Cementing a fair amount of my organs and ligaments together, endometriosis has negatively impacted enormous swaths of my life. Incurable, treatments and management plans range from miserable to soul-crushing, and true relief is hard to come by. Most of the time, people are too uncomfortable with negativity and pain for honest answers. Wanting to fix it, fix me, they offer positivity and solutions, which become toxic in their frequency. I’m an optimistic person in my own way, but there’s a danger in forceful optimism and not recognizing reality. I exist in a state of perpetual pain, and I’ve
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