You can heal your disease and it can heal you -- Diagnosis: shifting realities -- Pigtails and knobby knees: learning to overcome -- I am so scared: why Dr. Smartphone is not your friend -- The life cycle of a doctor -- The ups and downs -- I am a cartoon character -- Love handles, moon face, and body image -- Adults say the darndest things -- Seeing the world in technicolor -- Sage -- They've always got my back -- Downward-facing dog -- I no longer fear death, nor am i inviting it in -- The disease does not define you -- Reality check.

"More than eighty health conditions are caused by autoimmune disease, with symptoms ranging from occasionally uncomfortable to debilitating or life-threatening. Emily Filmore has lived with autoimmune disease for over two decades. She shares her own journey with candor, warmth, and humor, alternating between triumphs and heartbreaking setbacks, and offering hard-won lessons on how to choose and manage you doctors...