Hey Pandas With A Disability Or Disorder, What’s The Worst Thing Someone Has Said To You About It? (Closed)

I have epilepsy :
- you are faking it
- weirdo
- stop it! (was having seizure)
- idiot/imbecile/mental
So happy there are more treatments and it's more understood now. Childhood was hard.

It's important to keep each grievance and minor slight alive, otherwise you might forgive, forget, and find happiness.

This isn't as bad as the others but i have anxiety (I'm not diagnosed btw but seriously I definitely have anxiety) and I can't order lunch at school because I'm too scared. My friend said "you better get food today" and called me a chicken. When I told her a mental health problem is not the same she said they were. I couldn't talk to that stupidity so I spoke to another friend group that day.

I developed a disability that affects my heart and lungs but can also affect cognition, vision, etc two years into working a job. My coworker (and only coworker on a team of two people) would call me demanding to know if I was healthy yet, why I was capable of doing some things but not others while I was still undergoing testing, would stand over me and berate me for being stupid, etc. The list goes on.

Well i have anxiety and asthma, and people say / stop faking it / oh suck it up / no one cares / your problems aren’t even that bad / why do you carry that stupid inhaler around.

I suffer from a range of mental disorders like Aspergers/Autism, Severe High Anxiety, Mild Paranoia, Severe Crippling Depression, ADHD, PTSD, Depersonalization Disorder, Psychosis and a few others but you get the picture. My family used to Gas-Light me by telling me I was being being “Over-dramatic” or that I was “Over-exaggerating” when I would talk about something. I was told often enough by my sister that she has Depression and she can work, why can’t I? She doesn’t believe I should be on Disability when I have difficulty even just feeding myself some days.

A lot of people assume I don’t have energy or do a whole lot because “I’m fat” but it’s because my Brain is so overloaded with all that nonsense and my physical disabilities that I just don’t have it in me to even chew food some days.

Illness in any form effects people differently. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean I can or that someone else can.

There are reasons for why people are the way they are or act the way they act. If you’re curious enough, ask and respect the answer. If you’re not, leave them alone and do your own thing instead of saying nasty comments and s**t.

I have Generalised Anxiety Disorder and I survived Anorexia.

Anxiety:
-You just use it to get out of class/I wish I had anxiety so I can get out of class any time I want
-Just calm down (I get this A LOT)
-Have you tried yoga? (Yes and it never works, Chloe.)
-Just take a deep breath in and out (I get the logic but this barely does anything)
-I get it, I always get anxiety before my exams (Valid, but I have a disorder. It doesn't just apply to certain situations)

Anorexia (Please know, these were from people who knew I had anorexia):
-I wish I had your willpower (It's got nothing to do with willpower, love)
-Just make sure you don't gain too much weight back
-I wish I had anorexia so I can get skinny (This one's honestly sad)
-I am so jealous of you! I can never be that committed!
-Why can't you just eat? (VERY common but it is seriously harmful)
-You should try intermittent fasting instead (Yes, lets replace restriction with restriction)
-Can you teach me? (This really saddened me to be honest)
-So you just throw up everything? (Actually, I never did that)
-Oh, so you think I'm fat? (No. Quite the opposite actually)

I think the worst overall was from a friend:
"Oh my god! We get it, you survived anorexia and have anxiety. Everyone has been anorexic and anxious at some point. You always think you are special, but you are not. So, stop being such an attention-seeker and just shut the f**k up."

Not a serious disorder or disability but I have a skin condition that makes my skin all bumpy. It's kind of like goosebumps but not really. Some people find it weird. One person touched my arm and was like,"Ew! Why is it like that?? Can you get them all removed?" Like no, I can't their is way too many and they don't bother me and you don't notice them for the most part. But like why would you say that? Lol not a real problem, just annoying.

I've got a variety of physical conditions and hands down, the worst thing anyone has ever said to me was, "You shouldn't breed." While my joint hypermobility is inherited, 90% of people who have my condition are pain free and don't suffer as I do from joint pain and dislocations, so chances are any kids I have will just be bendy and floppy.

Another bad one was that I'd never find someone who wanted to be with a "disabled person" (the words they used were far worse).

Jokes on them; I met a wonderful guy who understands everything I go through cause he's got the same disability. We got engaged last year and we're expecting our first child come November.

I've got a variety of physical conditions and hands down, the worst thing anyone has ever said to me was, "You shouldn't breed." While my joint hypermobility is inherited, 90% of people who have my condition are pain free and don't suffer as I do from joint pain and dislocations, so chances are any kids I have will just be bendy and floppy.

Another bad one was that I'd never find someone who wanted to be with a "disabled person" (the words they used were far worse).

Jokes on them; I met a wonderful guy who understands everything I go through cause he's got the same disability. We got engaged last year and we're expecting our first child come November.

I've got a variety of physical conditions and hands down, the worst thing anyone has ever said to me was, "You shouldn't breed." While my joint hypermobility is inherited, 90% of people who have my condition are pain free and don't suffer as I do from joint pain and dislocations, so chances are any kids I have will just be bendy and floppy.

Another bad one was that I'd never find someone who wanted to be with a "disabled person" (the words they used were far worse).

Jokes on them; I met a wonderful guy who understands everything I go through cause he's got the same disability. We got engaged last year and we're expecting our first child come November.

I'm epileptic. I also always wanted to have children, but couldn't. I was talking to a friend about this, and she said, "Well, all things considered, maybe it's just as well you couldn't have children."

I have a craniofacial deformity, and quite a lot of strangers think it is acceptable to come up to me and ask very invasive questions like if I was in an accident. I don’t mind if they’re polite, but most of the time it feels very judgmental. Also, lots of people have called me ugly ( both openly to my face, and behind my back).

anxiety and adhd......dont ask them if they have taken their medicine if they are acting normal and just wanting to have fun or tell them "oh get over it"

I have endometriosis and had to have a full hysterectomy a couple of years ago when I was in my mid thirties . My doctor (female) could not understand why I was upset for not being able to have children, I wasn’t married or had a boyfriend so what was the problem?! My colleague (female) told me that it was Gods way of saying that I would not be a good mother.

I have adhd extreme anxiety and depression.
Someone once said that I’m faking it for attention - 5/10 kinda hurt mad me mad
Someone said it’s all in my head - 8/10 that f****d me up I started overthinking and had a panic attack
Someone called me a freak- 3/10 meh it hurt a little but whatever
Someone said I was just crazy - 6/10 wtf bro why you gotta be like that?
There’s more but those ones are the first to come to mind

I have cerebral Palsy so when ever people do that weird hand jester at their chest

Rather mild but it still rankles, I missed work, where my daughter was my supervisor, due to a migraine headache. She said later, 'Mom's little headaches.'

Well, i have diabetes type 1 (with an insulin pump):

- But you're not fat!

- Ahw so you can't eat sugar! - yes i can and also: it's not only the sugars i have to pay attention* on it's also the carbohydrates which is in most foods and drinks

- (To my mum @ schoolyard): Sorry, but we won't invite your daughter to our party because we don't want any of the other kids get sick also - I was 10yo... wtf.. hurt as hell for both my parents and me.. The result was that none of the kids at school wanted to be near me after that insident

- That's your own fault because you ate too much sugar when you were a child - This is my favorite. Till this day (i am 31yo now) people are telling me this sh*t

* I can eat everything i want. Even the amount i want. I just have to compensate with my insulin :)

Autism, Complex PTSD....apparently my ex was the one who could “fix me”...umm I’m not broken..😕😕