Rachel's PEARLS Posts
By: Rachel
April 28, 2026
I'm trying to figure out identity. Am I the same person who believed anything was possible and now feels that [...]
By: Rachel
March 29, 2026
Having a list a mile long of mental health diagnoses takes so much time. I've been in therapy about 12 [...]
By: Rachel
February 10, 2026
Happy Rare Disease Week! I have oculocutaneous albinism type 4, which is one of the even more rare forms of [...]
By: Rachel
November 18, 2025
It's not that I don't like compliments about surviving so many hard life experiences; they really mean a lot to [...]
By: Rachel
November 18, 2025
One of my New Year's resolutions was to lose a bunch of weight. Well, we all know how these resolutions [...]
By: Rachel
October 25, 2025
It's the end of invisible Disability awareness week! I am sort-of a person with invisible disabilities. Albinism--a lot of people [...]
By: Rachel
June 21, 2025
Getting used to a mobility aid I don't really want people to pity me, because a mobility aid actually means [...]
By: Rachel
April 2, 2025
April 2 is World Autism Acceptance Day! Having autism is exhausting. I have to work extra hard to understand social [...]
By: Rachel
November 29, 2024
I hope you all had a great day yesterday! I'm thankful for so many things. You know the lists that [...]
By: Rachel
November 22, 2024
My heart sank. I just told someone that I wasn't getting the services I need, and they explained the problem [...]
By: Rachel
October 29, 2024
My Grandpa died last week. It didn't really hit me at first. But then someone made a request of me [...]
By: Rachel
September 5, 2024
Well, it feels like so much has passed since I wrote last, and at the same time it feels like [...]
By: Rachel
August 24, 2024
We're taught from a young age that the goal in life is to be independent. We start out [...]
By: Rachel
July 17, 2024
I've always been flexible--not my personality ?--but flexible with my body. When I was little I could do the splits [...]















