Own Your Awesome!

I find it really helps that I have friends with significant chronic conditions, and that there are some really good communities on DW that I've managed to find, where people are very honest about living with chronic illnesses/limitations, because that gives me a sane and sensible baseline, rather than societal expectations. Mind you, I had an epiphany listening to talkback radio (Australian Radio National, so somewhat high-brow) talking about living with chronic pain, thinking 'that would be awful', getting partway through the story and realising that *I* live with chronic pain, and I just hadn't registered it, because I don't typically medicate for it!