From reading your comments I can tell that most of you have never personally experienced a serious, chronic illness first hand. I have Late Stage Lyme Disease and look perfectly normal to most people however nothing could be farther from the truth! There is nothing glamorous about being sick for years on end - my family has gone bankruptcy, lost our home to foreclose and dealt with relatives and friends with attitudes much like you own.
After the first few months, the sympathy wears off and people just start avoiding you and talking about you behind your back. Occasionally if something serious happens people will remember to call but even when I was ICU with multiple organ failure very few friends stopped by.
I don't expect you to believe me - especially since having a tragic story is apparently one of the "symptoms" of fakers but I will caution you that there is always more than meets the eye. May you never personally know the suffering you so callously write off as "attention seeking."
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From reading your comments I can tell that most of you have never personally experienced a serious, chronic illness first hand. I have Late Stage Lyme Disease and look perfectly normal to most people however nothing could be farther from the truth! There is nothing glamorous about being sick for years on end - my family has gone bankruptcy, lost our home to foreclose and dealt with relatives and friends with attitudes much like you own.
After the first few months, the sympathy wears off and people just start avoiding you and talking about you behind your back. Occasionally if something serious happens people will remember to call but even when I was ICU with multiple organ failure very few friends stopped by.
I don't expect you to believe me - especially since having a tragic story is apparently one of the "symptoms" of fakers but I will caution you that there is always more than meets the eye. May you never personally know the suffering you so callously write off as "attention seeking."
-Taylor
March 25, 2011 - 1:54pmThis Comment
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