I think I've only had one person actually say something like that to me, but I always feel like everyone is thinking it. That's one of my growth challenges--to learn to forget what I think everyone else is thinking and simply deal with myself and what I want and what I think is right. I find it surprisingly hard to do.

And because my injury is hidden, and because it goes quiet when I am inactive, I keep thinking I'm lazy. I keep forgetting that I'm not working because I'm injured, not because I don't want to. All those plans and goals I had before the injury are still in my head, which means I get down on myself for not doing any of them. It's all part of the journey.