Your Pain Is Not Up for Debate

About this episode

This episode discusses the impact of medical trauma on women's narratives about their bodies and how to reclaim their stories.

Medical trauma isn’t always a procedure. Sometimes it’s disbelief. In this episode, we talk about what happens when women are cast as unreliable narrators of their own bodies—and how to reclaim the story. From birth injury dismissal to neurodivergent ableism, this is about power, authorship, and refusing to let someone else define your pain. You are not a faulty narrator.

People in this episode

Host: Erika Miley

Topics covered

• medical trauma
• women's health
• neurodivergent ableism
• power dynamics
• authorship
• pain narrative

Keywords

• medical trauma
• women's health
• neurodivergent
• ableism
• pain
• narrative
• birth injury
• disbelief