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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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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Sorryboutthat 0
My parents always say I'm faking whenever I get sick but their just joking, it sucks that they actually think you are.
beerab 0
What a bitch- I'd have told her mind her own damn business and worry about her own loser kids and cheating husband lol. Once my mom's friend told my mom she shouldn't help me out- to which my mom replied "this coming from a woman's whose son has no job which she just paid off all his debts only for him to fill up his credit cards again, while my daughter works and goes to school and is just asking for me to cosign on a car SHE IS paying for." Shut her ass up lol.
DJLO 0
gave you a "you deserved that" because you did not specify the disease. i am living in agonizing mystery as to whether or not she was correct, and it makes me hate you.
Kandyland 12
I know how you feel. I've had doctors poking and prodding me w/ tests for years to figure out what's wrong w/ me and they recently said that they believe that I have M.S. or Parkison's. My whole family thinks I'm a hypochondriac. **** them...
XReply 0
Look, I don't doubt you have a real disease but if you can type out that sentence then you can get a job and support yourself. I know because I work in a medical company that has 10 transcriptionists. What's that? Well, they sit at home all day and type out what the doctors are saying after seeing a patient - pulls in about 40 to 60K a year. Judging from how you write you seem to have a concept of proper grammar and sentence structure so it seems you aren't mentally incapable. My brother's ex had this huge complex with her own learning disabilities and he had to break it off with her because she was convinced by her family that there was no way she would be able to support herself. She was set in that the only path for her life was to sit back and let a man take care of her every need. She is, of course, now single and depressed but seriously she has to realize just like you have to realize... just because everyone else says you can't do anything because you're disabled... doesn't mean you need to never question it. Live your life; don't make excuses.
VenomousX 0
This is both false and a very hurtful thing to say. That you would assume without knowing anything about his/her illness that she is CHOOSING to live her life that way. I too have an "Invisible" disability called Fibromyalgia (combined with chronic fatigue/mono and arthritis) that prevents me from getting a job and going to school. (Trust me, I've tried. I do not want to live this way, I have to.) There are some days where all I can do is write a few sentence on the internet then I need to lay down to recover. My point is don't assume things just because you met a person in a similar situation who handled it differently. You have no idea the daily struggles of the OP.
Topguy 0
**** them... That's really ****** up
lakergurl91 0
You should tell your whole family to HOLD YOUR NUTS!! BTW I hope that your disability doesnt kill you!! Smile Jesus loves you =)
skawky 0
i bet this kid is an 18 year old adult, has no education, no job, and no life. probably has a girlfriend over the internet who hes probably never even met. this kid needs a life, and a real girlfriend. lol!!!
PyrrhicFailure 0
FYL, if it's a debilitating disease then remember that these people are tied to you through blood and blood alone. Oh, and for all of the idiots who say that depression "ISNT A REAL ILLNESS LOLOL", try having insomnia, eating disorders, pallops in your gall bladder and stomach, cameras stuck down your throat and multiple blood tests to find said pallops, permanent nausea and repeated pains in your side. It can debilitate many people, and the affliction period is never consistent. It can be a chemical imbalance, a physical abnormality in the brain itself, or just straightforward stress. It does NOT have a maximum life span.
Catieboo123 0
I know how you feel...I am in the process of getting disability myself and there are a lot of people who don't believe me. I wish like hell I could go to school and have a regular job but it's just not possible for me. Not everyone who signs up for disability are liars, some of us really do have serious debilitating illnesses. So **** your aunt...keep fighting and hang in there:)