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I spent a year as a self-diagnosed autistic. Here’s what I learnt

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Learning to breastfeed for fun, not food

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Gout isn’t just for men who drink too much — women get it, too

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No-one told me about the link between the pill, gut health, and SIBO

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I’m non-binary. Here’s my journey with the mini pill

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My vertigo was dismissed as anxiety for years

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Learning to adjust my sex life with lupus

I can’t ‘adult’ due to chronic illness, but I won’t be ashamed

Queer and PoC-specific therapy is lifesaving, and it taught me to accept myself

Accepting inverted nipples in a world obsessed with body symmetry

I had an abortion because of the Home Office — and I’m not alone

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Why I sometimes like my chronic pain

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No-one warned me about antidepressant withdrawal syndrome

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My heart condition was dismissed as me being fat and anxious

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Grieving the loss of an unwanted pregnancy

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It took two thirds of my life to diagnose me with endometriosis

Being transmasculine in spaces where women fear men

I experience sudden sadness and disconnect after sex

What happened after I got an ‘abnormal’ smear test result

My hypersexuality isn’t ‘sex addiction’, it’s a response to abuse

My UTI nearly killed me

Gynaecology’s obsession with ‘virginity’ fails queer Muslims

Focus on me, not my male partner, when treating my vaginismus

I am a South Asian girl. It’s culture, not religion, that doesn’t value me