#like. its common knowledge that the pain that comes with endo is on par with and often worse than birthing contractions

[the-casbah-way]

i feel like when you have a chronic illness everyone around you gets so used to seeing you deal with it that they assume you’re used to it too. like it feels as though there's this idea that you just cope and get on with it purely because you're used to it but in my experience pain and sickness don't really work that way. my symptoms hit just as hard now as they did twelve years ago when they first started and i think they'll feel that way forever. human bodies are quite literally not built to withstand that kind of pain on a daily basis, and being used to the fact it's going to happen to me isn't the same as being used to feeling that level of pain every day. but people around me will see me on a bad day and (rightly) be very concerned and ask what's wrong. and then as soon as i tell them that it's my chronic illness they have this kind of 'oh. right. it's just that' attitude and stop caring almost instantly. it's too high maintenance for them to care that much for that long, and they lose sympathy or patience really quickly after a because they can't seem to comprehend that it's always going to be excruciatingly painful even though i deal with it constantly