So yesterday it was #MEawarenessDay/ #MillionsMissing. Some tweets were sent. Now #PEM. Just fired up my computer for #MEawarenessHour after a day necessarily spent mainly in darkness and notice that I cannot navigate multiple browser tabs tonight. It is truly too complicated.
I have tunnel vision almost as if I was drunk. There is this tiny pinpoint in the middle of my visual field were I can see clearly. Everything around it is this brightly lit blinding haze. Reading is reading individual letters.

#MEawarenessHour #MillionsMissing #pwME
Remember the knot that formed in your head when trying to learn a new motor skill, like for example a new scale on a musical instrument? Typing on my keyboard is now exactly like this.

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I break into a sweat as I direct that tiny pinpoint of a gaze from key to key and as I try to then reach for it with clumsy fingers. The world is measured in millimeters, not just in space...

#MEawarenessHour #MillionsMissing #pwME #MEcfs
But also in time. I have zero recall of the preceding sentence and no plan for the next.

#MEawarenessHour #MillionsMissing #pwME #MEcfs
The flu-like feeling of feverishness is mounting. The shakes start.
This thread: 45 minutes of struggling, a day's worth of capacity.
This reduction of self is brought on reliably by a preceding day slightly exceeding the limits.

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