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Imagine What It's Like to Live My Life as a Chronically Ill Person

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“Well, hey, at least you get to just lay around and do nothing all day.” I’m sure many of us who are chronically ill have heard countless varieties of this phrase ad nauseam.

The first time someone said this to me, I smiled and chuckled a bit, thinking they were just joking and trying to comfort me in some well-intentioned yet misguided way.

But when they didn’t smile back and instead responded with nothing but a cold stare, I froze as the realization dawned on me.

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