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Young Wild & Spoonie - Comfort is important



A picture of a young fair skinned womans legs covered in tattoos. They are in black ink with no colour, roses and in an old fashioned traditional style. She is laying on a white bed with a white pillow, a black and white coffee tumbler and grey fuzzy socks. Overlaying text is white highlight with black text. Upper left corner overlay is in cursive and says "Young Wild & Spoonie" . Centered Overlaying text is in print and says "#05 Fuzzy socks are essential.

A collage of a thin girl wearing pajamas the top is white with a drawing of a coffee cup that says "coffee is my lover" and the bottoms are pink patterned with coffee cups that say the same thing. The right side image is of a girl in black and white with a beautiful messy bun. Overlaying text is white highlight with black text. The upper left hand corner states "Young, Wild, & spoonie" and the Center overlayng text says "#03 Messy buns + Cute pajamas are everything"A collage of four, upper left hand in the Netflix text which is red in background slim white letters with black outline says "Yeah, I do Marathons" Upper right picture is of an indie room with Christmas lights hung as a decoration and pictures probably of good memories hung between the lights. It looks very comfortable and whimsical in the room. lower left corner is of fuzzy red and white patterned Christmans socks with pom poms attatched, lower right corner is of similar pajamas as #03 post except it is grey in cloth colour of the top and teal in background of the shorts. Overlaying text is white highlight with black text. Upper left corner says "Young Wild & Spoonie" in cursive and the centered text is in pA picture of a orange and white kitten in a pet adoption home so small that it is being held in one hand, it is swaddled in a small blanket. Overlaying text colours are white highlight with black text. The upper left corner says "Young Wild & Spoonie" and the center overlaying text is in print and says "#21 Blanket Burritos"



DISCLAIMER: THE PICTURES IN THE BACKGROUND ARE NOT MINE
I know these aren't in consecutive numbers, I thought I'd add the ones about getting as comfortable as possible during a flare first.

If you told me before to find the positive in chronic illness I’d laugh at you and think you were on some type of shroom. Now if you tell me I might be able to answer, I’m still on my journey and trying to find more things but I’m farther now & I can see some of the things I enjoy as a Spoonie.   I’ve read Just Spoonie Things, & I have to say I love it and totally relate to it, there are so many things I can say YES that’s me.

To say chronic illness can be hellish is an understatement, but I was hoping Just Spoonie Things would put a couple cute and positive outcomes of it like they do for pretty much any Just__things. You know, the cute background and that little statement overlaying that puts warmth in your heart.  I felt like it was missing that so I decided to do my own “Young, Wild, & Spoonie”   A large number of Teens, Children and Young Adults can feel overwhelmingly isolated 

#1 – because socializing becomes a challenge
#2- Because everyone around them has health
#3- If they are what I like to call Moderately-Severely Disabled they won’t be able to work, or go to 
college like the rest of their healthy friends. They might even be bedbound or housebound.

All of that against you as a Teen, Youngin’ or 20-something + Life in general + Chronic illness =  a knife through your heart.  I mean it's a unique feeling when your body is totally failing you in the time of your life that your "supposed" to be becoming more independent but your becoming more dependent & you can't do much about it, not to mention all the different pressures to live like an Able-Bodied Teen/20-Something ect.  So I felt it’d be nice to try and circulate some positive content. 

Hope you like it!

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