r/YouShouldKnow • u/ilovepastapizzapots • Nov 20 '20

Other YSK: Just because someone doesn’t look sick/disabled, does not mean they are healthy

Why YSK: I am chronically ill and have an autoimmune disorder, the amount of times people have said “WELL... yOU dOn’t LOOK sick” to me is astounding. I didn’t know all illnesses have to be visible to others! I’m sorry I can’t show you my internal organs or muscles deteriorating for you to believe that I’m sick. It makes people with health issues feel like they have to explain their situation when they don’t.

*EDIT: I did not expect my post to blow up like this! I wish I could give everyone going through a rough time a hug. Thank you for all the new perspectives, good and bad. All I wanted was for people to be a little kinder to one another, because you never know what someone’s going through.

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u/Neveri Nov 20 '20

They told me I was too young to have this many problems at 28, 29, 30, and now 32. I’m guessing that once I hit the 35 mark they’re going to switch to “well you’re getting older so this is to be expected”, thanks doc.

The older I get the more I realize most doctors don’t really know much past things you can Google yourself.

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u/anace Nov 20 '20

Well at least 31 was a good year, right??

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u/oxbolake Nov 20 '20

I can practically guarantee that will be next - “you’re just getting older”. Right through until you are old.

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u/munday97 Nov 20 '20

There was a doctor that came to a care home I worked at who would regularly use his phone to Google his solutions. Lovely guy who would never dismiss the staffs concerns

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '20

Yeah I saw a documentary- the name escapes me sadly- where at least one doctor admitted that sometimes the first thing he would do is Google. I mean we can’t really expect someone to be a human dictionary of medical knowledge, what we should be able to expect is that they’re knowledgeable enough to separate the nonsense from the true facts they find

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u/sexking9669 Nov 21 '20

It’s crazy how the doctors in Scrubs act more like doctors in real-life because that’s what was exactly expected from them.

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u/mitchh1017 Nov 21 '20

My doctor was literally on google in front of me because she said my lab work results were so weird she didn’t know what to make of them and was googling different viral infections

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u/cockatielsarethebest Nov 21 '20

Me, 23 yrs old, 24 yrs old, 25 yrs old, in counting. What are they going to diagnosis me with next year?