Suffering by Comparison

The problem with comparing our problems

Francisco Miralles
Nov 4 · 11 min read

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I have been sick for half my life.

At age 10, I was diagnosed with an autoimmune condition called leaky gut syndrome: a condition that makes it so that the walls of your intestines are permeable. This allows particles of food to seep through those walls, causing chronic inflammation throughout the body…

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Francisco Miralles

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You can call me FJ. I’m an undergraduate student at the University of Washington who believes that to write is to learn how to think. So here I am.

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