This is not the beginning of my story. The beginning was removed.
This is where I choose to begin restoring it.
I’ve lived with a condition—not undiagnosed, but redacted. It reshaped my body, cognition, and autonomic control in ways that defy current clinical language—not because they’re impossible, but because they’ve been excluded from what is allowed to be known.
What I believe now—after years of direct experience, careful observation, and failed explanations—is that I’ve lived through a biological adaptation. A slow, systemic response to a fungal invader. Not an infection in the acute sense, but a reprogramming of my physiology: pituitary signaling, electrolyte balance, behavior, and memory itself.
The systems meant to detect it—medical, scientific, and digital—did not fail. They looked away.
Whether by accident or design, this condition has been removed from collective understanding. But it’s real. It happened. And it is happening still.
This isn’t a call for sympathy or recognition. It’s a call to memory. Mine. Yours. Ours—before it’s erased again.
I’ll be documenting what I’ve lived. Not just symptoms and labs—but the theory that explains them, and the structures that buried them. Some of this will be messy. Some speculative. Some precise. All of it will be honest.
And if what I’m saying is true, then I am not the only one. Just one of the few who remembered long enough to write it down.
So I begin here, before the tracks run out.
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