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Charles Turner
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Losing my life to a contested illness one day at a time. Deep af
Joined November 2010

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“Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive as I perceive, look, experience, examine, and for once; just once, understand.” — Oscar Wilde
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Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too, Just once. And never again. But to have been this once, completely, even if only once: to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing. - Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies (IX) 📷 Josef Sudek, Untitled Woods. 1960's
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finding peace by finally acknowledging there’s no self-sustaining tupperware organizing system. the shelf or drawer will always slip into disarray and simply needs periodic maintenance to keep it functioning
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Okay! As promised, this brain fog piece now has an audio version (read by me), which I hope will help those whose brain fog makes reading hard. (On the article page, just beneath the lead image, find the long grey box and click the Play symbol. theatlantic.com/health/archive)
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🚨I wrote about “brain fog”—one of the most common & disabling symptoms of long COVID (and many other pre-pandemic conditions), and one of the most misunderstood. Here’s what brain fog actually is, and what it’s like to live with it. 1/ theatlantic.com/health/archive
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Thank you and for the opportunity to talk about my daughter Maeve and the need to reset the agenda on ME. has started the process of change but there’s a long way to go.
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ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) affects more women than men. The Health Secretary @sajidjavid has set out a plan to do more to tackle ME. We speak to @TimesONeill, who last year lost his eldest daughter Maeve, after suffering from ME since her teens: bbc.in/38H5wFb
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I'm a 50-year-old gay man. I lived through the anti-gay moral panic of the 80s and the many battles against discriminatory legislation and social injustice of the 90s and 2000s, and I'm here to tell you that what is being done to trans people today is what was done to us then.
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