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I have ME/chronic fatigue. Let me teach you how to be tired.

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  Are you tired? Waking up late? Having too many  afternoon naps? Me too! There’s a bit of a “well aren’t we all” mentality at the moment, stuck in a dichotomy of acknowledging the toll of our current shitty circumstances /and/ discrediting it/. It’s a level of Stiff Upper Lip mentality of aggressive resilience that can only be achieved in trite films on the Home Front. Optimism isn’t bad. But stoicism is self destructive. So yes, Why did i ask? You’re probably fucking tired. But maybe I can convince you of the tricks of the trade.  I have chronic fatigue. Most of you probably already knew that; unfortunately having a chronic illness that permeates every part of your life does, in fact, come up in conversation quite a bit. For those of you who don’t know what chronic fatigue is, it is an illness, which is sometimes linked to the immune system, that leaves you drained and — you guessed it — fatigued. It has many other long term symptoms that aren’t just tiredness, just as being sad is n
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Why I’m Never Starting a Blog (Oh, Wait)

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The amount of times I’ve told myself not to start a blog, I’ve become a parody of myself. I’ve told myself that white girls with blogs are the same as white guys with podcasts, a crime as atrocious and “basic” as my Jane Eyre laptop case. There’s a good point to be had about the inherent cutesy white supremacy of this over saturation of white voices, just like there is about every first year white feminist’s appreciation for Bronte. But somewhere along the line, it’s become resistance for resistance sake — apparently the final thread of my teenage hipsterness. I grew up just young enough for blogs to be both prevalent and cringe, cool and out of fashion. I don’t read many blogs, and I’m sorry about that. I can’t shake the feeling that they’re Linkedin for arts students at best, and livestreamed masturbation at their worst. It’s a little ridiculous. I will watch vloggers and game streamers and listen to podcasts; I adore diary comics and Snapchat stories, and my own Twitter is a stream
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