Q is for Quintessential

Quintessential - adjective Representing the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class.

Here's an example just so we all know what were talking about; She is the quintessential sick girl - depressive, ill looking and bed bound .

And here is what I'm saying to you...Don't be that person. Don't be what the world expects you to be, just because you have an illness doesn't mean you are ill. 

Sure there are days when staying in bed is the only option but you don't have to lay there in half darkness moaning listlessly like a proper Victorian miss. Even with little to no spoons you can still make the best out of it, build a pillow fort, laugh along to your favourite film...do whatever it is you do to make you happy, or even just content. 

Make yourself something else. Be something other than that sick girl or that disabled bloke. Be the guy who has an awesome origami collection (Origami, by the way, is brilliant for high mental but low physical spoons; it's fun and you get something productive out of it) or the woman with the best Olaf impression (The snowman in Frozen.)

Because no one should be the quintessential sick person. We are all so much more than our illness.