Do you ever encounter people who think that you should be unhappy because you have MS? Or those who tell you that you're better than you think you are?
I've had a few people comment that they're surprised at how well I deal with MS. It's probably because they assume I will inevitably end up in a wheelchair. When I tell people I have MS, they are shocked. They have no understanding of MS that doesn't look like Annette's MS.
It seems as though people without MS think that living with it would be impossible. And more, our society seems to view disability as the worse than death.
Of course there are others who think that any disability we do have could be overcome if we just tried hard enough, and we're just using MS as an excuse.
It's a ridiculous situation when the MS making us less unhappy than the attitude of others is. Find someone with MS and try to make them feel worse by marveling that they aren't miserable with such an awful fate or accusing them of not trying hard enough. Those seems like noble pursuits. 🤣
How is an MSer to win? 🙂
I've had a few people comment that they're surprised at how well I deal with MS. It's probably because they assume I will inevitably end up in a wheelchair. When I tell people I have MS, they are shocked. They have no understanding of MS that doesn't look like Annette's MS.
It seems as though people without MS think that living with it would be impossible. And more, our society seems to view disability as the worse than death.
Of course there are others who think that any disability we do have could be overcome if we just tried hard enough, and we're just using MS as an excuse.
It's a ridiculous situation when the MS making us less unhappy than the attitude of others is. Find someone with MS and try to make them feel worse by marveling that they aren't miserable with such an awful fate or accusing them of not trying hard enough. Those seems like noble pursuits. 🤣
How is an MSer to win? 🙂
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