Living with chronic illness requires me to accept that my life will have challenges that I didn’t plan to experience. One of those challenges is learning to navigate a series of fairly complicated relationships.
As a young adult, I must figure out how to balance independence and the ability to live my own life, while also getting the help and support I need from family and friends to manage even what non-ill people would think of as simple tasks.
As I meet new people and make new friends, I have to decide just how much I will “let them in.” As someone who lives with an invisible illness, it sometimes feels as though I am carrying around this big secret, and I have to figure out when, where, and at what time it’s appropriate to give the
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