Chronic Health Conditions Discussion and Support

And in the next sentence, "brilliant" and "genius" in school.

Autoimmune diseases run in my mom's family. Mom had a dead thyroid (hashi's) starting at about age ten. That was during the 1930s.

Same thing happened to me. Mine died at about age ten. And I started taking Armour.

Grandmother was a bossy witch who had an overactive thyroid and was convinced we were all "lazy" because we slept till noon on Saturday. She lived in the country and thought we were supposed to get up at 6 in the morning and start doing those farm chores on that nonexistent farm, and start cooking for those farmhands. There was no farm there. She had three meals a day fixed, and roped all the girls into the kitchen, when the kitchen was not big enough for two people to work but she had to be sure and oppress the girls so they would grow up to wait on helpless men, like she did. There would be too many women in the kitchen scurrying and my mother would shriek at me when I escaped to the den. The men would be watching football on TV after meals. I asked my mother once why the men NEVER helped clean up or load the dishwasher. The answer I got was "Oh they're too OLD".

BULLSHIT.


She ran the place like a prison as far as food--3 meals a day at certain times. And if you got up in the morning to eat or use the bathroom, that was BAD. You were supposed to stay up, for what reason I could never figure out. I always went back to bed to sleep because I needed the rest and so did my parents.

It was traumatic being around crabby old people on weekends all the time. We never took vacations. Those were frivolous and for rich people.