Tag: health
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Fighting for Answers: My Ongoing Battle with Suspected POTS, EDS, and Hypermobility (Part 2)
How do you stay proactive when advocating for yourself? Join me as I navigate the ongoing battle with suspected POTS, EDS, and hypermobility.
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Fighting for Answers: My Ongoing Battle with Suspected POTS, EDS, and Hypermobility (Part 1)
Ever wondered what happens when your advocacy efforts hit a wall? Discover the challenges and triumphs in my journey with suspected POTS, EDS, and hypermobility.
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Making Love Loud Without the Labels
What if your deepest relationships didn’t need a script? What if chaos was compassionate? Let go of the labels and find out what connection feels like without a rulebook.
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I Speak Many Languages. Masking Follows Me in ALL of Them
I’m multilingual. But behind each language was a mask—until I found the one that didn’t come with trauma. Turns out, fluency isn’t freedom. Identity is.
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ASL Journey
I have mentioned I’m working on learning ASL. I thought it might be fun to share how I’m doing with this. There is also the disturbing thing I want to share with you. Did you know 90% of parents who have a deaf child do not bother to learn ASL? Talk about isolating to put…
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When Talking Takes Everything—And Silence Gives it Back
I spent years performing speech that drained me—now I’ve unmasked the truth. Talking isn’t connection for me—it’s exhaustion, confusion, and finally… freedom
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No Therapy, Still Broken: How Escaping ABA Didn’t Mean I Was Safe
Speech became performance. Silence felt wrong. But avoiding therapy didn’t mean escaping harm—it just meant the trauma wore a mask too. This is what verbal masking really costs.
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The Impact of Gaslighting in Medicine on Patient Health a Personal Experience
This is a longer post yes, however the story it tells is one that needs to be told. Even now I barely scratch the surface and that is so far from okay that I have no words for what I touch on.
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A Childhood of Words, a Lifetime of Silence
For years I thought my constant talking was personality—until I realized it was masking. Now I’m reclaiming silence, expression, and the truth I was never allowed to speak.
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Why Dominants Must Use Safe Words
The other day I ran across something rather shocking. “Dom’s don’t need a safe word”. This covers why they do in the broader sense and it touches on other safety aspects.
Who am I? 