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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ozymandias_fml 0
Maybe you should think about acting lessons.
Weird_Gurl7504 0
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they r on to u!!! run away child!!!
Autoshot 9
So ok EVERYONE is wrong and YOU are right. Surrrreee...
Herbal_fml 0
What specific debilitating disease? Should have said the name. Then I could have googled it.
lulzy 0
what a bitch! that's horrible! Dont mind them, they're idiots.
goathumpy 0
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Oh shit they're on to you..FYL for sure.
The_9th_Doctor 18
you're a horrible person
rukusrazor 0
Well, when so many other people do it all across the U.S. just so they can sit on the ******* couch and watch their "stories" everyday.. It's not surprising to hear this.
ozymandias_fml 0
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Considering how accommodating colleges are required to be *by law* for disabilities, it is hard to imagine one that would prevent you from going to college. Are you merely a head in a jar or something?
seetei 24
There are many things that can stop you, I suffer from a severe disability too (JRA) meaning I am left in chronic crippling pain, in all of my large joints, often (like now) leaving me unable to walk, stand or even get out of bed sometimes for months in a row. This has caused me to struggle with attending school for years and in the ten years since being diagnosed I have attended a total of about 4 years worth of school (when adding the days together). It is very possible to have a diseases that stops you from being able to go to college because it is a real worry for me if I will be able to. You should try to be more understanding of people and their struggles, living with this isn't easy and what your doing doesn't help either.
raabhimself 0
I may be biased but I watched my family abuse disability insurance. To top it all off they were telling me how I didn`t work hard enough to provide for them, I was working full time and attending college. The best cure to anything is to get out, and keep you`re mind off it, if you can`t do that you`re not helping yourself at all. I don`t know whats more enjoyable, sitting around doing nothing, or making an effort to do something.
rttr 18
Damn dude, you could have written am FML.
genYnot 19
Sometimes you just can't go and do stuff to get your mind off of a disability. Think Cystic fibrosis would allow you to do that? And several of the more severe auto immune disorders that lock joints completely and cause extreme pain?
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.
ozymandias_fml 0
#8 -- The disease may be the cause, but any deviation from a normal standard of life that requires special accommodation is considered a disability. Diabetes falls under this. It is a disease, and creates a need for special accommodations. My college recently had to install 'Sharps' containers in the dorms due to accommodating diabetes students. If you have a legitimate illness, and have to miss class for treatment, the professors are *required by law* to allow you extra time to make up the material -- even tests. Any disease that would prevent you from going to college, or getting a job would have to be a *severe* disability, by definitions of the words.
Mads_1234 28
Something like diabetes is debilitating, but it can't stop you from going to college or getting a job, you just have to be more careful than most people.
x_eyebrows 0
You need to slap a hoe. I have family member who is dependent on disability, and she would much rather be physically able to have a job than live on government money.