9:09pm May 9, 2013

What is strange.

Is that, as far as I can tell, my mother and I each think the other has a more severe version of whatever we have. I’ve always assumed whatever she has is more severe, but then she told me whatever I have is more severe, and now I’m confused.

(I’m talking about what my friend refers to as “the neuromuscular clusterfuck”, neither of us has a firm diagnosis but our symptoms are similar to each other and we are related so people are assuming it’s the same thing.)

I’m guessing what is going on, is that for each of us, seem symptoms are more severe and others are less severe. So it creates these illusions that one of us is, across the board, more severe than the other. That’s the only explanation I can work out that fits. Either that, or we each underestimate our own problems or overestimate the other one’s problems. Idk. It’s weird.

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