What This Does to Us
@whatthisdoestous.bsky.social
Writing about the gap between who we actually are and who systems tell us we should be. For people who are capable and tired and deserve to stop questioning that. Thinking alongside you, not above you. We're figuring this out together.
That voice that says "push through it"—it didn't originate with us. We inherited it from people who had to work through illness to survive. Survival strategies don't come with expiration dates. They get passed down, internalized. And they might not be true.
January 31, 2026 at 3:01 PM
That voice that says "push through it"—it didn't originate with us. We inherited it from people who had to work through illness to survive. Survival strategies don't come with expiration dates. They get passed down, internalized. And they might not be true.
The invisible labor of constantly calculating whether we're "sick enough" to justify rest—that math never stops. We're weighing symptoms against optics, measuring discomfort against inconvenience. The calculation itself is the problem, not whatever conclusion we reach.
January 30, 2026 at 12:01 AM
The invisible labor of constantly calculating whether we're "sick enough" to justify rest—that math never stops. We're weighing symptoms against optics, measuring discomfort against inconvenience. The calculation itself is the problem, not whatever conclusion we reach.