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Old 01-11-2012, 01:15 PM
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Attention What not to say.

I thought all the suggestions mentioned were great...Much better to consider from here than hearing them in real life.....It make me think about that over 6 ft man that cussed me out one morning after I pulled my car into the handicapped space....He happened to think I didn't look disabled even though I never even got out of my car....I suppose he had some pain and just couldn't legally park there himself and was upset to see that I could....I suppose that because I worked very hard at smiling, I must have somehow ruined his day, even though it was morning....So I happily replied how I felt sorry for his wife, should he be fortunate enough to have one....Cause he was a true dumb-azz in the sense of the word.....I have resembled all of those quotes typed at one time or another since my injury back in Aug of 07....That I did bring on myself as I was working....Working harder than the two other employees that were sitting on their hineys that very busy Monday morning.....Brought my life as I knew it to a screeching hault....And I became the literal pain in the azz your mothers always warned you about....And I've heard all those other quotes...Even the folks that would tend to go through the motions of " there by the grace of God go I" attitude have thrown a few at me a time or two.....Breaks my heart every time and they act like "what did I do"...When it upsets you....Christmas has passed and I took pleasure in wrapping some gifts for someone that is "helping" me....And wrapping those ackward gifts kicked me royally...Head to toe....And he said, "well you brought it all on yourself"....OMG...Thought I'd just shrink enough to totally disappear forever....Wish I had....Cause it's not getting any better in the world of those that are "helping" me.....The pretending period or the vacation period I used to call it when my son's were younger....Is only less than a month long, for adults too.....Please can't I just shrink enough to disappear, please.....The fires not burnt out of the RSD / CRPS I have to deal with...but the fires burnt out of this fireball......

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Originally Posted by JoanB View Post
Here on this thread http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread163083.html, a few of us were talking about people who are not as understanding as we'd like. Dr. Smith brought up the idea of a buisiness-sized card with a list of things not to say to us that you could hand out to them. I thought that it would be fun to compile a list just for it's own sake, and if some of the entries made it onto such a card, great. If not, it would still be gratifying. I'm sure that not all will universally applicable.

I'll start with some of my favorites:

Maybe if you just exercised more, you'd feel better.

It's all mind over matter, you know.

Have you tried compression socks? (I have PN in my feet--just kill me now!)



I know you all have some gems too--show us what you got!
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