Redditor Tells Friend To Stop Using Her Symptoms As Her Own Just To Chase Clouts, Gets Called The AH

"After her symptoms mirrored mine so quickly, it was suspicious"

Maryjane

• Published in Interesting
• February 2, 2023

In autoimmune illnesses, the immune system attacks your body unintentionally. Normally, the immune system protects against viruses and germs.

It sends out an army of fighter cells to attack these foreign invaders as soon as it detects them. The immune system can typically distinguish between your own cells and foreign cells.

The immune system misidentifies a portion of your body, such as your joints or skin, when you have an autoimmune disease. Autoantibodies, which are proteins released by the body, assault these healthy cells.

The OP in today's AITA story lets us know that her friend, Janet, has had some sort of disability for over a decade now, the most prominent of which is an autoimmune disorder that causes chronic pain. The OP also noted that her friend is very prominent on social media and often discusses her disabilities very openly.

On the other hand, the OP does not, and we haven’t really discussed hers in length. The OP got afflicted by really bad pains in her hands due to her job.

She told Janet how badly things had gotten when she found herself physically incapable of using her left hand for the most basic of tasks. Less than 24 hours later, the OP went onto Janet's social media and found her crying to her followers about her own “chronic hand pain.”

How will this end? Find out as you read the full story below. 

And the story begins...

Janet is also very prominent on social media, and often discusses her disabilities very openly

At first, the didn’t think anything of it and answered her

She wrote back that the OP was an AH for suggesting she was doing that

The OP added this edit for more clarity

Here are some of the most upvoted comments from Redditors

People doing anything just to get attention

Some form of Munchausen's syndrome

Feed it to her followers

Time to find some new friends

Another Redditor suggesting that the OP's friend might Munchausen syndrome

This Redditor believes their comment might sound awful

She's munching your symptoms for internet sympathy

She has another friend who has an autoimmune disorder

She should be ashamed of herself

She will have to explain her terminal illness

This friend also stole very personal stories

She'd get a lot more attention then

People with genuine illnesses want to get a diagnosis

This has happened to this Redditor as well

Your friend is using you for her own gain

What this Redditor would do instead

Sounds like she has an attention addiction

It's misery every day even with medication

OP adds the final edit and update for her story

Women frequently experience fatigue and aches and pains from taking care of themselves and their families, as well as attempting to balance a social life and profession. But are these signs simply a result of living under stress, or may something more serious like an autoimmune disease be to blame?

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Maryjane