Writing prompt:
Threads: wishbonewords
Writers with disabilities, chronic illness and chronic pain. Use your best word (or sentence) to describe what it’s like to be in pain for someone who may not understand it’s like for us 🖊️
If I had to pick a single word to describe my pain, it would be “relentless.” Even when I am as comfortable as I can possibly be, there’s at least a dull ache or throbbing twinge somewhere in my body. But that’s my normal baseline, so when I tell people that I am hitting 7, 8, or 9 on the pain scale, I don’t think they understand that my 1 is probably their 3, based on my own pre-disability experience of my own body.
Even if I could formulate the words to explain all the various pain states I go through in a day, I could never give a proper description of the cumulative effect. Pain is more than hurting. Being in pain is exhausting. It’s distracting. On a bad day, it can drown out everything else going on around me. Even at the end of a good day, it can be hard not to take it personally, as if the universe had it in for me all along.
The Mia Experiment 