Founded Sep 2024 · Self-Employed · Remote · India
Autoimmune Support Club.
A community for people navigating chronic illness while still trying to make and do things. Because no one should have to figure this out alone.
Origin
Why It Exists.
I was diagnosed with Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura — ITP — an autoimmune disease where your body attacks its own blood platelets. The diagnosis took a long time. The support during that period was almost nonexistent.
Living with an autoimmune condition is isolating in ways that are hard to describe unless you've been there. Your condition is invisible. It's unpredictable. It's frequently dismissed by medical professionals who don't have enough time, context, or training to take it seriously. And you're often doing all of that while still trying to study, work, create things, and just be a person.
AISC exists because I needed it and it didn't exist. It's the community I would have wanted access to when I was first diagnosed — the one where people understand before you finish explaining.
Mission
"To build a space where people with autoimmune conditions can connect, be believed, find resources, and keep going — without having to do it alone."
Impact
What We've Built.
What AISC Does
More Than a Community.
The Real Problem
Medical Gaslighting Is Real.
Through 300+ patient interviews, these patterns came up again and again. AISC is designed to address all of them.
- Symptoms dismissed as anxiety, stress, or "being dramatic"
- Years-long waits for a diagnosis that should take months
- No peer community during the most isolating period of their lives
- Emotional exhaustion from having to advocate for themselves constantly
- Navigating work, school, and relationships around an invisible illness
- A space where members are believed immediately, not questioned
- Practical resources on managing life with autoimmune conditions
- Peer connections with people who genuinely understand without explanation
- Access to NGO networks and support pathways they didn't know existed
- A trained volunteer cohort to maintain community health and safety
Related Research
The ITP Project.
AISC is advocacy. But advocacy without tools only goes so far. The ITP rapid diagnostic test is the research project that came out of this work — built to shorten the diagnosis timeline that AISC members have described again and again. Provisional patent filed April 2026.