Illness
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Walking Toward the Thing: Burden and the Work of Surviving
In the days before cochlear implant surgery, Kuselwa reflects on chronic illness, disability, grief, and the invisible labour of survival. Walking Toward the Thing explores the emotional and administrative burden of illness, the impact on family, the politics of accommodation, and what it means to move toward something life-altering when certainty is unavailable.
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My Body Glitches. My Mind Does Not.
What is FND? Or rather, what does my FND look like? Honestly, it can look like I am well until you work with me closely over time. Then the cracks show. Functional Neurological Disorder is not a personality flaw. It is a neurological condition in which the brain’s signalling does not work reliably. The symptoms…
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When My Body Forgot Me
The Beginning of Unravelling At the beginning of this year, I faced a kind of horror I never imagined. It started with tingling, then numbness, on the right side of my body. This had happened once or twice over Christmas, and as someone with Functional Neurological Disorder, I told myself, Maybe this is just a…
Where Words Take Root 