Author: Letizia Pontoriero
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On Pain, Proof, and the Refusal to Disappear
As someone living with chronic pain from fibromyalgia and endometriosis, I enter advocacy because suffering of invisible diseases taught me how absurdly difficult it is to talk about pain at all. Not just in clinical settings, but in everyday life, with friends, colleagues, partners, even at events supposedly designed to discuss it. Speaking about chronic pain often feels like…