Tag: disability

School and EDS

And HSD too. Always. Anytime I say EDS, I consider the forms of Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders (HSD) to automatically be included. Because, much like how Asperger’s got described and separated out of Autism Spectrum Disorders in the 1990’s (it has since been folded back in and the bar raised a bit since 2015 to be

No Group is a Monolith

I had absolutely NO idea when I fell down the Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes rabbit-hole back in 2012 suddenly landing in a wheelchair that I would end up falling down several other massively long rabbit-holes with yet other rabbit-holes attached, ack! Much less that I would stop walking for a year, and end up using crutches and

Flares happen

This post is brought to you by Peanut, my faithful therapy rattie and napping partner as I find myself going splat a lot more with my 2nd worst flare since my initial 2012 onset “storm” or “cascade” that first got me diagnosed with Hypermobile type Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. I’m strongly suspecting a hormonal cause to this