Today, my aunt informed me that she thinks I'm faking the debilitating disease I've had for the past 13 years. Apparently she thinks I just don't want to go to college or get a job, and that I like living on disability. She also added that my entire extended family agrees with her. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I'm incredibly sick. I can't breathe, can't walk ten steps without falling, and no one believes me. My mom just sat next to me and said, "Honey, isn't this all a bit much? Quit being dramatic, because I can't believe this." When I asked why I would fake this, my sister yelled, "Guess you can't go shopping!" I'd want to. FML
Today, I was diagnosed with a chronic pain condition. My parents seemed very sympathetic and my mother even cried. When we got home, though, they started laughing and asked if I really believed all the shit the doctor was talking about. FML
Today, my dad told me that I'm nothing but a burden because I can't work, and disability is worth nothing. It's not my fault I ended up in an abusive foster home that left me with spinal cord damage. FML
Today, I found out that my parents have always believed that every single time I have ever showed emotion, I was faking it and that I'm actually a sociopath with no feelings. I was kicked out of the theater department at my college for my poor acting skills, and they know it. FML
Today, after years of me trying to get better, I finally have to admit that I'm severely disabled, as I saw it on my assistance paperwork. FML
Today, I was told by my teacher that she had 'given up' teaching me because someone had told her I have a mental illness, and that I don't understand what she says. FML
Today, my mother topped someone's story of their child's problems by saying I'm on drugs. This resulted in people showing up to stage an intervention for me. She made the whole thing up and I've never used drugs, but no one believes me. FML
Today, my sister compared me handling the news of recently being told that I have a devastating and very possibly fatal autoimmune disease, to that of a teenager being melodramatic. FML
Today, I went to the doctor with some serious physical symptoms that amount to being effectively disabled. She didn’t even ask any questions or examine me before telling me it was all purely psychological. I barely managed to convince her to at least order some blood tests, as a formality. FML
Today, my dad completely disregards my mental health, insists mental disorders are just excuses for laziness in my generation, so even though I have crippling depression, at times he has no sympathy and will mercilessly bully me into “snapping out of it” and to "get a damn job already." FML
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Herbal_fml 0
What specific debilitating disease? Should have said the name. Then I could have googled it.
Chibi_fml 9
#06 - The OP said they suffer from a DISEASE, not a DISABILITY. There are numerous debilitating diseases out there that would prevent someone from going to work or school. It's very tactless of your aunt to have said something like that to you, particularly if you've been to the doctor. This situation is a hard FML, because it all depends on how the OP is acting... Still, FYL for having to deal with someone who can be so rude.
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Hacksaw 4
Is she a doctor? Is anyone in your extended family a doctor? No? Then they can **** off. Ignore these people and get on with your life. They ain't worth shit.
cartering 0
*actually there is quite a limit to the amount that schools/workplaces have to accomadate. For example, were I to go to school now (which is impossible do to energy levels and confusion, quite apart from safety aspects), the school would have to replace the flourescent lighting in every classroom and hall I used - as well as at least one bathroom close to those classes and halls. They'd have to assign a guide to sit with me to follow me in case I got up and left during class, or did anything strange or unusual (answered a question with a completely different answer unrelated to the topic, spoke at a different time, stood up in the middle of class, felt weird, suddenly got tired, suddenly got hungry). They'd also have to provide me transportation back to my home should any light flicker while I was on campus. Give me weeks off whenever I had my period - potentially up to two, depending on various factors. Same thing with anything stressful - ie a big project due or a significant test, as stress as just as bad as a mildly flickering light And thats just to begin with.
octopuspanda 0
i love how people assume getting disability social security is easy. My mom has had DVT (deep vein thrombosis, look it up) for twenty years aka since I was born, and it has continually gotten worse, including a second blot clot a few years ago. She had to stop working from a job she loved and couldnt even do a sit down part time job because her leg just couldnt take it. But it still took us three applications over three years, a court date, and help from our senator to get her on disability or else we were gonna have to move out of our small three bedroom house and such. its hard stuff to deal with
curryndricegirll 0
It sounds like she actually means that you're kind of using the disease as an excuse rather than trying. Meaning, you have the disease so you don't do anything to come out of that zone. Still sucks though.
G_Bug 0
Well screw her and the prissy pants she walked in on.
wholeon 0
I forgot how everyone on the internet is an idiot and an asshole... Thanks, FML, for reminding me of it. I'm sorry, OP. I get the same thing from a lot of people because I opt not to tell people what my "chronic illness" is because they would flip the **** out and go completely to the opposite end of the spectrum (i.e., call the ambulance every time I twitched). But I guess I should just quit whining, get over that brain tumor, and get a job...
wholeon 0
Cartering @ 93 & 95, I want to know what's wrong with you 'cause I'm nosy. (I'm right with you on a lot of your symptoms -- I get headaches bad enough that the light coming through the [closed] blinds is excruciating, can't turn on the tv, etc. On those days I obviously don't make it to class. Once my dumbass science professor turned on a strobe light without any warning. I am seizure-prone. THANKS A LOT, ASSHOLE.)
harlequeen 0
You know they have online colleges, right? If you can navigate the Internet well enough to locate sites like FML, you can probably go to an online school. As far as depression goes, I've know some seriously depressed people, and they did NOT get online and surf the 'net while they were depressed.
wholeon 0
Really, 103, surfing FML takes the same amount of brain power/energy/time/focus as a college course? What college are you going to, and can I enroll?
wholeon 0
Arguing with morons takes no energy. ("Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.") Unless you have actually been part of a debate team, I doubt you know the kind of work that debate entails, but I'll give you a hint--weekend competitions are included. Not sure how you're going to handle that one when you can't leave your bed.