Today, while opening up to a few friends about how I was sexually abused as a child, one of them blurted "Pics or it didn't happen." How did the others react? With outrage? No, just with awkward chuckling. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, a guy made fun of sexual assault victims, and laughed when he heard they’re getting money and support. He also said I look like his next victim. I hit him, unapologetically. My friends told me to apologise, and that he’s really a great guy. No longer my friends. Talk shit, get hit. FML
Today, I told my friends I was kissed by a girl. They said "Yeah, probably by your mom." The sad thing is, they were right. FML
Today, I laughed at a joke in a group chat. No one else reacted. After five minutes, I realized I’d replied to a message from last week. I had to also pretend I hadn't noticed and sat in silence. FML
Today, I was in a support group talking about how my sister and I were raised in a cult. Never one to be outdone, the loud mouth of the group piped up and scoffed, “Oh please! If it didn’t make the news and no one died, then it wasn’t a cult!” Sorry I wasn’t murdered. It was still abusive as fuck. FML
Today, I decided to open up to my friends about losing my dad last year. To my horror, all they could do was laugh at and mock me, all because I said that he "unalived" himself. FML
Today, I was peppered with questions about my swollen eye and if I'd gotten into a fight. I couldn't bring myself to admit that I'd been brutally beaten into submission by a doorknob. FML
Today, at a mind-numbingly boring support session, everyone was talking about their hardships. One guy was talking about losing his leg in a car accident. I was half-asleep and asked without thinking, "Did you ever find it?" I almost shat my pants at the roomful of death glares that followed. FML
Today, after weeks of therapy for severe depression, my therapist thought it would be helpful to confess my deepest problems to my friends, to prove that it was alright to trust people. I did. They laughed. Hard. FML
Today, I was telling my friends a story. I added a few "embellishments" to make it more intense. One my friends piped up with, "I was with you, half of what you just said wasn't true". It's now all over Facebook and I'm known as "The Bullshitter". FML
Today, someone was making jokes and everyone started laughing, so I laughed. He then proceeded to look me dead in the eye and go, "What are you laughing at?" I started stuttering and mumbled back quietly, "I don't know, what are you laughing at?" He goes, "I'm not laughing" and then they all stared at me weird. FML
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RumpPlug 4
**** those friends, leave them.
Guy1009 15
Time for new friends.
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DeadxManxWalking 27
who needs them? you've got us. we didn't laugh.
Shafro_0 24
A similar thing happened to me when I told (what I thought was) my best friend and she just laughed so:/ I guess they're just too immature to understand but I'm here for ya OP!
idekanymorefam 3
you aren't hanging out with the right people
Setareh23 34
I think that many people tend to chuckle/laugh in high stress situations, especially if they aren't used to them. For example, when one of my best friends was injured, the other started laughing like crazy (almost to the point of tears) even though she swears she was extremely concerned/worried/scared the entire time. So if they followed up the chuckling with genuine concern and support towards you, I could MAYBE understand that a bit more. But the comment? That's not just a reflex, that's trying to make a serious situation laughable, which is pretty horrible, tactless, and insensitive imo. Fyl.
Axel5238 29
It can be infuriating, my mom laughs out of nerves in wildly inappropriate times and just apologizes but doesn't see how insulting it is when someone is trying to talk to you seriously about something. She's oblivious about a lot of things and doesn't get how now ok it is even if her intent wasn't bad.
zaidthunder1 27
I've seen the situation, people don't know how to react when they get a piece of bad news, its kind of awkward. This is true especially for friends.
Callyn 47
Your mother likely can't help it. It can be an automatic response to awkward situations. It's not that she doesn't understand that it is innappropriate but in the moment she can't formulate a coherent response and has to break the silence somehow. I would bet cashmoney that the same sort of thing happens to you from time to time.
Axel5238 29
She does know, it is and while I have stumbled when asked an awkward or unexpected question. I haven't laughed nervously or otherwise while someone was trying to give me serious news.
amsterdamgirl 20
listen. I'm akward, I never know what to say...... as long as you accept awkwardness ïll accept your's. kisses Victoria
ViviMage 40
Internet lingo aside, they want to see child rape ****? Sick bastards. You need new friends! Ones that aren't sickos. I was abused as a kid, I sympathize.
zaidthunder1 27
Think that's a bit too far, OP's friends probably didn't believe him about the story, something which is rarely discussed among friends
Algorithm 24
Not believing OP is supposed to be a better reaction?
vikky538 29
Seriously your friends are retarded and mean!!
duhitisme 9
Horrible people and **** the 247 people who said ydi. Find people you trust and realize scum are not everywhere.
amsterdamgirl 20
they suck. How many years did it take to open up to them..... 1 more chance. get them all together, open with something like : I did not want to tell you. ...
amsterdamgirl 20
tell them they suck. what you tell is true and if any don't believe you. ask them to leave and find new friends.