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An actual conversation I just had with a high school friend:
92 upvotes, 10 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in Chronic Illness. "An actual conversation I just had with a high school friend:"
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Anonymous 3d

I promise you eating better would not have stopped my body from producing egregious amounts of hormones to make up for the estrogen deficit I had going on 😭

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Anonymous 2d

Oh wow. At the end I’d just say “well that was great but I don’t like to interact with people who don’t understand basic medicine or science!”

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Anonymous 2d

This conversation is why I hide when I take my birth control at my dads house because I was trying to update my dad on my doctors visits and medications and my stepmom started telling me that birth control would just ruin my body and that I’d get too used to it and that is literally the point, my body is not functioning on its own, I need help. It’s the same as when I take my iron supplement because I’m anemic

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Anonymous 2d

“former friend” I hope, wtf

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Anonymous 2d

Ah yes, food and exercise will stop my ovaries from producing cysts. Why didn’t I think of that before? 😀

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2d

I have endometriosis so like if I’m not on birth control I’m on my period all the time(57%) and I’m dizzy and screaming

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2d

No, I explained to her why PCOS cannot actually be treated with “eating better and exercise” and she seems to have understood.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2d

We’re from an island with less than 50,000 people on it, with an aging population of devout Christians who for the most part believe that mental illness is just demons to be prayed away. We don’t have sex ed classes and stuff like that. Most people here don’t even know what PCOS is, so those who do tend to be misinformed about it. So I was more understanding than angry that she didn’t know any better.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2d

oh gotcha, I can def respect that 🫡 really glad she heard you out about it and updated her perspective, that’s chill. I’m just super touchy about feeling dismissed re: chronic illness stuff, but I’m also coming from a different cultural background, so it makes sense that our respective ideas of what constitutes a totally unacceptable comment might differ somewhat

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2d

I totally understand why you’d feel that way too. I probably would’ve reacted more like you if an American had said that to me. I feel like there’s much less of an excuse for someone from a country where they teach you about this stuff in school and it’s much more widely diagnosed.

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