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She was startled out of her sleep. Something had woken her this time. There was a noise. Was it from the outside? She pulls off the sweaty covers and pats the night table for her flash-light and hammer. The twin-bell alarm clock ticks away just after 2 in the morning.

Years of navigating a body that was misunderstood by the medical system, and inevitably missed by me, sparked a deep curiosity about the relationship between the physical and psychological experience. I now have the privilege to study that relationship formally, because I believe that science and lived experience should inform one another. I was in my early teens when my body began raising alarms – over and over again – alarms no one else could hear.