Sublime

If we understand ourselves as living in a world of unseen evils, the immune system, that largely conceptual entity devoted to protecting us from invisible threats, will inevitably take on an inflated importance and a distorted function.

delirious

hallowed

breathless prose.

To have the dignity of one’s reality: this, I realized, was why I worked so hard to find language to tell my story. I wanted to show how the emphasis on the psychological nature of chronic illness in a culture that pathologizes the failure to “overcome” robbed people of grace, while instructing them to suffer their illness with grace.

Some prefer to assume health as an identity. I am healthy, we tell each other, meaning that we eat certain foods and avoid others, that we exercise and do not smoke. Health, it is implied, is the reward for living the way we live, and lifestyle is its own variety of immunity.

sirens,

legacy cognitive blindness