Shoutout to @legendaryrootz for this one because some of you need to read it more than once.

You’ve spent so much time being frustrated with your body that you forgot it’s still yours. It’s the one that gets you through the bad days and the good ones, the one that showed up to every appointment and every infusion and every morning you didn’t think you could do, and it did all of that while fighting something most people will never have to understand. It’s easy to feel betrayed by a body that has MS or lupus or NMOSD. You had plans for it, and it changed the terms without asking, and some days the anger about that is louder than anything else. But hating your body doesn’t make it work better, and waiting until it cooperates to treat it with kindness means you’ll be waiting forever. Sis, you only have one body. It is worthy exactly as it is. Not the version from before your diagnosis. Not the version you’re hoping shows up next month. This one, today, with everything it’s carrying. Say something kind about your body in the comments. We don’t do that enough. #WeAreILLMatic #ChronicIllnessCommunity #BlackWomenWithMS #LupusAwareness #BodyAcceptance