SICKNESS OF SEPARATION Autoimmunity is not the body attacking itself. In most cases, autoimmunity is the body responding to danger signals from the world around us and within us. We live in a world that is quick to polarize and cast things through a lens of violence. We do this with nature, social issues, and biology. The separation cast between ourselves and the world around us, the world within us, breeds its own kind of sickness. Bridging that divide can be life changing. I was diagnosed with