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Chronic Illness 18h
I hate how I have to portray myself being miserable 24/7 in order to be ‘believed’ or have my disability taken seriously. The moment I look like I’m enjoying myself, it’s like a gotcha moment “HAH! See?! You’re faking it!” Let me exist 🫩
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Anonymous 17h

ppl don’t understand when you have chronic pain you actually just cant be crying every second unfortunately, like im at 7 out of 10 pain everyday if im bawling my eyes out that is bc it is the worst pain ive ever felt but that doesnt mean when im not bawling im not in pain

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 17h

and if chronically ill ppl were rightfully crying everyday, ableists still wouldnt believe us and would just say get over it, theres no winning whatsoever

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 16h

Yup. The one time I was crying due to pain was due to my gallbladder but the surgeon insisted it was fine but eventually agreed to surgery and ended up saying that I was maybe an hour away of being septic from necrosis. So my gallbladder was literally dying and I still wasn’t believed

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