I’m tired. I’m not sure if it’s the weather changing or the days getting shorter, or the seemingly endless IEP triennial meetings lately, but I am flat out exhausted. What’s worse is I’m irritated and guilty about being exhausted, which is making me weepy and giddy and surly. It’s like I’m having my first hypomanic episode – 10 minutes ago I wanted to call up my friends and get them all together to go out to dinner tonight, and now I feel like crawling into my bed with a glass of milk and a book.

This week is Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week, and the blogging community is getting the word out that there are millions of people around the world that struggle with a chronic illness, often in silence. Many are answering questions about the 30 things about their illness that most people don't know.  I've changed it up a bit - here are the 30 things about my son Tim's invisible illness.