Meirl
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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That reminds me of that one time when I, a 12 year old, pretended to have stomach pains to avoid going to school. My mom called my bluff, we went to a doctor where she called me a liar every few minutes (I was lying). The doctor couldn’t quite figure out what’s wrong with me, she oredered to USG my kidneys just to be sure and that’s how we found out I had kidney stones.
That was the last time my mom didn’t believe me when I said I felt sick and paradoxically it was one of a few times I did in fact lie about being sick.
“If you’re well enough to play video games you’re well enough to go to school” that phrase still makes my eye twitch
mom instantly: “I’ve got a bunch of tasks for you instead of just laughing around”
For some reason when I was growing up my parents would only let me stay home if I was throwing up. No other symptom mattered. Runny nose, cough Headache, Fever, Chills, Diarrhea, no missing school. And the rare times I was sick it was bed only, no tv, video games, books, nothing. No enjoying life until I felt better.
One time I begged to stay home because I felt so sick but I wasn’t throwing up so I didn’t get to stay home. I proceeded to vomit uncontrollably all over the back seat of my mom’s car. That smell never came out.
This is why you should cough after laughing
Showing any emotion is a threat
I was once told “if you can read you can go to school” Like oh, I’m sorry. I forgot that reading was the same as hours of schoolwork, running around all day and having to interact with other children who I’m 100% going to get sick as well.
The *instant* we said “I’m bored” we were whisked back to school.
That’s suspicious, we all have been living the same life really
Am I the only one who had a couple of free days during the school year.
My dad let me miss maybe 5 total during the year and I had to prove that It wasn’t an exam day or something.
My sibling had pain in their back and was derided by our stepfather for their pain, and said they were faking it or exaggerating.
Anyway after two weeks we found it was cancer so, listen to your kids even if they’re faking it (sibling definitely was not) just in case
I put on one of the best performances of my young life to get out of going to school. When they finally agreed, I immediately started singing James browns “I feel good now”. With the horns and everything. Nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh-nuh-nuh.
They took me to school an hour later.
I had pretty bad flu when I was about 10 and my mother gave me Christmas cards to deliver up and down the street which we had never done before or since I had to stop to sit down multiple times because I was so knackered and then threw up in the doorway when I got home.
“If you’re well enough to smile, you’re well enough to go to school and spread whatever illness you have to greater and greater numbers of students, faculty, and their respective families.”
It sucks because kids absolutely do lie about being sick, a lot. I did it, my siblings all did it.
But I used to get horrible migraines, and going to school with them was genuinely nightmarish. There was no way to convince my mom my migraine was real, because it was too easy to fake, and so my parents just gave me some tylenol and made me go.
I am not kidding when I say I would rather be stabbed in the ribs again than go to school with a migraine. You’re in insane pain, you cant see properly, you’re sense of balance and coordination is fucked, you’re nauseous and vomiting, everybody is looking at you like you’re crazy.
I remember throwing up before middle school one day and my mom still made me go. Fast forward to high school when I could drive myself and she couldn’t care less if I just didn’t feel like going.
I’ll never forget my dad telling me I was faking then on the way to school I projectile vomited all over him and his truck interior.
My mom would get suspicious if I looked too comfortable when I was sick. I JUST TOOK 1970s COUGH MEDICINE…OF COURSE I LOOK COMFORTABLE!!!
This is suspiciously energetic!
You can’t play video games if you’re sick.
“If you’re well enough to sit still and use a controller then you’re well enough to sit in school.”
Parents when you refused to go to school because you’re having a hard time catching your breath for a month at this point. I straight up refused to go to school. My mother threw a fit and said “Well you’re gonna spend the day at the doctor then” and then took me straight to the doctor’s office. Then the doctor had to tell my mother I was extremely sick, might need to be hospitalized due to one of the worst cases of pneumonia she had ever seen and if something like this ever happened again, she was going to call CPS on my mom.
I still haven’t let them live that one down.
Yes, so much fixation with school made me hate it. Kids deserve days off too.
One time I threw up at school when I was in elementary school. I told my grandma I wasn’t feeling well that morning and she told me I had to go. I wasn’t ever able to communicate my physical well-being without the first response being “Well you’re still going to school.” When she picked me up, she complained and bitched the whole drive home. She was very anal about me getting perfect attendance trophies in school.
Worse than this when you are faking sick is watching the clock thinking – Id be in lunch right now, I’d be in 7th period, I’d be on the bus – all the while not actually enjoying the day because of parents vibe like the meme, or having missed important shit in class that actually fucked you over more.
Still never stopped me from waking up with a bellyache couple times a yearÂ
In this thread: a lot of kids. Me: well aware kids will frequently pretend to be sick to avoid going to school.