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{{NeedsImage}} '''Alice Hattrick''' is a British writer, video producer and an associate lecturer at the London College of Fashion, and lives with [[ME/CFS]].<ref name="NS2021" /><ref name="IllFeelingsExcerpt" /> ==Early life== Alice Hattrick's mother collapsed with [[pneumonia]] which led to her developing ME/CFS when Alice was eight. Alice also became ill as a child, and was diagnosed with [[chronic fatigue syndrome]].<ref name="NS2021" /> She studied the History of Art and worked in the film industry, before studying at the Critical Writing In Art & Design at the UK's Royal College of Art.<ref name="RCA">{{Cite web | url = https://www.rca.ac.uk/study/schools/school-of-arts-humanities/writing/student-stories/alice-hattrick/ | title = Alice Hattrick | website = Royal College of Art|language=en-GB | access-date = 2022-04-09}}</ref> In 2021, Hattrick published their first book, [[Ill Feelings: stories of unexplained illness|Ill Feelings]], part memoir on ME/CFS, [[chronic illness]], and attitudes towards women with [[disability|disabilities]], and part literary criticism.<ref name="IllFeelingsExcerpt" /><ref name="TLS-review">{{Cite web | title = Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick | date = 2021-08-25| publisher = Times Literary Supplement|language=en-GB | url = https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/ill-feelings-alice-hattrick-book-review-jonathan-taylor/ | last = Taylor | first = Jonathan | author-link = | access-date = 2022-04-09|quote=}}</ref> ==ME/CFS== Alice Hattrick was diagnosed with [[chronic fatigue syndrome]] as a child, their ― Alice Hattrick uses their/she pronouns ― symptoms as a child included common [[pediatric myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome|childhood ME]] symptoms: * [[abdominal pain|stomach ache]]s * [[headache]]s that lasted all day * [[sleepiness]] during school break times * [[pain]] in their arms and legs after Physical Education (P.E.) classes.<ref name="NS2021" /> Despite being diagnosed at a children's hospital, and growing up with a mother disabled by ME/CFS, Hattrick was not "fully convinced" of their diagnosis as a child.<ref name="NS2021"/><ref name="IllFeelingsExcerpt">{{Cite web | date = Aug 5, 2021 | url = https://granta.com/ill-feelings/ | title = Excerpt from Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick | first = Alice | last = Hattrick| publisher = Fitzcarraldo Editions|via=GRANTA | access-date = 2022-04-09}}</ref> {{Quote|text=It's still an impossible diagnosis—too serious to be fake, too subjective to be real | author= —Alice Hattrick on ME/CFS<ref name="NS2021">{{Cite web | date = Oct 7, 2021 | url = https://www.newstatesman.com/the-culture-interview/2021/10/society-is-ableist-alice-hattrick-on-gender-chronic-illness-and-long-covid | title = "Society is ableist": Alice Hattrick on gender, chronic illness and long Covid | first = Ellen | last = Peirson-Hagger| publisher = New Stateman {{!}} The Culture Interview | access-date = 2022-04-09}}</ref>}} ==Talks and interviews== * Oct 7, 2021, [https://www.newstatesman.com/the-culture-interview/2021/10/society-is-ableist-alice-hattrick-on-gender-chronic-illness-and-long-covid "Society is ableist": Alice Hattrick on gender, chronic illness and long Covid] - New Stateman: The Culture Interview *Sept 30, 2021, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDWYs8SvnRg Ill Feelings: Stories of Unexplained Illness, with Alice Hattrick in conversation with Abi Palmer] - YouTube ==Articles== *Feb 2017, [https://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/ill-feelings/ Ill Feelings] - The White Review ==Books== *2021, [[Ill Feelings: stories of unexplained illness]] ::alternative title: Ill Feelings ==Online presence== * [https://www.twitter.com/alicehattrick Twitter] * Facebook * [https://www.instagram.com/alicehattrick Instagram] * LinkedIn * [http://www.alicehattrick.co.uk/ Website/Blog] (inactive, Apr 2022) * YouTube ==See also== *[[Ill Feelings: stories of unexplained illness]] ==Learn more== * [https://www.thecrackmagazine.com/view-editorial/7539 Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick] - The Crack magazine *[https://www.davidhigham.co.uk/authors-dh/alice-hattrick/ Alice Hattrick] - David Higham Associates * [https://granta.com/ill-feelings/ Excerpt from Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick] - GRANTA ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:People with ME, CFS, and/or FMS]] [[Category:British famous people with ME, CFS, and/or FMS]] [[Category:Famous people with ME, CFS, and/or FMS]] [[Category:Authors]] [[Category:Psychological paradigm critics]]
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