Dear Rude People:

I would be giving looks or asking the office staff if they can remind people to use ear buds or headphones. Maybe it needs to be made into an office policy.

I get you!! It drives me nuts!

Major pet peeve of mine, along with people talking on speakerphone in public. 

In a confined space like that, I'd say something. Politely ask them to turn the volume down or use headphones. 

Back during the era of flip phones, I was in the grocery store and a woman was walking around shouting into her cell phone about some medical stuff we shouldn’t have been privy to. Some guy reached out and snapped it shut. And kept walking. 😂

Clearly hear?  or sound off completely?

I was waiting in a very crowded waiting room for blood work last week. There was a family with a brand new baby (like 2 weeks maybe) getting bloodwork because the screening in the hospital didn't have enough or was lost. Anyways, the new Mom and another mom were loudly sharing childbirth war stories...including details of tearing and wishing their doctor gave them a stitch so bedroom activities felt better later. That was a little TMI for me....and for the kids in the room.

Also the people who sit in the public restroom stalls on their phones. I just don’t understand why they can’t wait til their done.

Most of my medical providers have signs everywhere saying no phones in the waiting area. Then when you get in the exam room more signs.

So much this! Why in earth would someone not change that? 

Electric poptart....I'm dead! 🤣🤣🤣
Also, Jeffrey! You are my people.

I have extremely acute hearing, even at 64. You might even call it a heightened sensitivity and not in a good way. As a child and teenager I can remember screaming make it stop when people played a television, radio or a microphone on a podium was too loud. I didn’t date because I couldn’t handle loud noises well. I didn’t go to school games. I stayed the nerd girl because we were quiet and well mannered and “soft spoken” people. If I was sitting next to you and you so I WOULD hear it. I hear whispering across a room. I hear the conversations on the other ends of people’s phone—and I have taken to answering them because I can hear them! 

I don’t have a problem with people playing on their phones or texting—but for gods sake, turn the sound off.

with regards talk to the nursing staff scheduling the appointments for your son. They should be able to help accommodate a first thing in the morning or lady appointment of the day. When I work in the doctors offices, it wasn’t that hard to do.

I also hope you NEVER have anyone in your life that has Autism and stims by vocalizing and rocking and hand flapping and clapping because I feel really sorry for them.

I would have applauded him!




So many people are soooo oblivious and/or self-centered! HOW
can you talk about that so loudly, in public?


OMG, thank you for making me LOL!

And yet, I have a contact sensitivity also. Telling me to put on noise cancelling headphones is akin to asking me to fill my ears with red ants and cause me to itch and sweat and also want to scream. And that softness of texture is more than likely due to latex included in the converting which can cause severe blistering and anaphylaxis. But I am certain that might be fine since outwardly like many others, I appear not to have any disabilities, chronic health, immune diseases or anything that might need anyone to make adjustments for. 

I applaud you for taking very good care of your child but you must remember also that there are other people in this world and some day you may have use for them and if you treat everyone the way you have treated some on this board (yeah, I have read all your posts), I hope you they give you grace and lend that hand when you need it! 

You know pantsonfire, you’re not the only person in the world with medically demanding children. Hell, you’re not even the only person on this board with medically demanding children. I could give you a litany of woe about my own two - autistic DD with EDS and POTS who spent five years trying to destroy herself, and DS with severe ADHD and crippling treatment-resistant depression. Oh, and looking more and more likely to also have EDS. Every morning I wake up wondering if he’s hanged himself during the night because he can’t face another day of mental torture. And there are Peas with even worse situations. 

We know the struggles you go through. Let’s face it, you never lose an opportunity to tell us. And we know that your own health isn’t the best, because ditto. (Maybe while listing my kids' issues I should have included my own. I also have Ehlers Danlos, rheumatoid arthritis, hidradenitis suppurativa, depression, ongoing mobility issues from a brain haemorrhage three years ago. Etc, etc, etc). 

But your lack of grace, empathy and understanding towards others who also struggle is breathtakingly arrogant. It’s not a competition you know - just about every one of us is walking a difficult path. You have been shown an astounding amount of support from this board, but the way you repay that seems to be with whining, complaining and rudeness. The very rudeness this thread was started to vent about. Oh the irony.