Hello and welcome! I’m Elle Belle, you’re free to call me just Elle or Ellie. Elle Belle is just a nickname (of another nickname funnily enough) that my mom has been calling me basically my whole life and I think it’s cute! I’m 20 years old and I use any pronouns.
On this blog, we’ll primarily be talking about disability. I will be posting longer, more in depth articles on topics of my choosing, ideally once a month, and shorter posts about my own day to day experience a twice a week. The articles will be either my own experience or my opinions on discussions happening within the disability sphere. If you’d like to suggest a topic, please feel free to email me!
The two most disabling struggles I suffer from are widespread severe chronic pain and possibly even worse sensory issues. My symptoms and experience is vastly more intricate, of course, but those are the source of many of my troubles. They essentially mean I have to try and cope with very intense physical pain and mental/emotional distress every waking hour of my life. It’s more difficult than words can describe and I hope through this blog I can share my experience and help people to be more understanding of the disabled people in their lives.
Nothing in my writing process involves generative AI and it never will. I may use unusual language or formats but that’s entirely due to the simple fact that I’m autistic and I happen to write that way. I have no intention of discussing AI at length because it’s rather outside my scope of proper understanding but I would like to be clear that this is all my own work.
Thank you very much for reading and I hope you’ll stick around. You can follow me on bluesky (ellebelle.org) or tumblr (ellebelleleaborates) for updates whenever I post.