Wife came home a little disgusted because several of the students she deals with used their conditions to get out of a major exam. Like I have said, she drives a bus full of students taking classes for ACC at a neighboring town. These girls were dancing and mingling and generally having a good time in the bus, until they got to their destination and then they all got serious when they started talking about an exam. Suddenly, one of them has fibromyalgia, and it started flaring up. Another has arthritis, and the other sciatica.
I could get into the whole fibromyalgia discussion as I have heard it explained over and over by Dr. Drew. It is not a real condition, it is usually in the person's head. Nothing has been found as the source of fibromyalgia pain, such as a bad organ. It is just a general feeling of hurting all over the body. I could wake up any day of the week, whine that my back hurts, my legs hurt, my shoulders hurt.... but no, as a contributing member of society, I put on my big boy undies and go on about my day. Arthritis is a real thing. Doctors can look at the joints and see degradation and so on, same with sciatica nerve pain, which is the long nerve running down the leg. Its pain is associated with problems in the spine. I personally call bullcrap. The odds of the three people reacting right at the same time, after they have been up all morning, rode a bus, then fifteen minutes before exam time, then they are all in trouble, is infinitely small. But do go on, this is a great strategy, "when the going gets tough, fake some pain." Words to live by.
About as bad as one of our old tenants who was nutty as the day is long. She had gotten her daughter diagnosed with something related to stress. The solution is she had a doctors note to carry a Chihuahua dog to help calm her. I told her, you are making your daughter a weak ass victim of life before she is even a teenager. Teach her to be strong, teach her to work through problems, uhh no. She will pet the doggie and instantly the grey clouds will disappear and life will turn around.
Doctors are scared shitless. Society let the lawyers win and now they control pretty much anything. If you are unhappy, sue. Doctors don't want that, so they cave. Lawyers could give a shit, they collect 15-30% of whatever you were whining about. All I see is more weakness invading our society. I read we are no longer number 1 as far as ranking the countries. How can we be? Half the parents want to protect their special children by labeling them special this and that, then society can't move forward if it somehow conflicts with that old book written a couple thousand years ago. What if Lord Of The Rings had been written two thousand years ago, and someone trying to collect a couple nickels swore it was true. Most simpletons would believe the one true ring was forged to control them all.
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