“I have a painful connective tissue disease called Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Doctors called me a “moderate-to-severe” case. Chronic pain changed the physical structure of my brain – I was diagnosed with medically-induced c-PTSD. The pain was so constant that I broke my spine in three places and DIDN’T NOTICE. Doctors found it by accident after it already healed. hEDS and this pain made me think: “You’ll never have kids, never get married. You’re too much of a burden. You’ll suffer your