By Anonymous - 15/04/2009 05:37 - United States

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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Herbal_fml 0

What specific debilitating disease? Should have said the name. Then I could have googled it.

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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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Sorryboutthat 0

My parents always say I'm faking whenever I get sick but their just joking, it sucks that they actually think you are.

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beerab 0

What a bitch- I'd have told her mind her own damn business and worry about her own loser kids and cheating husband lol. Once my mom's friend told my mom she shouldn't help me out- to which my mom replied "this coming from a woman's whose son has no job which she just paid off all his debts only for him to fill up his credit cards again, while my daughter works and goes to school and is just asking for me to cosign on a car SHE IS paying for." Shut her ass up lol.

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DJLO 0

gave you a "you deserved that" because you did not specify the disease. i am living in agonizing mystery as to whether or not she was correct, and it makes me hate you.

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Kandyland 12

I know how you feel. I've had doctors poking and prodding me w/ tests for years to figure out what's wrong w/ me and they recently said that they believe that I have M.S. or Parkison's. My whole family thinks I'm a hypochondriac. **** them...

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XReply 0

Look, I don't doubt you have a real disease but if you can type out that sentence then you can get a job and support yourself. I know because I work in a medical company that has 10 transcriptionists. What's that? Well, they sit at home all day and type out what the doctors are saying after seeing a patient - pulls in about 40 to 60K a year. Judging from how you write you seem to have a concept of proper grammar and sentence structure so it seems you aren't mentally incapable. My brother's ex had this huge complex with her own learning disabilities and he had to break it off with her because she was convinced by her family that there was no way she would be able to support herself. She was set in that the only path for her life was to sit back and let a man take care of her every need. She is, of course, now single and depressed but seriously she has to realize just like you have to realize... just because everyone else says you can't do anything because you're disabled... doesn't mean you need to never question it. Live your life; don't make excuses.

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VenomousX 0

This is both false and a very hurtful thing to say. That you would assume without knowing anything about his/her illness that she is CHOOSING to live her life that way. I too have an "Invisible" disability called Fibromyalgia (combined with chronic fatigue/mono and arthritis) that prevents me from getting a job and going to school. (Trust me, I've tried. I do not want to live this way, I have to.) There are some days where all I can do is write a few sentence on the internet then I need to lay down to recover. My point is don't assume things just because you met a person in a similar situation who handled it differently. You have no idea the daily struggles of the OP.

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Topguy 0

**** them... That's really ****** up

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lakergurl91 0

You should tell your whole family to HOLD YOUR NUTS!! BTW I hope that your disability doesnt kill you!! Smile Jesus loves you =)

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skawky 0

i bet this kid is an 18 year old adult, has no education, no job, and no life. probably has a girlfriend over the internet who hes probably never even met. this kid needs a life, and a real girlfriend. lol!!!

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PyrrhicFailure 0

FYL, if it's a debilitating disease then remember that these people are tied to you through blood and blood alone. Oh, and for all of the idiots who say that depression "ISNT A REAL ILLNESS LOLOL", try having insomnia, eating disorders, pallops in your gall bladder and stomach, cameras stuck down your throat and multiple blood tests to find said pallops, permanent nausea and repeated pains in your side. It can debilitate many people, and the affliction period is never consistent. It can be a chemical imbalance, a physical abnormality in the brain itself, or just straightforward stress. It does NOT have a maximum life span.

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Catieboo123 0

I know how you feel...I am in the process of getting disability myself and there are a lot of people who don't believe me. I wish like hell I could go to school and have a regular job but it's just not possible for me. Not everyone who signs up for disability are liars, some of us really do have serious debilitating illnesses. So **** your aunt...keep fighting and hang in there:)

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