I've had horrible experiences with being not-believed by doctors; strangers; friends...
I remember an airline attendant pushing my manual wheelchair trying to insist that I keep luggage on my lap, and when I told her "I can't do that, my physiotherapist says that it will badly aggravate my knee pain" she not-believed me and made a totally unnecessary fuss about it.
I actually cut ties with a friend because she not-believed me that fragrance eg perfume, spray on deodorant like Axe/Lynx/Rexona - gave me headaches and migraines.
"*I* don't get headaches and migraines from fragrance", she said in a tone of extreme disbelief."
Well, great for you. But humans are different from each other.
What made it worse was that she had chronic knee pain/knee injuries and an allergy to either peanuts or kidney beans [I forget which], so you would think that that would have made her more understanding. :/
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Date: 2019-06-23 05:30 am (UTC)I've had horrible experiences with being not-believed by doctors; strangers; friends...
I remember an airline attendant pushing my manual wheelchair trying to insist that I keep luggage on my lap, and when I told her "I can't do that, my physiotherapist says that it will badly aggravate my knee pain" she not-believed me and made a totally unnecessary fuss about it.
I actually cut ties with a friend because she not-believed me that fragrance eg perfume, spray on deodorant like Axe/Lynx/Rexona - gave me headaches and migraines.
"*I* don't get headaches and migraines from fragrance", she said in a tone of extreme disbelief."
Well, great for you. But humans are different from each other.
What made it worse was that she had chronic knee pain/knee injuries and an allergy to either peanuts or kidney beans [I forget which], so you would think that that would have made her more understanding. :/