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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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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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Comments (169)
1947Chevy 17
It might be time to re-evaluate your friendships. For the ones who chuckled that could have been a reflex response but for the one who made the comment I would probably have hurt had I been in your shoes thats not something that should ever be joked about and especially when it's somebody opening up
lucklessinVA 9
When I tried to give my parents just a piece of the reasoning behind my suicide attempt, they laughed too. It's awful, and I'm really sorry, OP. Some people may just have no clue how to react to those kinds of things.
ObviousBooty 14
Are you ******* KidDing me? What are these friends of yours? Twelve year olds trying to sound cool and who grew up with insensitive parents? Sorry, OP. If I'd have been there, that "friend" of yours would have been knocked out or worse.
obeykaitlyn 25
I'm sorry about what happened, OP. But I don't think you should be friends with people that are so insensitive
cynthiavaldez 5
you deserve better, those are not friends....
scottishoatmeal 22
**** your friends. They sound too immature
Xamry14 10
Some people Jair don't know how to deal with serious shit so they go to humor. It normally leads to disasters like this. I used to be that way before I became more socially aware
Xamry14 10
Shit. I hate typos.
L3G3ND4RYB4D4SS 6
There are some things that u should never say to anyone, like this for example
suznmar 16
Be forgiving. This is an uncomfortable subject for many people and they may just not know how to react.
heyLaddieHey 18
Are they idiots? Yes. But they probably just didn't know how to react. It's not that they don't care about you or what happened to you; it's impossible to find the words to say when someone trusts you enough to confess it.