In the summer of 2022 I’d been well enough to work part time again at my old job for about nine months, with many adjustments to my working practices and out of work life to make work possible. It was a time when my experience and understanding of the world was changing significantly, and I was learning a lot: not least, about the ableism that is threaded through our society, my employer included, but that is invisible to most abled people (and had been invisible to me before I became disabled); about how hard it is to be chronically ill and disabled in a world that isn’t designed for us; how to survive as a chronically ill, disabled working person with no medical or professional support. And also learning about myself, of course. Since becoming chronically ill, I’ve spent a lot of time wondering who I am now: if I’m the same person I was before illness. Who are we, if we can no longer do what we choose to do; what we used to do; what most other people around us can do? And so when the 100 days project Scotland came around again, this project was born: I decided to observe my outer self more closely while I interrogated my inner self; to draw a self portrait every day for 100 days, and to record in writing on each day’s portrait something that I knew to be true about myself. All in a purpose made sketchbook.