At 16 years old, Michael Sharkey was diagnosed with Inflammatory Bowel Disease, a digestive disease that is all but invisible to the naked eye. We talk about what it’s like to live with this disease, why I will never know what it’s like to be affected by IBD, and why her word of the year is “effort.”

Find Michael at @michaelsharkey.

Find Chris at @thechrisderosa.

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