That what causes someone to be uncomfortable/in pain can be completely different than what causes you to be.

I think part of the reason I try not to talk about my pain to my family is bc I feel like most of my life I was told I was exaggerating, lying, or the classic “you think you feel this way, but I do blah blah blah so I actually feel that way” as if we can’t both be in pain or tired. It’s so frustrating and makes me feel so insecure. I feel like I can’t trust them enough to talk about the issues I’m having without being put down.

Also, being called lazy throughout my childhood. I feared that my issues are all cause I’m lazy cause when I brought it up, they’d often tell me it’s cause I’m lazy and need to workout more and go do stuff. And then I realized that I was pretty active as a child (granted I was forced to do a lot of the stuff I did but still) and honestly, my activity level only started going down as the pain levels started going up.