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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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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MangyBum 0
#20 Hey! Look at me. Sitting behind my computer commenting on how people with depression are babies. Im a big tough man and my opinion matters. Hahaha. One day, I hope a traveling band of depressed people find you on the street and kick your ass.
gravityplanx 0
#52 Hey! Look at me. Sitting behind my computer commenting on how people that talk about people with depression are babies. Im a big tough man and my opinion matters. Hahaha. One day, I hope a traveling band of internet trolls find you on the street and kick your ass.
actonthat 0
#53, srsly, what is your problem? You shouldn't be encouraging people verbally abusing people with emotional problems, and it's especially boggling since you've allegedly dealt with them. Yeah, you can get help, but it's not like you think, "Hm, I'll be happy today!" and roll out of bed and get over it. It can be years of medication and ups and downs before you get a handle on it, and many depressed people feel too hopeless to even attempt to help themselves, or they don't want to be a burden on their loved ones. But considering you've been there, you know that, right?
drunkyredneck 0
#10--i have been clinically depressed for 9 years, and i dont take "happy pills", im not suicidal or anything like that, i just have a chemical imbalance that makes me clinically depressed. I have gotten through it, and i am not on disability or anything, quite the opposite, i am a member of the army, so the fact you think that someone is faking clinical depression for 13 years makes you a moron. Google shit before you make retarded statements like that. It amazes me that idiots can find fml, but they cant seem to find Google before they type stupid shit into this.
drunkyredneck 0
Sorry, that would be number 11 i believe, not 10
mattgrif 0
I agree with your aunt, you living off of disability is rediculous. I am in a Power Wheelchair, I manage to have two part time jobs and go to college full time. Oh yes I also play Power Wheelchair Soccer. Grow up, get a job, and stop being a little bitch.
drunkyredneck 0
Agreed 57, Sometimes a job can be beneficial to the disease/disability. although, depending on the disease, they might not be a whiny bitch
medfly 2
#57, still no reason to say a person is faking a disease just to get the "huge" benefits... that's just plain rude. it's the equivalent of me saying to you: "can't you get a full time job? you can get right up that chair, you lazy bastard!" not all diseases have a wheel chair with them to make it obvious that someone really is disabled, so people with "invisible disabilities" get all that hate from the environment thinking they look perfectly normal and healthy.
cheeez4u 8
Very well spoken #59. Just because someone is not in a ******* wheel chair does not mean they are perfectly healthy. I have extremely severe arthritis and I have to use handicapped everything!! I was diagnosed at 16 ******* years old. You can only imagine the disgusting stares I get for using the power chairs at walmart. It just looks like some jackass kid playing around. What I wouldn't give to be able to work outdoors someday. On my feet.
hsmiles 0
#6, #9, #12 - Did it occur to you that you don't have a clue what the OP is going through? It doesn't matter how "accommodating" a school is "required" to be - if you're lying in bed vomiting or screaming in pain all day, you are NOT going to be able to go to school.
hsmiles 0
#57 - Perhaps the OP's DISEASE is not something that can be helped by a wheelchair. Did you think of that?