A Familiar Story

I saw this and was too inspired not to post it here.

I've been through all of this, even the non-"cute" version of this medicine, where I very much had to see the needles.
I always have such weird feelings when I hear of others' diseases because so much of an illness is suffering alone.
"What a terrible thing to doubt your own reality," he says, and that sums up the existential chaos of autoimmune right there.  So much of a disease is defiance, persuading ignorant others that there really is a problem, that there's almost a badge of "I've suffered more than you" that comes from the need to prove your pain.
And it's videos like this, it's sharing your sufferings and your truths that breaks the assumed solitude that is often diagnosed along with an illness.

This video is incredible.