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please remember I suffer with severe cognitive dysfunction this may be a confusing read. some AI help with written content
Well a very good afternoon, morning or evening where ever you may be , or whomever you maybe , to all my readers of the blog please remember to HYDRATE in this new heatwave !!!!.
There are plenty of articles explaining cognitive dysfunction in multiple sclerosis.
This isn't one of them.
This is what it actually feels like when your own brain steals a sentence halfway through saying it, leaves you staring into space like an unplugged toaster, then wanders off without so much as an apology.
Welcome to the asshole in the room.
I will Tell You About the Asshole in the Room (Because calling it cognitive dysfunction makes it sound like a polite cardigan.)
It's amazing, the mind.
A smell can drag an entire year back by the scruff of the neck. A song. The taste of cheap coffee. Some stupid little thing. Then—bang—a hidden door swings open and suddenly you're somewhere you haven't visited in decades. Every detail waiting for you like you only popped out for milk.
Memory is a strange old beast.
Until the asshole walks in.
Call it brain fog. Call it cognitive dysfunction. Call it whatever keeps the neurologist happy.
I call it the asshole in the room.
You're halfway through a sentence. It's a good one too. For once the words are lining up in the right order. You can almost see the point you're trying to make.
Then the asshole strolls in without knocking.
He sweeps everything off the table.
Thought gone.
Word gone.
Sentence gone.
Not hiding.
Not almost there.
Gone.
You know it existed because you were bloody well thinking it five seconds ago, but now it's like trying to remember a dream after someone turns the lights on.
Multiple sclerosis doesn't just attack your legs.
It attacks your bloody operating system.
My head feels like corrupted software trying to reboot itself while someone keeps pulling the power lead out of the wall.
A neurologist once stared at my MRI for far longer than I liked.
Finally he looked at me and asked,
"How do you function?"
I asked if I could have a copy of the scan.
"No."
"What about a photo?"
"No."
Apparently it was "grim."
Five minutes later he discovered what I'd done for a living and suddenly wanted to talk surround sound systems and audio specifications.
Funny that.
One minute you're a medical disaster.
The next you're technical support.
Living with MS is full of those moments.
People see the wheelchair.
They see the out of control beard.
The hat.
The sunglasses.
What they don't see is the fistfight happening inside my head every single day.
The constant buffering.
The loading icon.
The random system crashes.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm losing the plot.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm seeing something everyone else has forgotten.
Sometimes I think too much.
Sometimes I'm just hungry and a jam sandwich fixes more problems than philosophy ever has.
I've stopped worrying about looking eccentric.
I'm sixty-six.
I've earned eccentric.
If I want to think about consciousness, ancient ideas, artificial intelligence, spirituality, or why toy cars still make me smile, I bloody well will.
Life is strange.
MS makes it stranger.
But neither of them gets to decide who I am.
So if I stop halfway through a conversation...
If I stare into space looking like Windows 95 has just crashed...
If I suddenly ask you what we were talking about...
Don't assume there's nothing going on upstairs.
The thought was there.
The asshole just nicked it.
He usually gives it back.
Eventually.
Until then I'll have something sweet, laugh at the absurdity of it all, and remind myself of something MS doesn't get to take.
I'm still here.
I'm just buffering.
wishing everybody peace healing love and light, please remember to hydrate as the new heatwave will be here soon apparently.... and also alien/nhi/demon whatever they call it... disclosure as well.. watch them land at the final of the world cup lol or a massive big nothing burger with fry's please lol
Warlock Dark Chronic illness survivor, truth-teller, occasional bastard. From My Living Hell (For those who came here by accident: yes, my living hell is real. And yes, we still fight. Every shitty day. With defiance.)




