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Chronic Illness 2d
Having a conspiracy theorist anti-vax family member while also having a chronic illness is not for the weak
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Anonymous 2d

I’ve been told everything from “just stop taking your medication!! The doctors are paid to keep you sick!” to “you have epilepsy because you’re vaccinated” (I have medication resistant epilepsy meaning medication does lower the amount of seizures I have but I still have them lol)

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Anonymous 2d

I used to go to the dog park with a conspiracy theorist. I would invent wild conspiracy theories to out-crazy them. My favorite is that Big Dairy intentionally puts dairy in major bread brands and other foods that aren’t traditionally made with milk to keep people with allergies down. Something something government subsidies, government cheese. Then it morphed into RACISM (I’m Asian) because lactose intolerance/dairy allergies are more common amongst Asians, Latinos, and Ashkenazis.

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Anonymous 1d

My family swears up and down my medical issues are because of the J&J covid shot. All because I had a mystery illness during Covid that about killed me and seems to have been the catalyst for ruining my nervous system

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Anonymous 1d

This but im also a microbio major. 30 minutes into hanging out with my mom and she makes an antivax joke, like hello??

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2d

Going to add to this something about the government using ticks as a dispersal method in poor, rural communities cause I actually got my allergy from a tick the next time I see him

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1d

I’ve seen people genuinely believe tick borne illnesses like alpha gal are a government ploy for some shit (I stopped reading/listening by this point)

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1d

I’ve had people equate alpha gal to chronic Lyme. Which is so fun. So many people think I’m making it up because “how can you be allergic to hamburgers?” That’s not a medical argument! It would be such a dump play for the government because why subsidize the beef/dairy industry and then restrict the consumers? Not everything you don’t understand is a ploy!

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1d

Yup. I frequently say everything is a conspiracy when you don’t understand anything

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1d

I also have DRE😭 if my anti-vax family members said this to me I would hit them with “your husband was anti-vax and he met Jesus early bc of it”

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