About Me — Jazmine Clark

You can’t waste kindness, no matter where or how you spend it.

Here’s me, smiling with life, after I cut my hair with kitchen scissors and a Youtube tutorial

This is a photo of me in my usual spot these days when I am writing or too exhausted to move.

It has taken me over a week to write this, even right now I’m trying to catch my breath. I just got back from brushing my teeth and it feels like I just jogged a couple of miles uphill.

I’ve done a lot to heal my CPTSD symptoms, I’ve written about that process here, it used to be much worse but I’ve improved primarily through self-guided therapy resources. Currently, the most challenging one for me is chronic fatigue.

I have found a treatment regimen that helps improve it but I can’t get a hold of those meds at this time. I can’t sustain a regular 9 to 5 with this symptom along with being my partner’s disability assistant, so we make online content together.

I’m originally from Michigan, graduated from University of Michigan Ann Arbor, and I’m in Poland now with my partner. We’ve been very socially isolated together like this for 8 years, struggling to find the means to heal and earn a way out of this town.

It is very conservative here, people are openly anti-LGBT, my partner is trans but has to hide that here, and there’s a real stigma towards people with disabilities. Also…