About This Blog
This is me-
(Looking extremely cool in a black and white photo.)
Selma Shabazz; Amateur author, posturally messed-up person, "an actual eighty-four year old"(-My friends), teenager,morning hater, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt fan, frequent spoon theory referencer, Muslim convert, hijab-softness conoisseuse, part-time wheelchair user, Kettle Brand Chip Enthusiast.
I named this blog "Take It With A Grain Of Salt" because, to increase my blood volume, I am supposed to eat a high- salt diet. Along with this, I often take new diagnoses and treatments with a grain of salt to avoid being disappointed if they do not work for me.
As for the subtitle, you may be able to tell that it annoys me when chronic illness bloggers title their websites, "Chronically [Insert your name here.]" It's not that I have anything against these people, and people like them educated me about chronic illnesses about which I did not know existed. However, blogs like that seem a bit cookie cutter to me- and if you think about it, everyone, chronic illness or not, are themselves chronically, (meaning their whole lives) so that name does not particularly imply anything as far as chronic illness goes. To me, it seems as though people who possess those blogs and YouTube channels appear to have progressed in their chronic illness journey- whereas people such as myself still have a concrete diagnosis ahead of them. They say to take it day-by-day, but as a teenager, that can be hard. So I've started this blog for that very reason- not necessarily to talk about my story, but reassure everyone who is new in the realm of chronic illness that their symptoms are valid- regardless of what they are,their severity,their sufferer's age, race, religion,orientation, the symptom's manifestation as physical or mental- every condition, every symptom- it ALL MATTERS.
(Looking extremely cool in a black and white photo.)
Selma Shabazz; Amateur author, posturally messed-up person, "an actual eighty-four year old"(-My friends), teenager,morning hater, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt fan, frequent spoon theory referencer, Muslim convert, hijab-softness conoisseuse, part-time wheelchair user, Kettle Brand Chip Enthusiast.
I named this blog "Take It With A Grain Of Salt" because, to increase my blood volume, I am supposed to eat a high- salt diet. Along with this, I often take new diagnoses and treatments with a grain of salt to avoid being disappointed if they do not work for me.
As for the subtitle, you may be able to tell that it annoys me when chronic illness bloggers title their websites, "Chronically [Insert your name here.]" It's not that I have anything against these people, and people like them educated me about chronic illnesses about which I did not know existed. However, blogs like that seem a bit cookie cutter to me- and if you think about it, everyone, chronic illness or not, are themselves chronically, (meaning their whole lives) so that name does not particularly imply anything as far as chronic illness goes. To me, it seems as though people who possess those blogs and YouTube channels appear to have progressed in their chronic illness journey- whereas people such as myself still have a concrete diagnosis ahead of them. They say to take it day-by-day, but as a teenager, that can be hard. So I've started this blog for that very reason- not necessarily to talk about my story, but reassure everyone who is new in the realm of chronic illness that their symptoms are valid- regardless of what they are,their severity,their sufferer's age, race, religion,orientation, the symptom's manifestation as physical or mental- every condition, every symptom- it ALL MATTERS.
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