Heh, I confounded everyone with my randomly wandering symptoms for 18 months (You're depressed! No. You're stressed! NO, BUT I'M GETTING THERE.) before I got a diagnosis (M.E./CFS), and it's still variable so I don't like to jump to conclusions too quickly about others either.
"But why are you dropping out? You don't sing with your knee."
Many things baffle me, but very few more than this type of response. How is it so hard to work out that we know our own limits, usually based on painful experience? Does it really seem more likely that we want to give up something that's either enjoyable, useful or damn near necessary for no reason, or maybe just to cause them inconvenience? One of the hardest things I've ever had to do was to admit I needed to stop working, and I had much the same response from my employers. It gets old fast.
BTW, I have finally worked out what the /network thing means, and I have it not, so shout up if you object to me adding or whatever it's called in these parts (god, I sound like my mother) but your posts look interesting so I will probably pop over at some point anyway.
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Re: Popping in from /network
Date: 2010-09-05 11:47 pm (UTC)"But why are you dropping out? You don't sing with your knee."
Many things baffle me, but very few more than this type of response. How is it so hard to work out that we know our own limits, usually based on painful experience? Does it really seem more likely that we want to give up something that's either enjoyable, useful or damn near necessary for no reason, or maybe just to cause them inconvenience? One of the hardest things I've ever had to do was to admit I needed to stop working, and I had much the same response from my employers. It gets old fast.
BTW, I have finally worked out what the /network thing means, and I have it not, so shout up if you object to me adding or whatever it's called in these parts (god, I sound like my mother) but your posts look interesting so I will probably pop over at some point anyway.