This is a First Person column by Anastasia Chipelski, a CBC copy editor and freelance editor/writer, who lives with energy-limiting chronic illness. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.
Every aspect of my life requires planning and effort: Sitting up, standing, walking, digesting food, reading, thinking, scrolling social media, talking to friends or watching shows.
I live with energy-limiting chronic illness, an umbrella term used to skip over preconceptions, stereotypes and stigma of specific diagnoses to get to the key issue: I live with an energy impairment, and it affects every corner of my day.
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