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I have a dynamic disability — here’s what I want you to know

Early adult woman sitting on a couch with hands clasped near her mouth, leaning forward in a dim living room.
Woman on a sofa accompanying coverage about the unpredictability of dynamic disabilities.

Kit, a TikTok creator known as @moonlit_kit, shares that she lives with conditions including POTS, Hypermobile EDS, and MCAS, and explains what she wishes people understood about her dynamic disability.

Her core point is that a dynamic disability fluctuates in severity and impact—unlike a static disability—so how a person feels and what support they need can change day by day or even hour by hour, making planning hard.

She notes that these changes often invite stigma: People with Disabilities may use a mobility aid one day and not the next, or manage a task one day and struggle the next, yet none of that means the disability is fake; the unpredictability itself is the problem.

Kit adds that uncertainty can bring stress, anxiety, and frustration, and that others sometimes form expectations based on someone’s lower-symptom days; she describes a cycle of feeling better, sliding into imposter syndrome, then flaring and being reminded she is not cured, a reality many commenters say they recognize.

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By: Danielle Kate Wroe, Senior Social News Reporter

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