![]() ![]() Ask Me About My Uterus also critically examines the popular understanding of endometriosis as a "white woman's disease". The book connects Norman's personal experience to a longer history of medical practitioners dismissing women's pain, for example by treating their experience of pain as " hysteria". In 2018 Norman's book Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain was published by Nation Books. ![]() Norman wrote about her experience of endometriosis, including her efforts to get doctors to take her pain seriously, for Seventeen magazine, and started curating online essays on reproductive system health into a website called Ask Me About My Uterus. She attended Sarah Lawrence College but dropped out after experiencing severe pain that was eventually diagnosed as endometriosis. Norman had a troubled home life and became an emancipated minor at age 16. She is the author of the 2018 nonfiction book Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain. ![]() Ask Me About My Uterus A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's PainĪbby Norman is an American science writer. ![]()
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