Quote Originally Posted by somnambulant View Post
I never said it was a military thing, but I dare you to walk into a PTSD inpatient ward at a VA hospital and tell those soldiers who have loaded their friends' dead bodies into bags that PTSD is a "joke" and they need to "grow up". I was not condoning fraud, or even defending OP for saying that she has it. I don't know her. She could be lying. That's not the point. The point is that you are claiming that it's not a disability because it doesn't affect YOU that way. It's not "the truth". It's you making a general statement (a very judgmental and offensive one) based on your personal experience. Your personal experience does not have anything to do with anyone else's PTSD. Is it wrong that people claim it when it's not true? Absolutely. But is it fair for you to say that people who suffer from PTSD -- people who really SUFFER -- need to 'grow up'? No, because brain injuries don't work that way.
I didn't get a chance to serve due to something as sad as hearing loss.
However you and yours are welcome to come to a BBQ and listen to some of the stories my chosen family tells of their times over seas.
And yes it sucks when I have to put a casket in the ground that weighs less that I know my friend did.
I don't post just to post. I live a real life and consist of more than you see here.
So before you ask me to do something somewhere, you should make sure that I haven't already been there and voiced my thoughts.
As far as being offended, Im sorry you feel that way but everything going on in life are not solely about you, including my thoughts.