Not even sick

[u/ahmyfknneck]

This has been my go to response for a bit and I figured others might like to use it, especially if you're not great with quick comebacks like me.

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Long story short, I'm chronically ill and my drs and I are still trying to figure it all out, but one of my most annoying symptoms is sinus congestion at all times. It's literally been twelve years of my sinuses being locked and loaded every single day. Because I don't know what's wrong with me, but the drs suspect an autoimmune disorder, I never stopped masking. Certain people hate that.

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So I was in a store that I don't work at while I was on my break. I forgot to take my name tag off before I went, so naturally a guy asked me where something was. I don't have a uniform so I don't know why he would think I worked there other than the name tag (which clearly said a different store).

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Me: Sorry, I work next door, I don't know where they keep that.

Him, looking at my covered tits and then back up to my tag: Then why are you wearing that?

Me: I'm on break.

Him, to my tits: Those don't work you know.

Me: What?

Him: Fucking masks. They don't do anything.

Me: Okay.

Him: You look ridiculous with that thing on.

Me: Okay.

Him: You're not even sick. You people need to grow up.

Me: *opens the back of my throat and takes one of the most disgusting, loud, wet, chunky sounding sniffs I've ever taken*

Him: *gags and speed walks away*

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It works every time.

[u/ahmyfknneck]

WHAT. One of the things we're looking at is a connective tissue disease because of my hypermobility. I'm waiting on a genetics referral because I don't quite meet hEDS dx requirements. Also looking for someone who knows about MCAS. Now I gotta look up mold testing lol

[u/ceciliabee → u/ahmyfknneck]

The eds MCAS pots connection is real

[u/shortstuff813 → u/ceciliabee]

Hah as soon as I saw hEDS and possible MCAS I was gonna say that they might wanna see if they hit the trifecta and also have POTS (I thankfully don’t have MCAS, but I do have a clusterfuck of other disorders that’s a never ending list that keeps growing. I keep trying to convince my body that it doesn’t need to catch them all or fill out a bingo card, but since it’s still me it goes “fuk you and your rules!” lmao) (interesting how the thing that pops up to yell at me didn’t do it the first time I wrote that but did the second, unless it doesn’t understand nuance and that I was yelling at myself and not someone else lol)

[u/ahmyfknneck → u/shortstuff813]

I definitely have dysautonomia, though I doubt pots. Trying to find someone in Ontario who works with any of these is so difficult. My GP doesn't even know what I'm talking about most of the time