Health “Reckless and Hopeful Subservience”: A Guide to Endometriosis
The author on being diagnosed with advanced-stage endometriosis and learning about the array of unsatisfactory treatment options.
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Health ADHD, Not MPDG: Growing Up With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Grace Lidinsky-Smith on living with ADHD, how she finally got a diagnosis, and the ways in which gender socialization can complicate diagnosis for many.
Health Disability Representation and the Problem with “Inspiration Porn”
Keah Brown on the representation of people with disabilities, and the dehumanization perpetuated by "inspiration porn."
Health More Than Enough: On Swimming, Walking, and Forgotten Sensations
"It’s strange to propel myself forward with nothing but my will and my limbs. Is this what walking felt like? Feels like? I can’t remember anymore."
History Watching Downton Abbey with an Historian: In Sickness and in Health
Historian Mo Moulton on the brewing conflict over the local hospital in the final season of Downton Abbey.
Family The Power of Storytelling: Watching All My Children with My Mom
Val Wang on her mother's history and faulty memory, and how familiar stories and 'All My Children' provided needed touchstones in her life.
Advice Aunt Acid: Advice for Dealing with a Difficult Roommate
Aunt Acid offers some advice to a reader at their wit's end with a roommate.
Health So You Have an STD: The Herpes Edition
You have herpes. Now what?
Advice Important Sources Of Protein For Introverts
Close friendships with just a few people
An avocado sliced in thoughtful silence
No birthday party, just a couple of friends over for an intimate dinner of chickpeas and listening
An INTJ salmon
Health The Waiting Room: Empire Got it Wrong
Kelly Davio's latest Waiting Room column for The Butter contrasts the reality of myasthenia gravis with the fiction advanced in the TV show 'Empire.'
Health Episode
The author on her time in a psych ward.
Cartoons & Comics Why Hawkeye Was the Hero I Needed
Christy Admiraal on how having a flawed, fictional hero like Hawkeye has helped her deal with her bipolar diagnosis.
Health My Only Carriage: On Naming a Nameless Disability
Emma Bolden on finding a name for her disability, and the ways in which it affects her everyday thoughts, actions, and perceptions.
Advice How To Menstruate
Fifteen easy steps.
Health The Waiting Room: You Have Kids, Right?
In her latest Waiting Room column, Kelly Davio writes about the question so many people ask without thinking.
