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zipporah arielle

Jun 11, 2020

13 min read

Lived Through This

Learning to Get Comfortable Talking About My Shit

On Crohn’s disease, desirability, and internalized disableism

Alternating rows of toilet paper rolls and cardboard toilet paper tubes on a pink surface. — Credit: Paopano/iStock/Getty Images Plus

CN: internalized ableism/disablism (and much of it); gastrointestinal disease/bathroom talk

TW: emetophobia.

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