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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fmlragdoll 0
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Just please tell me it's not depression; or some BS like that; cause if you've had it for thirteen years. you are faking it by now
CandyCanenomer 4
No, my mom has depression since she was 16. She's now 33
birdofparadise 16
You obviously have no idea what actual depression can do. My aunt has bipolar disorder and depression, and even though she and her family qualifies, she refuses to go on disability or take any money from the government because of it. You are an ignoramus if you believe that real depression is just "bs". Get out of your parents' basement, and take some time to learn a thing or two before you go shooting your mouth off. By the way, that's not how you use a semicolon. Just felt like showing you just how ignorant you can be.
PTERONOPHOBIA 0
Um, sounds to me like the OP DOES want to go to school and have a job and a normal life, #9. In this case debilitating disease probably doesnt mean "oh noes I have to take medicine every day" more like "oh noes I can hardly get up in the morning without cringing"
elfako 0
I don't believe. If you had a real disease you would have told us what it was. I also don't see how being disabled has kept you from going to college as other people have said. YDI unless you tell us what your disease is.
ozymandias_fml 0
#12 ... so? The schools are required to accommodate in pretty much the entire western world, assuming it is a legitimate disease/disability.
Mr_Muffin 0
fmlragdoll doesn't know what he's talking about.
x3chibi 0
Um, OP doesn't have to give every detail to satisfy your curiousity. No one deserves a disease, big or small. It's obviously the OP isn't thrilled about having it. Why do commenters act like they know OP is faking. If it is fake, the OP wouldn't have thought, FML I've been found out. Sorry you have to go through this with lack of support and your aunt could've approached you in a better manner rather than to admonish you with guilt. Like prev commenters, try to deal with living as normal as you can. Btw, if OP has to 'fake', it's obviously more than having to take medicine for it.
missyhumms 0
Some of you guys are being total jerks. Maybe the disease is embarrassing? I'm sorry poster, that's really upsetting. What I don't get is when it's something the poster truly can't help people picking 'you deserved that'.
ItsZidane 0
#15 doesn't know what he's talking about
libertyprime 0
#16 says, "The Internet: Serious Business."
MEF62 5
lol
Mr_Muffin 0
#18 You mean that depression cannot last 13 years and that it is just bullshit?