Hey, can we quote that--pretty please?
Sushi
Er, quote it on what? I'm a little tired and guarded at the moment.
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Hey, can we quote that--pretty please?
Sushi
I totally get the part of having to explain again and again about my limitations..............there is only one person I know that I do not have to do that with.........that's pretty sad!@Rand56 -I don't think it's that I care about what people think about me. I think what bothers me is that I have to explain myself to people that I've already explained myself to. And...I will soon vaccilate!
And why do I have to explain myself, because they have forgotten that I don't get up early or because they assume that because they do that I should as well and I'm just tired of having to repeat it over and over.
Or who knows, maybe it is that I do care. Vaccilating! Maybe I just want to be understood and not to have to have it be asked of me all the time. Or for people to expect me to fit into a circle when I'm a square.
I think I do care and I don't care all in one. I know this, I've let people go for this reason. If I keep having to explain myself over and over again I just completely disengage. And when they reach out to me, I blow them off. Done.
Also, I have to add that I want people in my life. There are no Ill friends around me, in other words in my geographical situation. These friends I've had forever and I consider them good friends, they just don't get the sleeping aspect. And I'm not going to let them go that easily.
The one friend that I mentioned who wants to help me with jewelry, she has been there for me with my recent wrist surgery that I had. Sent me gifts has come over, took me out for a brunch one day because I wasn't getting out at all. I have to care about her because she is someone who is worthy of me caring for. So, she's not so easy to dismiss or let go of.
Good to be guarded on the internet! It is such a good phrase, I wanted to share it with some friends in private emails as I am also a late riser and I have other patient friends who are too. A little humor says it well.Er, quote it on what? I'm a little tired and guarded at the moment.
Private messages, sure!Good to be guarded on the internet! It is such a good phrase, I wanted to share it with some friends in private emails as I am also a late riser and I have other patient friends who are too. A little humor says it well.
Sushi
I have noticed this in online support groups. As we get tired we get zanier and zanier, and humour becomes the basis for everything.@Misfit Toy Strangely I get funnier when I am more tired and moody! I think my mind stops filtering out the sarcastic stuff and just lets it go
The point I'm trying to make is that she reveled in the fact that she had never experienced it and she also reveled in the fact that she would wake up at five in the morning and go to the gym.
She felt better of herself because she did these things that in her mind made her an exemplary person.
Whenever I would tell her I got up at noon she would say "oh, well I woke up 5 AM and then she would declare all the 500 things that she had done after she woke up like it was some brilliant parade.
Send in the clowns!
I now find it incredibly difficult to relate to healthy people as we have nothing in common (except for my husband and family.)
Am I being oversensitive? My friend who want to do something today just texted 'hey sleepyhead' at 10:30AM. I had a wretched night and was awake till after 5am due to magnesium problems so this is kind of hitting me the wrong way. Just not what I needed. What I needed was 4 more hours of sleep, not being teased about my need for sleep.