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I loved reading this and want to share with my niece who is often alone and struggling. Many of these feeling rang true for me too. I was surprised you had them as when I worked with you, you were so smart, talented, and easy to work with I had no idea you felt these things. Thank you so much for sharing. - Cathie

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Immediately after finishing this piece, couch me asked for a nap and I joyfully obliged. ❤️

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Couch Stephanie, meet Allison’s gamer girl. Gamer girl wants to do games on her iPhone, particularly coloring games, as a way to escape misery and have a little fun and to have some control over one goddamn thing. Sadly, when she gets her way, it fucks up our shoulder significantly and we end up in significant pain all day. So everyone else in the system is mad at her all the time. We are still working with her and looking for ways for her to be able to play in a life that is more and more limited (because of the chronic pain) and to exercise some control. So Couch Stephanie, she wants you to know that she really gets it about having everybody else in the system mad at you all the time! it's ironic that she just wants us to be happy and have fun and be distracted from the pain but she ends up causing more pain.😢

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