“[The challenges of living with an invisible condition is]…not being believed by your doctors. …It’s being the youngest one in the room when I go to the doctor’s office, and then getting dirty looks from the other patrons…and then I think another issue about living with an invisible disability is people who do not have chronic pain or a disability or do not know somebody else who is disabled or chronically ill, they are more likely to say it’s a problem with you, it’s a fault with you.”

“…chronic pain has taken my ability to go outside and go hiking and ever being able to own a dog, because I cannot keep up with one. …It has taken my ability to be out in the sunlight for extended periods of time, and it feels like it’s taken away a lot of my autonomy.”

“…I actually did this piece while I was dying from a migraine, for lack of better words. And a lot of times during my migraines, I’m unable to sleep. It just keeps me awake. …when I was little, I would be reading in the dark. Now, as an adult, I draw in the dark. …So, I wanted to kind of express what I was feeling at that time, which was the brain. So the image is a face with somebody covering their left eye. Their left eye is dangling…[and there’s] a crack through the center and some fog coming out. This was a representation of the physical pain that I experience in my eyes, as well as the lack of vision that can come with it. And then the fog through the crack of the skill is like brain fog. The crack at the skull is the primary location that I was feeling it that day.”

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