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My wife was so glad the other day when she told someone about me and they responded with: “Damn that sucks.”

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  • “So how many sick days you usually take per year?”

  • yes

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Oh just die already and stop bothering me with your problems…

is what I presume they are saying, whether they are aware of that or not.

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Well, they are wishing that to/for you, which is technically nice; but otoh I am also very aware that many people are just dropping it to get out asap. So hm.

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Well when you have a lifelong illness, it gets tiring real fast.

Imagine telling someone with an amputated arm “get better soon”. Same situation with telling someone with an incurable lifelong disease.

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I understand, my wife has a chronic illness and she gets this stuff often enough too.

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“When do you plan on getting a ‘real job’?”

When I won’t be fired for taking “too many sick days”, thanks.

(Hint: “too many sick days” = 3 - 4 max per year or so)

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That doesn’t sound legal… Also wouldn’t anyone get fired pretty much the moment they get ill?

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America!

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