Women aren’t “more anxious” about their health, we’re more traumatised because we were dismissed, misdiagnosed, and ignored while we were actually sick. This isn’t personal failure. This is medical trauma. This is a nervous system response to being harmed in the exact place we were supposed t

Women aren’t “more anxious” about their health, we’re more traumatised because we were dismissed, misdiagnosed, and ignored while we were actually sick. This isn’t personal failure. This is medical trauma. This is a nervous system response to being harmed in the exact place we were supposed t

Welcome to Wheelie Hard Truths — the series where I say the things abled people really don’t want to hear, but absolutely need to. Let’s talk about ableism — not as a “mean comment” or “bad attitude,” but as a systemic issue that’s built into the world around us. Ableism is the reason so many p