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Hidden curriculum

From the app’s English Help & Guide · Reference release 1.0.13

Chronic illness has an in-group vocabulary and a set of unwritten rules that nobody explains — boom-and-bust, the energy envelope, what 'spoons' means, why someone might cancel five minutes before a plan, what a flare actually feels like from the inside.

The hidden curriculum is nineteen short capsules across five categories: Doctors & medicine, School & SEND, Family & relationships, Systems & benefits, and Looking after you. They catch a newer carer up on the things experienced carers learned the hard way.

It's reading material, not a quiz. Browse it in your own time from any person's detail page.

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