Apr 17

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Working Too Hard Is A Form Of Self-Sabotage

…Which my school taught me to do

Person looking stressed-out next to a laptop, with their head in their hands — Photo by Elisa Ventur on Unsplash

Warning: this post discusses chronic illness and ableism

I was chronically ill, as a teenager

My school didn’t like how much time off I had, and pretty much harrassed me about it. 😩

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Writer, (book) blogger, reader, poet @ dorareads.co.uk , Queer, weird, bookish rebel. Welsh as a tractor on the M4. She/Her. Buy me a coffee @ ko-fi.com/ceearr

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Working Too Hard Is A Form Of Self-Sabotage

…Which my school taught me to do

I was chronically ill, as a teenager

More from Cee Arr

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Lost my way

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