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This! ☹️

I will attest on behalf of my wife.

Turn signals seem to be against the law in WNC.

Only those who lack a brain would believe in such fantasies...

Autoimmune sufferer, I completely feel this. OP is absolutely right - there are days you simply. Can. Not. Function. and "mood" and "attitude" have NOTHING to do with what is physically happening, and yet people... and that's all I'm going to say. People.

People who think incurable diseases don't exist are afraid of not having control over everything in their life. If only they knew how little control they really have...

My wife has chronic Lyme disease (similar symptom profile to MS). Soooo many people that deserve punches in the face for the line... "but you look fine." I'm sorry for your experiences. Sigh!

Fibromyalgia, arthritis, degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis, sciatica, diabetes and CIPN (chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy), in remission from breast cancer. "You're too young to be that sick ", "you don't look sick ", "the pain can't be that bad " (I'm allowed 6 Norco 10 a day), "just get up move around more " (can't walk or stand more than 10 minutes w/o pain). All of my medical issues are "invisible" and started when I was about 45. I've actually been yelled at in the grocery store for using the scooters. I once lifted my shirt to show my mastectomy to prove I wasn't faking, was still mostly bald from chemo, looked like c**p. First outing after Dr's OK. Nothing will cure my issues, ever. Don't presume to know what I need to do to get better. And don't judge unless you have the same problems. Be glad you don't.

God does have a plan. He plans for each and every one of us to die. And He's quite serious about it, too.

Oh, if only people who said "You *just* need to stay *positive*." could be kicked in the face. Positivity is what helps you in an interview.

Those people are f*****g gross that responded to you like that. As you are the one with the disease I'm sure you and your doctor have talked about it in length vs what these webmd weekend warriors have to say.

Chronis illnesses are a b***h. There are good days and bad days. People will never understand that what works for some may not work for others. Pushy optimism is annoying and unhelpful.

That "God has a plan" is the worst of them. If that F**kers plan involves thousands of people suffering from uncurable diseases and disabilities, that´s just messed up beyond believe.

People like this have no idea what they are saying. God does not have a plan or you are not dedicated to your diagnosis. You are chronically Ill and my heart goes out to you.

Nevertheless you seem to be very on the attack.

The "god has a plan" one is ridiculous quite frankly. Trying a different diet won't hurt you though. I can honestly admit though, that after having cancer twice as a kid, that I would never EVER touch chemo again. That s**t is absolutely HORRIBLE, and it wouldn't surprise me if that made the OP worse honestly. Not only does it kill all the bad stuff in your body, it kills all the good stuff too.

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Chronic illnesses are exhausting. I have M.S. and Meniere's disease, both mild, but they take so much away from life.

This sounds terrible. And a treatment that works for one person might not work for another. If there was a universal cure I think every patient would take it and there'd be no one left suffering from the illness. Good luck to everyone struggling and suffering

yeah, apparently, God's plan is to let like 5000 children starve to death every day.

I have atopic dermatitis and hashimoto, I feel this with OP and wish them and any fellow sufferer the best!

Boy, I am really sorry you got pummelled in the replies. The only response to your story should be, I am so sorry, I wish I could help.

It's not in big pharma's best interests to cure a lot of these illnesses. It's more profitable to keep you on expensive drugs to help alleviate the condition..........

As a person who has an autoimmune disease ( Sarcoid) with no treatment or cure. The treatment will mask the symptoms but wrecks havoc on your body. PLUS health anxiety I just don't tell anyone I have something wrong with me. If my joints are hurting I say I must have twisted wrong when I am out of breath I say allergies. It's the disbelief of people & " advice " so I just keep my mouth shut .

I had to inform my father that if he didn't place my grandfather in a proper care facility I would contact the authorities. Elder abuse is an atrocity!!!

Because cats are magical creatures worthy of worship. But seriously their purr is at s vibration believed to have calming properties, this is why a cat in pain or under stress will sometimes purr.

Anyone who STILL believes vaccines cause autism should be sterilized

❌ The wages are stagnant even though corporations report record profits. ✅ The wages are stagnant BECAUSE corporations report record profits.

And then people say "You're just lazy, try harder."

Ignored by successive governments worldwide, actions substituted by lipservice, sorry kids you inherit a burnt out husk

I first read it like, 🧅 are good for workers...🤦🏽‍♂️

Another thing is that people act like it’s so easy to just stop seeking validation or worrying about what others think of you. It’s. Not. F*****g. Easy

I like this :) it’s like - if we wanted to prove the sky was blue, how would we go about doing that? We’d run an experiment (say, a bunch of people looking at the sky and recording what colour they see). Then we’d share the details (guess what, everyone saw blue!) and come to a conclusion (the sky is probably blue). And there would still be people fighting it and saying “why would you blindly trust science like that you idiots” and all sorts of cringy stuff. Maybe someday we’ll find out the sky is actually Blorange and we just don’t have the eye receptors to see Blorange. Stay open-minded and always be willing to learn and change your mind! Blorange is still Blorange whether you believe in it or not.

Why is it depressing that there's no "meaning" to life? We create our own meaning.

I honestly called it a unicorn fish because I forgot the name

Yes, one can always tell people who've never been in the higher tax bracket - they worry about being worse off if they get a raise.

Most of us are don't have an interesting enough life to be spied on all the time. What will they see, honestly?

And OCD isn't just organizing your room ten times a day. I have frequent problems like when I twitch one foot I must twitch the other, and I also try to avoid certain words like "just". Also I don't ever want to clean my room because I know where everything is, even though it's messy.

“How do you think your premiums work?” “That’s different!” 🤔

I get these sometimes, particularly from dreams. One I remember was when I was around 10, I had a dream where I walk into my backyard. There was a table full of items. I reach into an open shoebox, and pull out a business card for a shoe store. I remember as a kid I found the dream to be weird, and that dream stuck with me for awhile. I would occasionally remember it. A few years later, there was a major earthquake. There was an inspector going through our house check for damages, so we had to move stuff out of the house. I was bored, so I was walking the house, and I went into the backyard. Déjà vu. Really freaked me out. Apparently that shoebox was originally stored in my dad's closet for years, from his old job he hadn't worked for a decade.

There are always (unnecessary) trends, and not all of them need to keep away from gluten? And when they cheat/change the diet people start to wonder? Or just the ordinary story of haters, "I'm not celiac, so neigher are you!" or "No one was celiac when I was little, so there can't be no advancement in healtcare/understanding of the human body after 1960!", or, "everybode have problem with gluten, man up"... 🤷‍♂️

With a bit of luck, you may be accompanied by ducks and geese on the country roads where I live, taking advantage of the slipstream of the cars...imagine, looking out of your side windows, gently startled by 'em...you don't need to panic because they won't hit your car or something ...👍🏼...it must be like swimming with dolphins, I suppose...

And you "rerecord" memories each time you recall them

In Canada, the rules are now that no matter what your child's age is they must be in a booster seat if they are min. 4'9" or at least 9 years old. All kids under 6 years old, and under 40lbs have to be in a car seat. The biggest struggle is convincing older family members who refuse to update their knowledge of child safety because "back in the good ol' days we rode in the box of the truck and we survived."

Yes, nuclear power is clean, plentiful, cheap, and efficient. What is NOT clean, cheap, and efficient is the thousands of tons of nuclear waste sitting around because we don’t know what to do with it. But nuclear waste is indeed plentiful.

I mean, massive ships exist, so I don't see why not.

One of my kids has this. I don't know if there is duch thing as hyperphantasia but if there is I lean that way. I find is so asy to picture things to the smell, taste etc that I feel like I am there or am holding something.

I finally had one where I became aware I was dreaming. I knew I could wake up easily so I had to be careful to stay in the dream state, Everything around me was psychedelically colorful and I could feel the ground beneath my feet. Then I was like, "I can do anything! What should I do?" So I tried flying because it was the first thing that came to my mind, but struggled with going forward. Then I lost it and I guess went back into normal sleep. I haven't managed to repeat the experience. Wish I had thought of something better than flying

If you were looking at this planet from a distance, you'd give a big swerve if you were in the neighborhood.

Oh god I hate it. Can't even make a peep or move - And I am totally awake and aware that I'm experiencing it.

Most people could do their days work in a few hours. Then just look at cat videos to kill time.

Why is she doing her yoga on the floor next to the spare yoga mat?

It's your lizard brain picking up signals your conscious brain is ignoring.

This is why I believe in God. Many of these reasons and many more past these. The science part can be deviated forever ( which I will happily do with anyone for any amount of time because I love talking bout this and all the strange hinge of universe). However, one cannot assume meaning ( individual or collective) without also assuming a God. Just like how money needs precious metal to back it up, meaning needs some authority behind it to be worth something. Otherwise meaning is simply an implied feature that has no effect on anything outside our perceived reality. So if you believe in meaning and purpose then you believe in some type of intelligent design. This doesn’t have to be a certain religion but it does mean you believe in some time of intelligent starts and sentient plan to the universe.

I believe you completely.