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Navigating Ehlers-Danlos and Neurodiversity
What we offer
Zebra Crossings is a dedicated space for individuals with Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes + Neurodivergence, sometimes combined with complex health issues and those who know us. Ishtar strives to provide educational resources and hope for those navigating unique challenges. Their mission is to foster understanding, promote acceptance, and empower Zebras to live their lives fully and authentically via accurate information.
Ishtar's Blog
Read a personal account and shared experiences from an individual living at the crossroads of EDS and life.
(AI avatar based upon Ishtar in 2013.)
Awareness shop
Support Ishtar's work with products designed to start conversations and spread understanding about invisible illness.
About Zebra Crossings Project
In medical school, doctors are taught, "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras." But for those living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes and neurodivergence, we are the zebras.
WHAT ARE THE SYMBOLS?
A zebra is an individual with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. “Sometimes when you hear hoofbeats, it really is a zebra.”
Ishtar Adds:
A teal zebra is a Neurodivergent individual with Ehler's-Danlos Syndromes.
Schrödinger's Zebra: Ehlers-Danlos, with other conditions that mask the EDS, making it even more difficult to see, and thusly more difficult to diagnose (re: Schrödinger's cat). That doesn't mean that it isn't there.
Zebra Crossings: The Support, Access & Info that we need to cross otherwise isolating and potentially dangerous roads. It also symbolizes EDS crossing with other conditions.
Contact
ZebraCrossingsProject at gmail