lunnies:

stop ! telling ! chronically ! ill ! people! “at least it’s not cancer”

you are not reassuring me, and I know many others feel the same way

you are making me feel invalidated, that my complaints are unjustified, that I can’t complain about my own illness bc ‘other people have it worse’ 

suffering doesn’t need to be compared

illnesses are different. they don’t need to and can’t be compared

and stop implying that we should be happy and content that it’s not something worse. it feels a lot like you’re trying to silence us

and just because we don’t currently have cancer, doesn’t mean we can’t ever get it, or other horrible things, on top of all the horrible things we already deal with.
really awesome of you to throw that reminder in our faces