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Though Aimee Rouski, 19, has seen plenty of wonderful body positivity on her feed recently, she hadn't seen much about invisible illnesses, she explained in her May 25 Facebook post that's since gone viral. Rouski has Crohn's, a disease that affects the entire digestive tract, and decided to post selfies showcasing it.

While some live normally with Crohn's, Rouski does not: "My Crohn's has left me with a permanent ileostomy, no large intestine, colon, rectum, anus, or inner thigh muscles as they were used for plastic surgery on my wounds," she explains, but by looking at her you'd never know she'd been through anything.

What she writes next strikes hard for me (Are you there, reader? I, too, am a Crohnsie.), though what she says applies to everyone ever. "I've always been okay with the stuff that has happened to me," she explains, "but some people have real difficulties accepting these things so I just want to say this."

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It's not that I'm ashamed of my disease or the physical effects its had on my body, it's that I don't know how people are going to react when I tell them I've got X (literal, figurative, etc.) shit going on, so I never tell them the whole story the way Rouski casually just did. She's right — people have trouble accepting things when other people make them feel weird about the stuff they have to accept, and alas! Historically, people think poop (or a bag filled with poop) is gross.

It's not. And that's why this selfie from this girl who is way braver than I am is being shared thousands of times. I'm telling myself you the shit that comes with invisible illnesses is not gross, this badass teen is telling you that, and the thousands who've commented on her tell-all selfies are confirming that as you read:

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Rouski concludes: "No one will know [about your illness] unless you tell them. People who know will still love you and still find you beautiful. Your illness is nothing to be ashamed or embarrassed about." So don't judge a book by its cover. The book might end up being shitty (shit-filled?), but it's not your place to decide that before reading it. Or seeing its half-naked selfies on Facebook. Whatever. 💩

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