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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Thanksgiving
Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
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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Put_u_on_blast 0
If you' re not faking cut ties with your family and make new friends just because you share the same blood don' t mean that you are family she is a snake and so is the rest of the hyenas
noobeater5 0
hey, dont mind these assholes, tell them to stfu and learn to accept
cecilia_weasley 0
Well what are you waiting for? Cut her off. Seriously.
melbelle89 0
Okay, so there have been a lot of comments on this, and I doubt you will ever actually read this, but I know how you feel. I have a debilitating disease as well, and have had it for a long time. Since birth. I will say that there are way too many people out there that are skeptical of people with health issues like us, because theres a lot of bad shit that people do. like milk the system, or are lazy and cheat their way through life..but not EVERYONE is like that. Pay no mind to what your aunt says, because it is so easy for one to pass judgement on others; and just remember that she is not in your shoes, and that she might feel differently if she were to be. so..**** her *shrugs* I personally, have been in the hospital constantly throughout my life and at times, I have been told that I should not be in pain, or that my pain isn't even possible and have had little to no support from doctors, family, friends. (don't get me wrong, I have people that care, it's just tough sometimes) and I have been attempting to go to college, and while I am in an accelerated diploma program that is only 7 months long, that i am almost halfway through-I got sick recently and missed, and I found out that eventually my brain is probably going to start pulling away from my skull and on top of all that, I am being dropped from the program. sooo yeah, there is the whole Americans with Disabilites act and whatnot, but they really do not accomadate enough, FML.
Eddyoftheabc 0
Sometimes it's just hard to accommodate all debilitating diseases. Maybe this poster used 'debilitating disease' because it was rare and didn't want to confuse the readers. My sister has been in and out of the hospital since she was five with a rare blood disease I can hardly pronounce. About ten years later, one of the dozens of doctors my parents went to see with her thought she might be faking it; my parents laughed in the doctor's face. Some advice for the F'ed life; maybe your extended family doesn't believe you, and maybe that comes from not living with you and watching your struggles. But not everyone can be like that if your disease is real. Any family and friends that you have right now- real friends and family that are supporting you- keep them close. My sister is still balancing school and the hospital today, but if anything will help get her through, it's the support.
Mr_Muffin 0
#82 Actually, it's you who's missing the point. The analogy between a gun held on your head and depression is that in neither case is there a physical barrier preventing you from moving your legs. Of course if you get shot then you can't, but until you do, your legs are free to move. And since we know that practically no one will move in such a situation, we can conclude that mental obstacles can be very disabling. In other words, you needn't have your legs broken to be unable to move. You are also right about getting out of the bed. It is what people should try to do. But the point, that you're once again missing, is that they can't. They don't want to, not because it's nice to stay in the bed, but because everything is meaningless and hell to them. Every once in a while someone suggests that people with depression should try some exercise and breathing fresh air to make themselves feel better, but the fact is that just isn't that easy. Don't believe me? Ask the certified psychiatrists. They're the pros in this field. I hope no one misunderstands me though, people should do their best to get up and do something. But what people like Ozymandias need to understand that it's not quite so easy. Depression is not just feeling bad. It's when your highs are normal people's lows and when your lows are at the rock bottom.
jt8787 0
i agree with the general consensus in the room that this is horrible but under the circumstances of the disability you have tho. which you really shouldve mentioned in a post like this one. cuz you were so vague it could mean relatively anything. pls do tell wat it is exactly.
lepontneuf 0
you probably are faking it if your entire community is confronting you about it. not "faking it" but like using it as an excuse for things you're afraid of dealing with confronting. what could that be?
Leilanibear_8594 0
Wow she's a major bitch. If it were me I would say "Yea and I don't believe that your really that nice, and your entire extended family agrees with me"
bobdole12122 0
ya there really is no way that they can take that from nothing... i mean an injured pinky doesn't stop you from going to work. what's your problem? we need that to make a fair judgement