{"id":2005,"date":"2026-05-14T14:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/with-ms-i-want-to-be-my-best-self-advocate-not-my-worst-self-adversary\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:00:40","slug":"with-ms-i-want-to-be-my-best-self-advocate-not-my-worst-self-adversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/with-ms-i-want-to-be-my-best-self-advocate-not-my-worst-self-adversary\/","title":{"rendered":"With MS, I want to be my best self-advocate, not my worst self-adversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/columns\/2026\/05\/14\/ms-want-be-best-self-advocate-not-worst-adversary\/\" title=\"With MS, I want to be my best self-advocate, not my worst self-adversary\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Image-from-iOS-5-800x300.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"This banner image for Ben Hofmeister&#039;s column &quot;Chairborne&quot; features a wheelchair at left and a beach scene at right.\" style=\"margin: auto;margin-bottom: 15px;max-width: 100%\" data-wp-pid=\"109440\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have a bad habit. OK, several, but I&#8217;m only going to address one of them today. I tend to have a lot of imaginary debates or arguments in my head where I anticipate another person&#8217;s points, counterpoints, and questions to craft a perfect response. It isn&#8217;t an entirely bad habit, I suppose. After all, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/columns\/2026\/05\/14\/ms-want-be-best-self-advocate-not-worst-adversary\/\">With MS, I want to be my best self-advocate, not my worst self-adversary<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\">Multiple Sclerosis News Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/columns\/2026\/05\/14\/ms-want-be-best-self-advocate-not-worst-adversary\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a bad habit. OK, several, but I&#8217;m only going to address one of them today. I tend to have a lot of imaginary debates or arguments in my head where I anticipate another person&#8217;s points, counterpoints, and questions to craft a perfect response.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,15,9,8,13,14,12,10],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multiple-sclerosis-research","tag-brain-repair","tag-marburg-type-ms","tag-ms","tag-multiple-sclerosis","tag-myelin","tag-neuroregeneration","tag-oligodendrocyte","tag-remyelination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}