Chronic-Illness

Multiple disabilities don’t add up to twice the difficulty. They compound. And the hidden cost of producing “acceptable” output from a system with no reserve capacity is one that no assessment, no checklist, and no institution has ever known how to count.

How I separated college Bible coursework from daily time with God, simplified my routine for low-energy days, and learned that prayer doesn’t have to be spoken out loud.

A personal update on why I am moving away from the backend developer path, what Boot.dev did teach me, and what I want to build next with accessibility and sustainability in mind.

A personal reflection on why emotional expression can be physically expensive when you are chronically ill, and why quiet does not mean okay.

I’m grieving the realization that the independent future people imagined for me wasn’t based on my actual support needs. It was based on what they could see, what they wanted to believe, and what systems are willing to recognize.

The common assumption is that multiple disabilities are additive: two disabilities means twice the difficulty. This is wrong. Disabilities compound multiplicatively, and accessibility design that ignores this causes active harm.

A personal exploration of how severe Topographical Agnosia shaped my transition from the visual chaos of frontend development to the semantic stability of the CLI and logic-focused tools.

An in-depth essay exploring the challenges faced by multiply disabled learners in traditional education settings, and how self-paced education provides a more accessible and flexible alternative.

A personal reflection on the barriers and joys of gaming with multiple disabilities, focusing on why text-first, untimed systems are essential for my access.