parent indenial about illnesses and disabilities.

(for this part, im talking about my father figure who brought me up)

so i have quite a few invisible illnesses and one visible disability. when i was first diagnosed with the first one, when i was 11 or 12, a birth defect in both my tibia bones, my dad didn’t believe us. i was literally so mad because you can see it because my tibias are bowed as shown in the picture (just a representation, for reference) and my legs have been like that obviously since birth so its mental that he thought it wasn’t real.

then in november i told my mum that i have had what i thought was anxiety, i had felt it since i was 10. we went to the doctors and i got diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder and social anxiety. guess what? my dad didn’t believe me. he kept forcing me to pay for stuff by myself in shops which is one of my biggest triggers.

(now im talking about my birth father and my father figure)

then in january i got diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome. my real dad, thought i was faking it to get out of school and said that its impossible because i sleep perfectly at his house.

my father figure said that my mum had just made it up to get more benefits, as now i am getting pip (health benefits) to help. i get £50 each week.

then to make matters worse, my 3 best friends also decided that i was faking all of this for attention, sympathy and to get out of school.

i feel like now i have no support network at all so im a bit lost and still getting used to everything. if anyone else has experienced anything like this, atleast im not alone :)