Life with MS: don’t let people steal your identity
The feeling of stigmatization is a real one, especially when you have invisible disabilities when you don’t sit in a wheelchair (yet). It is also why society at large feels it has the right to question your medical status, whether asked for or not. Therefore, the feeling of guilt is an experience that many people with MS struggle with in different ways, even when we cannot begin to grasp why we are being questioned in the first place.
Beware of the thief!
In between trying to set up a new laptop today and resting enough before another batch of daily tasks comes my way, I came across an email about MS and the question what MS has stolen from us. In her blog post, Nicole Lemelle says “Multiple Sclerosis robs us of our outside roles and independence. Which most times amounts to our identities”. So where do I begin? Do I even want to answer this? Will it lead to feelings I thought half forgotten?
