Tweet by unicornthorn "the idea that people are faking severe chronic illnesses en masse for attention is hilarious to me because anyone with severe chronic illnesses knows that you lose like 95-100% of your friends once you become too sick to fake being well 24/7
like yeah, people with ME and stuff totally get tons of attention, that's why everyone forgets we even exist because they never see us again when we disappear from public for the rest of our lives 🫠
fun fact: most of us fake being WELL when we want or need attention because no one gives a shit about you when you're sick
for those wondering, the trick to keeping 1-5% of your friends is to be friends with chronically ill people, they're generally the ones that stick around after you can't pretend anymore" What's wild is people in denial that this actually happens and we're just throwing a pity party. Friends and family quite LITERALLY abandon sick people ALL THE TIME bc it doesn't fit into their picture-perfect idea of how life is "supposed" to be.
#‘you’re just trying to get sympathy’ bro WHAT sympathy??#where???#if that was my goal then I probably would have given up after month 6#when I realized that the most I was gonna get#was people telling me that things can wait#‘until I get better’
^ For real
You can't even get employment when you're moderately chronically ill, let alone severely chronically ill, and you think we get any attention? Try socializing with no income and being dead to the system as well as having accessibility barriers all around even if you don't rely on things like mobility aids. Watch your social life evaporate in three seconds.
Even if we manage to physically drag ourselves out of bed and into social scenarios, able-bodied people find us silently repulsive and REALLY prefer to not have us around reminding them of the fragility of their own health with our mere presences. They find us very exasperating as well if we're experiencing brain fog (aka cognitive dysfunction from pain/fatigue/etc).
That's not even going into how even if none of the above applies to the like one or max two compassionate able-bodied people we're limited to know, they will still walk away from our lives sooner or later because they'll quickly realize that committing to us as either friends, lovers of close family will limit their own chances at socializing and experiencing life the way they want to.
If there's anyone out there faking a severe or even just moderate chronic illness, then they must have a very serious non-physical issue going on because there is NO benefit to gain from being in our positions. Closest to sincere compassion you'll ever get is the most revolting form of dehumanizing, aggressive pity you could imagine.
