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An open letter to healthy people from a former healthy person

August 18, 2015 BeingCharis 188 Comments

Dear healthy people,

Let me tell you about becoming a “sickbody.” I have Ankylosing Spondylitis. Right, just don’t even try to pronounce that. We’ll stick with calling it A.S., yeah? Really all you need to know about it for this blog post is that it’s a chronic immune-mediated inflammatory joint disease. I’ll share a link at the end for you to read more about it. (Here’s a distracting picture of me to help you along)

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Unstoppable, award-winning advocate since 2013, Charis is a disabled writer, speaker and model living with Axial Spondyloarthritis (axSpA), Major Depressive Disorder, Anxiety and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. They live with three cats in a falling-apart house bought while living in poverty. Click the picture to learn more.

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