything. Pout cry waaa. #psoriaticarthritis

I did just walk for almost an hour so yay me.

Slept really badly tonight. I think I didn't get a full six hours. So my brain isn't in shape to read and judge whether a PhD thesis is ready for Viva, which was my original plan.
But I have been to the gym for the first time since maybe April, I have defrosted the freezer, and I have read a little in a book about 18th and 19th century calico printing in Sweden. And I have a very beautiful amaryllis.
#psoriaticarthritis #chronicillnes #textilehistory
This year's last pool physio.
It is very good for us arthritic people.
#psoriaticarthritis #chronicpain