I've been having trouble feeling like there's any hope for me as someone poor with fibromyalgia from a young age. especially with the american economic climate. i've given up on ever owning a house, leaving the country, going to college, having any sort of career, etc. I'm only 25 but most of that has been spent fighting and suffering and having door after door close on me. I'm doing the best I've ever done and that means I'm still poor (working 8 hours a week), depressed, denied disability, college dropout, unable to support myself financially or physically, with little personal freedom, living in a tiny third floor apartment, thousands of miles from where I grew up through no choice of my own.
I also have social anxiety, and i've been trying to combat it, and get to know new people, and talk with them and coexist with them. but it starts hurting real fast when their life is so different from mine just because of what they've been able to do without a second thought. when they just bring up and take for granted things like houses, vacations, college. when I have to try to figure out some way to relate or otherwise explain I'll never be able to do anything like that without feeling pathetic.
I just wanted to hear how anyone else is doing. If anyone else has managed to build a life despite fibro. If anyone else is dealing with it in poverty. ways you relate to people with more opportunities. etc.
I also have social anxiety, and i've been trying to combat it, and get to know new people, and talk with them and coexist with them. but it starts hurting real fast when their life is so different from mine just because of what they've been able to do without a second thought. when they just bring up and take for granted things like houses, vacations, college. when I have to try to figure out some way to relate or otherwise explain I'll never be able to do anything like that without feeling pathetic.
I just wanted to hear how anyone else is doing. If anyone else has managed to build a life despite fibro. If anyone else is dealing with it in poverty. ways you relate to people with more opportunities. etc.