"You are just so over-sensitive, and you've always been like that. Sometimes you just don't get our dark sense of humour."
*clap, clap*. In response to this I would have liked to have said "Well maybe you guys should all remember that I am sensitive and sometimes you guys take the jokes too far and upset me, and then don't apologise because you have classed what you said as a joke, thus invalidating my feelings completely because I should just learn to laugh at your pathetic and hurtful comments". In reality, I actually responded with "I don't care".
I would like to stop hearing the phrase "You are so skinny" and "You have lost so much weight". Yes, you can see what the stress is doing to me, and yes, funnily enough, when none of my clothes fit me and I can see myself in mirrors, I have noticed that too - you pointing it out to me every week won't make me suddenly put weight on. What kind of response do people expect when they say things like that? The inside of my cheek is going to be ruined from having to bite it so I don't snap at someone.
Another one you should never say is "Oh, you have PTSD, why is that then, did something happen to you as a child?". I have often wondered if military people are asked the same sorts of questions. Who thinks these sorts of things are appopriate things to ask, especially if they already know what PTSD is and the kind of things that cause it. I suppose in the end you should have a back-up answer if you ever feel brave enough to mention you have PTSD to a friend. (The friend who has little common sense and/or is nosey)
