Let’s get some respect for people with invisible illnesses here, OK? The Molly’s Fund blog has an explanation about invisible illness that you should go read. That link is courtesy of @pfanderson – thank you! However, that post has two images of things to say and things not to say to someone with an invisible illness, and there is no alternative text (alt text) for those who cannot read the text in the image. Therefore, I am posting them here with some alt text. 10 things to say to someone with an invisible illness I confess that I have a quibble with some of these, but I will say that 1, 2, 3, 9, and 10 are definitely spot on. How are you doing today? Is there anything I can do to make things easier? I am here for you, whatever you need. It must be very difficult to have…
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I am worried about our society and the attitudes we have toward each other. My worry is anecdotal, something I sense in my occasional dips into the passing Twitter stream. In the past month or so, I have read tweets about poverty and what seems to be an increase in discussion about the haves versus the have-nots. On their own, these articles might easily disappear in a tweet stream. Putting a few together in a little blog post might get at least one more person thinking about these topics and possibly coming up with better ways to fix these broken bits of our society. Then this article came along: Why I Make Terrible Decisions, or, Poverty Thoughts. The writer describes what poverty is to her. She does say these are not all her experiences, but a conglomeration of experiences. The subsequent backlash on Twitter is that “no poor person can…
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