Balancing Health and Social Life: How Do You Do It?

Not fully no, I struggle with staying with people, there's always a part of me that's just kinda detached and when I'm super stressed / overwhelmed it let's me leave for months & not contact everyone.

I totally understand this. I’d just like two really good friends so we could hang out, go see a film, grab a bite to eat etc. and just be able to put the world to right over a drink.

No lol

Absolutely not. When my health was becoming too much in high school, I wasn't able to attend class much which was the only time I saw or got to chat with my classmates (I didn't talk to any outside of school or use social media like that). It didn't take long for others to start seeing me as a burden and not bothering to talk to me. They'd just look at me all pitiful while passing in the hallway. When a person has issues that can't easily be resolved by "working hard on yourself," "taking medication," "praying" and aren't obvious just from looking at them... many people tend to check out and not see the point in interacting. Which I get to a degree tbh, but it still hurts to experience

Somewhat. I'm autistic and have ADHD, so if I talk to others who are similar, it's easier to relate. The general public, however, has never truly gotten me. As an aside, I see "pseudotumor cerebri" listed, and just wanted to say, I know what that is! My mom also has that! I almost never see that anywhere.

Some friends have adapted to my health decline, and I am amazingly grateful for their involvement in my life, and all the accessible social activities we do together. I have lost other friends who haven't been able to adapt, which has been sad, but also my capacity for people is smaller, I can't keep up with as many friends as I used to have anyway. I might have to move away in a few months, and I'm really scared about not being able to go out and meet people as someone with chronic physical and mental health problems though. I think that would be really hard for me.

This summer we got together for my mom's memorial, and my siblings wanted to get a big house together, but we couldn't find one with a single floor that could accommodate us all, and my sister and I both struggle with stairs (rheumatoid arthritis and chronic fatigue make stairs hard), so we just each got our own place.

Depends on the people. My siblings have all been understanding, because my mom and one of my older sisters have a lot of health issues, so I wasn't the first. My friends.... The ones that I'm closest to understand and have always been accommodating. But! My friends and family they even understand but don't have health issues themselves, sometimes need to be shown or reminded that I need accommodations from them. I'm the youngest of 8 siblings, and only two of us have health issues. The other 6 don't always think about our health things, so we make sure to bring it up.