Can I be sick by myself?
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You know this person...the one who, no matter what your symptoms are, has it just a little bit worse. You can't have a headache around him, because he has a migraine. You can't have a sore throat; he'll have strep. You can't have tummy troubles; he'll have explosive intestinal distress. I don't know if it's simple one-upmanship or some twisted form of empathy, I just know that once in a while I'd like to be able to have my symptoms to myself.When expressing the occasional monthly abdominal discomfort and being confronted with this strange "Me Too Iguana" behavior, my daughter has been known to ask, "oh...are you having your period too?"
by accidentaltourist in Six Words Questions on Nov 28, 2012 | 
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Wench says,
Ha! I like your daughter. My best friend is like this. I love her dearly and in some ways, she gets me like nobody else. But she does do the one upmanship. I have a son, she starts calling her rats 'the babies' and says oh yeah, she knows all about waking up in the middle of the night because sometimes her rats run out of water at scratch their bottle. Not the same as a crying baby, at all. Usually I let it slide. The one exception was when I found out that my dad was having an affair. I told her, because I didn't know who else to tell. Her response was that I would never know pain until my mom was crying on my shoulder because she told my dad to leave - and he did. I said, with the greatest of respect, never, ever tell me what I do and do not know about pain again.Dhani says,
('Off the record', ACIM reads: 'All sickness is a defense against the truth'.)