Chipped Polish

I was just floating around, trying to… I’m not really sure. At any rate, I came across this forum thread wherein the original poster announced s/he believes her/his sister-in-law is a huge fraud. There were a lot of responses, but this is my favorite and I want to post it here for my own future reference.

Your first sentence was enough. Those of us who have to deal with Fibromyalgia everyday eventually just cut people like you out of our lives for good.

What makes you think she DOESN’T have it?
Why do you care what she does all day?

You say she uses it as an excuse not to get off her “big backside”. what is that all about? Are you perfect? Do you think if she weren’t big as you say she would feel better?
She is probably afraid to get up and do something because she knows it will cause her pain. Something that is simple and done without thought for others like, chopping vegetables, vacuuming, washing the floor etc. can put us into agony. We avoid it because we are in pain, then on a “good” day which some one else already described to you as horrible we have to decide if we should try to do something that could put us into bed and tears for a week or more or try to let it go and enjoy the fact that we can move around a bit.

usually out of guilt we choose to do whatever it is that needs to be done, Then when we can’t so much as walk from the bed to the bathroom without exrutiating pain and we can’t keep our eyes open yet we can’t sleep either We have to deal with someone like you who thinks we are lazy.

We are not lazy, we don’t want to sit home while everyone else is out and about, we don’t want to miss special events. We don’t want to have to ask you to help zipper the kids jackets because last night we made you dinner that involved chopping something and now our hands don’t work!

We learn to not make plans in advance so as not to dissapoint and if that’s not possible we either push it or we do dissapoint.

We cannot just live spontaniously-we must always consider what the price will be that we know we will have to pay for doing something you take for granted. We don’t WANT to dissapoint our children because we can’t help out in their class trip that we volunteered for a month ago because the day we said yes was “good” day. I could go on and on but hey it’s actually PAINFUL to type for this long. Dealing with attitudes such as your is also very painful. I really feel for your sister in law. I am so glad she is not married to you which brings me back to-What do you care? Really, if you can’t accept it, why not just leave her alone? You say you have a bad back? and you hate it when people say they do? We WISH we had a bad back and hate it when you think it can even compare. [kdel]

(I’ve cleaned up the paragraph structure a little to make it easier to read.)